I’ve learned a few thing in the time I’ve been using Wordpress as a web development tool. When I first started using it I was quite skeptical because I had been hand coding websites since around 1998. Anything that was in any sense WYSIWYG was in my day forbidden so like I said it was pretty difficult to make the change. But now that I’ve been using it for a few years I couldn’t be happier.
There are a few things you should know when getting started: Why not a top 1o list of the “top 10″ most important things you should consider when setting up a Wordpress website.
1. Consider how you want your site to be layed out? What I mean is, how do you want you content to be displayed? This is an important consideration and should probably be it’s own post but with wordpress you can either setup the foundation as “pages” or “categories” certain websites benefit more from pages and others from categories.
Think of pages as rock solid they are not dynamic and should be reserved for items such as “Contact us” About Us” etc. If you want the section to be dynamic use categories instead. This way you can dictate where each post will appear. That way when a category is clicked the posts under that category will be displayed. For example: If you have a section about say “How to Draw” You’ll create a category “How to draw” as an empty category under that you will have sub categories “Sketching” “Stipple” & “Crosshatch” You can accomplish this by using parents of categories. If you don’t have the ability to alter the code within wordpress simply choose a theme built to take advantage of the categories layout.
2. Choosing a Wordpress theme is more than just the colors and the simple look. It’s all about navigation.