The ins and outs of using WordPress as a Content Management System. This includes plugins & themes development that support Custom-Post-Type, Custom-Taxonomy, modification on wp-admin and much more.
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Tips for using WordPress as a CMS? [closed]
I want to use WordPress as a CMS for a reasonably basic site rather than a blog. I have several pages and at the moment, I don't intend to have a "news" page.
While there are ways to make this work, ...
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Restricting Users to View Only Media Library Items They Have Uploaded?
I want users to be able to upload photos using add_cap('upload_files') but in their profile page, the Media Library shows every image that's been uploaded. How can I filter that so that they can only ...
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Is there anything that Joomla or Drupal can do that can't be done in WordPress? [closed]
I have a client who wants to use Joomla, because they were told it was good. I'm trying to convince them that WordPress is a much more user-friendly option.
I've played with Joomla (and Drupal) once ...
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Implementing a CrunchBase.com Clone using WordPress?
I wish to create something like CrunchBase.com
with WordPress.org (So to have one website that is a "database", and another one, which is a blog, that connects to it).
Is it possible? and how?
...
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Is there a way I can write a series in WordPress?
What I mean by series is like writing a book. A reader should be able to click on the book and then proceed to read the chapters. I can probably mimic it by creating a page and then linking it to a ...
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How to prevent a post from being deleted?
For auditing issue, I only want a post can be trashed, but not deleted - for all users.
So I have a plugin like
add_action('before_delete_post', function($id) {
wp_die(0);
});
But ...
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How do I represent 'chunks' of content within Wordpress?
I've only ever used wordpress as a self-hosted blogging platform - until now. I have a requirement to use it for a very basic CMS which will consist of ~ 10 pages, most of which will be static ...
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Any way to make posts inherit properties/taxonomies through a single assigned taxonomy
I want to have a central "data" sheet that is regularly drawn upon for types of posts that are submitted. Lets say I had a movie review site, but also want to let people post other info, like Trivia ...
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WordPress as a CMS Membership website
I am involved with several WordPress support websites including this one (recently). I seem to get the question "Can WordPress be used as a CMS/Membership Website?". I haven't needed to set one up, so ...
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How can I use WordPress as a job board ? (but free)
I wish to use WordPress installation for a job board. Looking online I found the following two posts that give a list of options:
http://www.wpmods.com/turn-wordpress-into-job-board/
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Can I use wordpress for a non-blog site?
I'm starting a website (more complicated than a blog) and would appreciate advice on which framework to use.
A person on my team uses wordpress and is enthusiastic about its possibilities, but a ...
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Using wordpress for a four-page website may be an overkill?
I have to set up a small website, it's a porfolio for a design company with just the standard sections: home, about us, services, portfolio and contact. That's it, no blog, no dynamic sections, no big ...
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Can I / Should I use WordPress as a CMS for my Flash application
I sometimes build applications in Flash for the web that need a fair bit of dynamic data. Would Wordpress be a good fit for my CMS solution? can it "talk" to flash? Does it allow output as different ...
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Stress testing WordPress
We are going to launch a community site with 100K posts, 100K comments, 10K terms, 5 users ( all admin/editorial), and approx 500K recs in the wp_postmeta.
Site may grow with a larger author base and ...
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how do I group content in magazine-style 'issues'?
I am building a website for a magazine. It won't carry the whole content of the mag, just a teaser article or two from each issue.
I need to have a page for each issue that features these articles, ...
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Using WordPress as piecemeal in existing site?
After some solid advice from people on here about using WordPress for a small (six page) website, I wanted to broach another question regarding using WordPress for a non-blogging site. Yet, I know my ...
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Multiple level category drop-down
I'm using WordPress as a CMS and would like to have categories selectable from multiple selections i.e <option>.
As a usage example, The first dropdown would contain parent categories. Then ...
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Sub-directory blog on a sub-domain WordPress network site
I have a WordPress Network install with the individual sites installed on subdomains.
example.com
a.example.com
b.example.com
I would now like to launch a blog on each of the sites. It'd like the ...
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WordPress product catalog site
I need to create an e-commerce site with WordPress, but not 100% e-commerce. It is just a catalog site without shopping cart. Users can see various products on the site, for example, car showcase ...
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Pods cms and “advanced custom fields” plugin
We are planning to build a quite big database to store data for our 5000 yearly subscribers association.
We were considering pods cms for our needs since it permits a good flexibility in building a ...
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Creating my own Admin Forms in a WordPress CMS?
I just decided to try using WordPress for a CMS (not a blog). The site will have some product information that I want the client to be able to update. Instead of creating an entire admin side just ...
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Can Wordpress realistically handle a site with 500 'pages'?
I'm building it from scratch and probably a 100 or so of those pages will be ecommerce.
I would like to create meaningful, normal looking permalinks for aesthetics and SEO.
I would really love to ...
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What is a good way to present templated content in WordPress?
I'd like to be able to add a template for a page that will present pages with similar data in the same style. For example, I want to be able to create a "Person Profile" template so that all personal ...
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Migrating from other CMS to WP - losing SEO juice?
I'm thinking about migrating a client's website from a super-old cms (xoops) to WP. However the site is quite old so I don't want him to lose any SEO juice he acquired through the years (PR: 2). ...
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Different number of posts in each category
I have categories driven site. I have different template for each category. I would like to set different number of posts – different for each category. Plus I would like to add proper previous and ...
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How to Use WordPress as Static CMS Without Blog Posts
I am very new to wordpress. I want to edit a wordpress theme and remove the blogpost area from it so it can be converted into a website. I also want to make some other changes.
How I am trying to do ...
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How can I make post fields required in Wordpress?
I am setting up a Wordpress site as a CMS and trying to figure out a way to make certain post fields "required" before an author can publish a post.
In particular, I want authors to be required to ...
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Wordpress CMS - hide content from public while in editing stages
I'm setting up a simple web site for a member of my family, using wordpress as a CMS. I've already registered a domain name and I'm about to set up wordpress. I want them to be able to edit the site ...
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How can I import users into WordPress?
I have a spreadsheet (XLS) of names, email addresses, and passwords from another content management system. Is there a way to import these folks as users (I think subscriber level, but some may be ...
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Minor css-change based on topmenu - how?
I want to make minor css-changes based on the choice of the top (root) menu.
What's the proper way to handle this in WP?
//edit//
It's a website (pages), no blog, and basically, the colors of some ...
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Putting main WordPress blog under a different folder name
I want to use WordPress primarily as a static page CMS for a small business site.
I want to use the "pages" feature for most of the pages on the site, except for a news blog, for which I want to use ...
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Style custom columns in admin panels (especially to adjust column cell widths)
I am using Wordpress as a CMS for a project which makes extensive use of custom post types. I need to display columns in admin panels for each custom post type in a different way.
I've already ...
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raw code vs wordpress
I am currently a CS student and an aspiring programmer/web developer. I am wondering whether it is worth taking the time to master html and css to make websites when CMS services/wysiwyg like ...
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Edit “thank you for creating with Wordpress” in version 3.3.1
Is there a way to edit the text "thank you for creating with Wordpress" in version 3.3.1 at the bottom of the CMS? If so what file do I need to edit?
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Convert link in Wordpress 3.2.1
How can I convert links (url displayed in the browser) from :
www.mywebsite.com/?p=13
to something like this :
www.mywebsite.com/title_of_the_topic
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Wordpress plugin for authoring technical documentation? [closed]
We'd like to use WordPress to author the technical documentation for our software product. We've used plain-old WordPress pages, arranged then hierarchically, and it works ok, but it's not great. The ...
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WordPress for a business catalog site
I am completely noob with WordPress so I apologize in advance if my questions sounds completely stupid.
Background
I have a small business catalog site that I wrote long ago in plain HTML. Now I ...
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Allow users to post to a certain category
I have a website running Wordpress.
I have lots of content, e.g. tutorials, and I made a new category on a separate page, so I don't have a lot of content there. I want users to be able to add ...
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Using the “Latest posts” feature on a different site
I want to display the "latest x posts", like you see per default on the index-page, but on a completely different site. E.g. /blog/
Installing WP into the directory /blog/ is not an option, as the ...
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Searching Only Blog Posts From a WordPress Site's Main Posts Page?
On my CMS-style setup, I have the standard search box which searches everything.
However, on my blog page, I would like to also have another search box which searches just the blog... is this ...
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Is there a plugin or simple way to add a multiple images metabox to a post?
I am looking for a way to create a custom field/metabox that allow to attach multiple and infinite images to a post. This would allow to create a custom post type for a portfolio and allow to attach ...
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Hide update messages from non-admin users?
Is it possible to hide the update messages for any users other than the main admin?
We use WP as a CMS for clients and it's a bit annoying that a normal user has to read something like:
WordPress ...
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Pull the content out of a page
I wanna pull the data from this area "see the red area on the image below"
Out to a specific template
I have a page template named page.php
<div class="contentholder">
<?php ...
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WordPress CMS Inquiry
I'm pretty familiar with WordPress and have used it on various projects both as a blog as well as a fully-functional CMS using custom post types, etc.
I am about to embark on a project for a client ...
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Anonymous Postings
This is a repost of a question asked on stackoverflow, and was referred to this site:
My client wants to create a form on his new WP site that when filled out and submitted will be submitted to his ...
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Custom post type content using custom fields without template
When I first heard about custom post types I thought it would solve an old "problem" I have, so I was thrilled.
But when I tried to setup something I couldn't achieve what I want.
So I'd like to know ...
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Advanced templating / Wordpress as a CMS questions
I have a Web site that consists of several pages, with different layouts, and also a blog.
I would like all these page to be editable through Wordpress, rather than having them as custom pages ...
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Creating a searchable A-Z listing of hundreds of companies/services
I am about to create a webbased guide. A guide that will list numerous of companies - their services, contact information and so on. And I need help coding this!
I am using Genesis News Child Theme ...
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How to set up an entity (post-type?) with many dependent entities (more post-types?)
I want the wordpress CMS to manage a new type of content called Athletes. The data structure for Athlete would be as follows:
Athlete.name
Athlete.date_of_birth
Athlete.profile
etc...
An athlete ...
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Multi-page posts: A subdirectory for each post?
I am using Wordpress as a CMS and would like to add a 'Learn More' page to each post that is created within a particular category. For example, when
http://www.mysite.com/cat/slug
is created, I ...
