I was wondering if there are best practices in Wordpress when its used as a CMS? I have seen tutorials on adding etra sidebars etc and they seem perfect for adding editable tag lines on sites but not really much larger than that. In the tutorials, I have seen people pasting many lines of HTML code into them with needed clases and everything else. Is that a bad bad idea, or is that done frequently?

 

Are there any other best practices with Wordpress or is it each to thier own?

Edited September 25, 201213 yr by Mr Ben

Just for your info... WordPress has a built in tag line tag.

If you go in to general settings you'll see the box to fill out (normally per-filled with "just another Wordpress blog". Fill that out with your tag line and use the following template part in your themes template file where you want it to appear...

 

<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>

Thanks for the reply.

 

I know about that, I was just using widgets as an example for sections that needed to be editable for a website for non web design/developer people.

 

Is it a acceptable to create a sidebar and text widget for put a large chunk of HTML in?

It's not ideal, but without looking at the requirements and where the large chunk of text is meant to display, I'd have trouble telling you what the best practice would be.