Use Wordpress as CMS – Custom Template Page

Posted on August 25, 2008 Filed Under Wordpress 284 Comments

The well known blogging platform called Wordpress can be used as a full scale CMS to make wonderful websites of all types. Wordpress is not only a good platform for a blog. It works great as a CMS to create and manage many different kinds of unique web pages and site configurations as well.

The WP blogging platform can be used for niche websites, static page type web sites, sales copy letters, sales pitch opt in pages, business web sites, affiliate advertisements and more.

One of my favorite ways to use the power of wordpress is to use custom templates to make parts or pages of the web site unique. I will show you today how to use a page template as a custom template to make a page on Wordpress that can be totally custom. It can have its own characteristics and or features which can be totally different from the main front page of the website.

Here are just a few of the likely scenarios that could be made easily possible by using a custom page template with a new blog page.

Show a different page header on a page.
Want a custom sidebar to show content relevant to only that page.
Want no sidebar on the page, make the content full with.
Use custom css styles on one or more features on a custom page.
Want to have different fonts, text colors or title sizes on a page.
Would like to have the page layout or spacing formated different.
remove post titles and or date stamps from a post or letter on a page.

The first step is to create a template to use for the new custom page.

1. Login to your wordpress admin panel and in the Theme Editor section look for and click to open the Page Template file, this file is generally a ‘page.php’ or ’singlepage.php file.

2. Copy the code from the Page Template file and paste it in Notepad or a text editor on your local computer, place the code snippet below with your desired page name in the snippet at the top of that file and save it as a .php file with a unique name, like ‘custompage.php’ for an example.

<?php /* Template Name: Graphics Page
*/ ?>

3. Now, with the template code in the new file, upload this new file using ftp or cpanel manager to your installed wordpress theme folder.

4. This file should now be accessible and can be customised from inside your wordpress admin panel in the Theme Editor area you will see the new template file there with the name you gave to it in the top code snippet.

5. Assign a new page in wordpress to use this new custom template. Go to Write > Write Pa Template Setting Wordpress 2.6 ge and make a new page with your desired title. Now! In the lower section of the page editor look for a setting field called, “Page Template” and click on that and open the bar to select the new template there. The area and setting in wordpress 2.6 are shown on the image at the left and this is where you would need to select your new custom made template here in this field. Select the new template name and save the page with all your desired content added in to body of the page too of course. This links the new made page to the custom template we made.

6. Now, you can return to the Theme Editor section and select your custom pages templates and make edits to this page by using the custom template file. Sidebars can be removed, header added, page title erased, etc.

When the full capabilities of Wordpress are harnessed, the possibilities are endless. It is not only a good blogging platform, wordpress also makes full scale CMS applications that can serve many different purposes.

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284 Responses to “Use Wordpress as CMS – Custom Template Page”

Marwan on August 28th, 2008 2:39 am

It’s great post. Can you tell me deeply?

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pregnancy reply on April 15th, 2009 6:45 am:

Yep, great post.

More Wordpress posts please….

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Bobby on August 29th, 2008 2:40 am

I Agree with u

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membuat ebook reply on November 15th, 2009 8:15 pm:

I like to use wordpress very much, i usually build any site with wordpress, and thanks for nice tips about pages in wordpress.

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Scoliosis advice on September 6th, 2008 2:03 pm

You are absolutely right. custom templates makes parts or pages of the websites unique. Thanks for the tips and tricks you so kindly share.

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Italian recipes on September 8th, 2008 9:32 am

I agree with your all opinions given by you in your post.Thanks for discussing about.Waiting for your next post like this.

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European Toxic Clan on September 9th, 2008 11:47 pm

Im very new to the world of wordpress, this is a very insightful article, thanks for the share.

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TigerTom on September 15th, 2008 6:40 am

A nice alternative to WP is ‘Simple PHP Blog’ as it doesn’t ned a MySQL database, yet looks really professional.

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pregnancy reply on April 15th, 2009 5:03 am:

Not heard of Simple PHP blog, does it work by writing files then if it doesn’t use a DB?

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complains on September 15th, 2008 9:00 am

I am nor very good at coding but i have little knowledge. Can you tell me more deeply about this?
Thanks for this wonderful information.

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Bidet reply on July 19th, 2010 4:45 am:

The good thing about wordpress is that it does not require much coding, everything is there for you. Thats what a cms is for. It does everything for you with no need for coding.

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whitening on September 16th, 2008 5:24 am

I agree with you, wordpress is a wonderful platform that lets you make many different things. Custom templates, together with quality content, are the only things that make your site unique.

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houston apartments on September 26th, 2008 11:21 am

Wordpress is by far the best blog. Its easy to use and has a town of plug-ins. Don’t waste your time with any other blog

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Ryder reply on October 2nd, 2008 1:54 pm:

Yes, I love the versatility of wordpress.. I know for sure that I will not be using any others..

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robert on September 26th, 2008 11:23 am

I also use wordpress blogs on part of my site. And I use if for stand alone websites.

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Calabria Property reply on March 3rd, 2009 11:45 am:

I prefer Blogger.

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Sylvester on October 2nd, 2008 4:43 am

Hi,

That’s a great tip. I love the logic behind it.
I followed your tips and successfully upload the new file. Saved it as custompage.php. It shows up at the theme editor but when I go to Write/edit page,it does not show up under the Page Template.

What could have gone wrong? Should I named the file as a template …

This is what I add on top of my original page template html.

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Any advise is much appreciated.

Thanks and once again great post.

Sylvester

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Ryder reply on October 2nd, 2008 1:55 pm:

Sylvester,

Did you put this code at the top of your custompage.php file before any other page code?

<?php /* Template Name: New Custom Page
*/ ?>

Also how did you make the custompage.php file in what type of editor?

Make sure to use notepad and when save the file be sure to select “All files” as the Save as type when saving the file as a php file.

Let me know if still not working or post the code from the custompage.php here and I will help you.

Ryder

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Sylvester reply on October 2nd, 2008 6:59 pm:

Hi Ryder,

A very big thank you for posting a reply and your kind offer to help. That’s really appreciated.

I have got it all worked out already by rereading ypur suggestion and this reply again.

To all folks reading this, remember to keep the code, UNCHANGED except for the part that says “New Custom Page’ and save as custompage.php

Thanks again Ryder and I hope you will post more
tips like this for us newbies

What about setting a secure download page using WP?

Have a great day

Sylvester

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Ryder reply on October 2nd, 2008 10:08 pm:

Depends on what you are meaning by a secure page?

Do you mean like using SSL to encrypt any passed data? Or like a password protected page?

Could use a few ways. Could make a page as Private in WP and that way users have to register a name and login to see that page. Or could use .htaccess or a script to password protect that one page.
Sylvester on October 2nd, 2008 10:19 pm

Hi Ryder,

I was thinking more about the later..using htaccess or script to protect either a page or folder. Haven’t figure d out how to do that yet.

Second I was wondering how to use robot.txt to stop robots from indexing the page. I wanted to set up a download page without investing in softwares like DL Guard etc…

Thanks

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Ryder reply on October 2nd, 2008 11:20 pm:

Sylvester,

When a page is password protected or private the robots are blocked from crawling that page. So basically you will not need a robot.txt file unless that page is wanted to be regular open access but not crawled?

Also there is a password protect feature in wordpress. After you set up the page, than in the page editor, down in lower section, there is a field called “Password Protect This Page” where you can set a password that will be required to enter to view the content of that page.

Sounds like that would work good for what you have explained thus far.

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Sylvester reply on October 3rd, 2008 12:24 am:

That’s just perfect. Thanks for clearing up that for me.

Cheers… and do keep the good post coming.

Sylvester

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webmaster on October 5th, 2008 10:35 am

Thank you for the nice post. I liked also your theme colours.

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hardware on October 6th, 2008 7:36 am

Thank you for sharing the tip! Yes, Wordpress can be used as a full scale CMS and with great results, but in my opinion the best CMS in joomla

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Maria Etiketten reply on November 24th, 2008 2:19 pm:

Joomla is great but i find it much easier to make a custom template and a custom design in wordpress. And thats the most important part for a site in my opinion. The writing of the content can be easily done with a tool like LiveWriter that allows very easy WYSIWYG Editing (much better than TinyMCE)
And Wordpress has tons of interesting addons

Edited by Admin: Reason: Linked to no existing page!

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richard E utlities on October 7th, 2008 2:42 am

Ofcourse custom templates does gives a very unique attraction to your site. You have very well described how to add a custom template, A very good post.

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Busana Muslim on October 8th, 2008 2:00 am

nice tutorial..
Love wordpress…

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Do-Follow Blogs on October 8th, 2008 2:50 am

I’ve always been amazed as to how WordPress is free and yet made people hundreds of thousands of dollars. Another awesome thing about WordPress, is how customizable it can be if you know how.

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Ryder reply on October 8th, 2008 12:48 pm:

Yes it is great how readily the wordpress platform can be customized and made unique or personalized to each and every persons own site.. It is truly an awesome application.

Wordpress and GNU open source software rules.

Thanks all for the comments and the visit..

Ryder

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Free Proxy on October 13th, 2008 12:22 pm

Yeah!! you are right. I agree with your all opinions given by you in your post. Without word press how can i find my address. Anyway this helps the new comer as i think. Thanks for sharing this in your post with us.

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seo service consultation guy on October 14th, 2008 5:39 am

should check out modx. good for SEO. i am running it on my page

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AJP on October 14th, 2008 9:53 am

I am a big fan of wordpress. It’s VERY easy to use and I see where you can use the templating to make it do just about anything for managing pages. My frustration is dealing with the “well… what you want to use is blogging software not a CMS”…. I’ve recently had wordpress shot down for that reason for a project. Maybe I should follow your how to on templating and make a site that doesn’t look like it could possibly be run by “blogging” software as a demo…..

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Beauty on October 16th, 2008 2:17 am

WP is my favorite CMS. thx for some new information

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Bethany Gifted on October 21st, 2008 6:42 am

I’ve never used Word Press before, never even heard of it, a few programes in the past have been a bit bobbins whereas this sounds quite good

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KeeKee on October 22nd, 2008 6:22 am

Thanks for opening my eyes to the possibilities. I’m sort of new to all of this and enjoying it more and more as I learn more and more. Thanks for the info. Keep up the good work.

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Ryder reply on October 27th, 2008 12:26 am:

Hello KeeKee,

Thanks for the comment. Yea.. wordpress blogs are great fun. I have been at it for a few years now and still learning new things all the time.. I say, stay at it and little by little learn the ropes and one day you may wake up as the next pro blogger.. LOL

Have fun!
Ryder

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Wordpress Themes on October 24th, 2008 12:03 am

Wordpress Themes…

I have been using WordPress for about 2 years now. All this time, I left it to WordPress default settings to get my latest blog post updated with the major blog directories and blog search engines….
Internet Cafe Software on October 24th, 2008 2:51 am

It’s your encouragement that make us appreciate and more than a little appropriate after reading this article doing in blog. :wink:

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Ryder reply on October 27th, 2008 12:21 am:

Thanks for coming by and the nice comment.

Have Fun!
Ryder

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Dexter | Tech At Hand Dot Net on October 26th, 2008 10:08 pm

HHmm I just read a post similar to this.. I think they based their post from here.. Anyway you may it first based on your date

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Ryder reply on October 27th, 2008 12:19 am:

Hello Dexter,

Thanks for dropping by my site and for your comment. So was the other post you read copied word for word? Or was it just similar to mine?

If it was word for word? I will want to ask them to remove it! Because, I would rather not have any dup content out there of my own words and site.

I write all my own content on this site and have worked to have some PR finally. I would rather not give google any reason to shrink my page rank..

Please let me know of this post, especially if in fact, is an exact copy of words.

You can use my contact page form too if you would rather not post the page link publicly.

Thanks again,
Ryder

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Erik Z on November 1st, 2008 5:52 pm

Wordpress is a great CMS, the static urls and sweet looking templates are a gift from God. Not many other cms have such great features. Joomla is another one, but it’s not as easy as Wordpress. I use WP for just about every site I have made. It has paid off in the long run!

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Cars for sale on November 6th, 2008 11:58 pm

Great enlightenment, was really informative and also quite irresistible so much so that i ll use it right away and try and experiment with it.

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Jaime Juarez on November 12th, 2008 4:11 pm

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Photoshop templates on November 16th, 2008 9:11 pm

Its really nice to use wordpress as CMS and it really helps as its really user friendly. Thanks for sharing.

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martn on November 17th, 2008 1:47 pm

Thats a great tip thats, i’m not massively good with code however this looks easy to do, i think i might try to some of this stuff out.

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Joe Program on November 19th, 2008 3:34 am

Interesting that the main power of WP is widely stated to be the fact it is used so much and therefore there is so much help-information and already written code.

But the feature you are highlighting is the ability to write raw code. More akin to the advantages of having access to creating php source.

Edited by Admin: Reason: Link not google indexed!

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Web Hosting Review on November 27th, 2008 11:43 pm

I had never try using a selecting custom page themes but this sound extremely cool. What I like the most with the new WP is that its power to embed custom field ‘KEY’ into your individual post – with such feature I can create a thumbnail for each of my post and thus creating better outlook and designs for my blog.

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Joomla Template on December 2nd, 2008 1:51 pm

Great write up. I’ve personally only worked with Joomla bc I wasn’t sure how to correctly modify my own page templates. Time to start working on my WP site that I have! Thanks

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Perder Barriga on December 8th, 2008 5:51 pm

Thanks for these tips! I was wondering if there is an option do do both? I mean having a static page, and then under the static page having the 10 posts like a blog?

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Ryder reply on December 9th, 2008 4:08 pm:

Hi Perder,

If you mean have like a static front page and the blog page with the posts on it as a sub-page? Yes! This is totally possible.

I have made many WP sites that way for clients. It can be done by setting up the front page of the site as a static page and making another intended page to hold the blog posts.

Thanks for viewing my blog and leaving a comment.
Ryder

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Natural Care on December 11th, 2008 12:38 pm

Hey Ryder,

I think Perder was asking if it was possible to have a static front page, with the exception of one area that pulls in 10 blog posts at the bottom of that static page. I’m curious about this as well as I’d like to have a front page that is 98% static with the exception of one or two boxes that pull in my blog postings. Any suggestions?

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Ryder reply on December 12th, 2008 1:29 am:

Hello,

Yep that could easily be done. First identify what template file it is that controls the main blog page. Than just add in and style the static content right above the call to the post heading permalink tag. Looks something like this:

< ?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

On many themes the blog page is controlled by a file called home.php or the index.php file known as Main Template Index file.

Some new themes use a file called blog.php or blogpage.php to control the blog posts page.

If it were me doing this I would make a new < div > container and css rules for my static content. This way it could be individually styled with a unique (id) and will not cause issues with any other page elements.

Have a lot of fun!
Ryder

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niroshan on December 21st, 2008 2:56 am

thanx i also use wordpress

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Free Wii on December 21st, 2008 6:30 am

Thanks a lot for this information, I’m in the process of actually trying to make my own blog at the minute on my website, but I’m just trying to pin point what exactly the blog is going to be about!

Thanks a lot

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Real estate investments on December 26th, 2008 4:32 am

Awesome Tutorial

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webmaster on December 28th, 2008 3:42 pm

thanks for these wonderful tips…

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sabiq on January 1st, 2009 2:11 pm

i just use blogpsot..T_T

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Moon on Music on January 2nd, 2009 11:59 am

as usual. a great post. thnx for it.

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Business Website Templates on January 5th, 2009 11:08 pm

Yes you are perfectly right and WP is one of the best CMS i have ever came across. Easy to use and navigate around.

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Frontpage Templates on January 13th, 2009 4:28 am

I’ve seen a lot of themes for WordPress this last year that are perfect layouts for CMS. Joomla is nice, but loads waaaaay too slow for me. I think using WordPress for content management is the way to go.

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Jake Brumble (watchesjewelry.org) on January 18th, 2009 11:59 am

I wanted a different more magazine look, ended up using a theme recommended by wordpress pros: mimbo2.2 I’m a relative wordpress novice, but managed to get it going.
Since this theme was designed wordpress has removed the category id code display. You need to patch in the categories into the php code, addeing the “Reveal IDs for WP Admin” plugin solves this.
Also pasted a bit of code to make the image positioning within posts conform to the newer wordpress image location options.

Edited by Admin: Reason: Link URL is not google indexed, link removed!

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Ryder reply on January 21st, 2009 4:03 am:

Jake Brumble,

Thanks for your comment, however I have removed the link to your site.. I only allow or link to sites that are in the google index. I realize your site may still be new.. However I will not link to sites that are not in the index! Once the site is listed you are welcome to come back and leave another comment with the link or let me know and I will re activate the link in this comment.

Yes I have previously used the “Reveal IDs” plugin to see the categories ID numbers… however now I just hover over the category names in the admin panel to get the ID numbers.. The ID’s can be shown by hovering over the names and looking at the status bar.

Ryder

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FX on January 18th, 2009 6:20 pm

Word press has its advantages, but it is not quit as easy to use for new comers as experienced users make it out to be. It takes some time to get used to.

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epos on January 19th, 2009 2:58 am

Thanks for the post, I am just about to implement Wordpress on our site. This post really helped me out. Thanks.

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Web Templates on January 27th, 2009 4:43 am

I totally agree with you. WP is so amazing that the possibilities seems endless. What I like on the CMS is that its simple and keep on updating. It might come a time that every single website on the web will use WP as their platform.

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Goji on January 27th, 2009 5:27 am

Good post. I am totally hooked on wordpress. Some things could be improved thiough, butoverall it´s great.

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School Proxy Blog on January 29th, 2009 2:26 pm

I was using Blogger for 2 years. I liked it because of simlicity. I didn’t know anything about programming then. Later I was needed to implement some features to my blogs and I wanted cool themes too. I’ve sawn It was hard. So I’ve decided to move to other platform. I tried lots of platforms but I like WordPress. I like it because of lots of themes and extensions over the internet. I like it because it very flexible and SEO-friendly.
Now I’m gonna use it for my future blogs. All of them.

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Trade Credit on January 29th, 2009 8:20 pm

Great tutorial. loved it And yes, as all mentioned, WP is simply awesome. I don’t think anything can beat it. It’s plug-in support and themes are the best. I migrated to WP from blogger and it was the best decision I made.

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search engine submissions on January 31st, 2009 3:35 pm

I am a newbie and this post is very useful for me.

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Stacy @ Local Florists on February 2nd, 2009 11:41 pm

Great post. I’m quite new to WP. been using blogger for the past few years and moved to WP for its versatility and flexibility. And it has never let me down. Love WP now. The article helped me a lot about understanding CMS in WP. Thanks. Cheers

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Tina @ Low Book Sales on February 3rd, 2009 10:05 am

Great post. Very useful. Wordpress offers us a lot. Custom templates and themes they can really make a site unique and stand out from the rest. Thanks for the tips.

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Raphael on February 3rd, 2009 3:41 pm

great tip admin .I use joomla on all my sites ,but is much easier to make a custom template in wordpress.

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Vinh Nguyen on February 4th, 2009 4:02 pm

Great post… this wold allow to create custom landing pages to be used for example in PPC.

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offshore development on February 5th, 2009 2:59 am

In wordpress every thing is good but i found difficulty in adding java scripts or external HTML.
Help…

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Ryder reply on February 5th, 2009 9:09 am:

Hello offshore development,

Where are you wanting to include javascript? In an actual post or in a template file?

It is easy to add scripts in to template files.. But not so easy to place in to posts.

For in the template file this can be done rather easy.. Just have to use absolute paths for the link codes.

Or use one of the canned in wordpress defined link paths.. For example here are a few defined paths can use.

< a href= "< ? php echo get_settings('home'); ? >">Home

That above links (remove spaces) to root of site.

Could link to another page in the site by using that plus adding the tail of the url like:

< a href= "< ? php echo get_settings('home'); ? >"/newpage/" title="New Page">New Page

Here are some other ways to get the paths for images and including files:

< img src= "< ? php bloginfo('template_url'); ? >/images/cool.gif" alt="Cool Picture" />

That is a defined path to template folder. Just add file names (and remove all spaces) to end of that call for what ever file you need.

I mostly use script calls in template files and or between posts in template files. If you are wanting to call scripts from in posts? Here is some tips to help you do that.

WordPress Codex

Have fun!
Ryder

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Sue on February 9th, 2009 8:51 pm

I am looking forward to using this in my ppc program. Thanks a million.

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Kirsten Mason on February 14th, 2009 6:22 pm

Thanks for the tutorial. I love WordPress!

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Kansas on February 18th, 2009 8:41 am

After reading your post. I shifted to wordpress and now I do not think that I will regrets about this one.

Whole credit goes to you …

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Ryder reply on February 18th, 2009 10:19 pm:

Kansas,

Yea, good move! You will not regret it.. Wordpress is the bestest as far as I am concerned… LOL

Thanks for the return inspiration and glad I helped you to discover a great application to make wonderful websites.

Let me know how your web development endeavors go.

Ryder

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Blacky on February 18th, 2009 3:18 pm

thanks for the informations.. i will test it now

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Web application design on February 20th, 2009 5:11 am

I use wordpress for my personal blog.
But I never tried to work with custom templates.
Thanks for your article. It’s interesting and I know for sure I’ll try to make some experiments now.

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Curt on February 23rd, 2009 2:48 am

thanks man i did not know that custom templates can be made that easily. i have spended thousands of dollar for making custom templates. whatever you have given a very effective piece of information. this will help me a lot.

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Kawasaki motorcycles on February 24th, 2009 1:23 am

Gr8 Post
I agree with your all opinions given by you in your post..Thanks for talking about…
want say dis dat,Wordpress is by far the best blog. Its easy to use and has a town of plug-ins. Don’t waste your time with any other blog…I also use wordpress blogs on part of my site.

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advanced excel training on February 24th, 2009 8:18 pm

I agree, wordpress really is the best CMS out there. great post!

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discount Sunglasses on February 25th, 2009 5:59 am

While it is true that you can use Wordpress for a full-scale CMS, I still believe Joomla is the way to go. A massive CMS can also be accomplished using Drupal, which is used by one of UN’s sites.

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cheap site hosting on February 25th, 2009 10:36 am

Ive always wanted to create a blog site that is different or beyond normal. after reading your post, customizing seems easy.

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BSW Bolts on February 27th, 2009 7:02 am

I’ve just followed a tutorial & created a custom Wordpress theme to integrate a blog into my sites.

I’m a big fan of Wordpress – it’s so customisable and our News pages are now much easier to update.

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laminator on March 2nd, 2009 10:55 am

Thanks for sharing. I never thought of using Wordpress for anything other than blogging.

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Calabria Property on March 3rd, 2009 11:47 am

Interesting stuff.

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Used Tires on March 3rd, 2009 8:24 pm

Hi Ryder, I made use of this for customizing a search page on a wordpress based website I have

Till then,

Jean

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Ryder reply on March 3rd, 2009 9:06 pm:

Hi Jean,

Yes Kool, I dig templates and have used this technique for making many, many trick custom pages on wordpress sites.

On one site I developed, the whole site is actually like three completely different sites, including a full membership and sign up site, all under the one same WP engine. It makes it nice to login only one time and control 10 different aspects of things going on.

I also used this same principle to make my logo page on this site. To make the page have one sidebar only!

Thanks for the feed back. Always nice to hear.

Ryder

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Discount ipods on March 5th, 2009 10:17 am

I really love the wordpress format and template for blogs and regular sites. Everyone I know uses wordpress.

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Calabria property management on March 6th, 2009 1:56 pm

Wordpress is cool, I just find it more difficult to navigate than blogger.

I can see how cool the results you can achieve though.

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Buying Property Calabria on March 6th, 2009 1:58 pm

The sheer quality of Plug-ins on Wordpress is amazing, I think I need a tutorial on whats what!

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Krakow Tours on March 7th, 2009 4:57 am

I used to use wordpress on a blog that I started for my family and it rocked! Until I forgot to renew my domain and it was bought by some dodgy domainers who then wanted to sell it back to me at an outrageous price!

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Web Design on March 8th, 2009 3:49 am

custom templates is just great. Wordpress rules in blogging stuff. Nice article, informative. Thanks for sharing your views.

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cms on March 9th, 2009 11:09 pm

It Is really fine thing! Thanks For this useful blog.

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Chuck Horton on March 10th, 2009 11:40 am

My Wordpress site is configured to have a static front page and posts page. The front page works fine. The page posts does not use the selected template. I followed the Wordpress.tv video on doing this. The sidebar is missing and the formating is not correct. I have created 2 min screencast of how I configured Wordpress and then show the problem at http://screencast.com/t/ficQXdFjwx . Any ideas on how to fix?

Thanks, Chuck

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Ryder reply on March 10th, 2009 8:35 pm:

Hello Chuck Horton,

Hey nice video.. if I tell you what is wrong can I get my own copy of the screen capture video software? LOL

Well I tell ya! I can see exactly what is wrong there..

The reason why you are seeing the sidebar on the one link is because that is a category link and category pages use the archive.php template.

The link in your video with sidebar looks like this hware.com/category/blog and that tells me is a category.

So therefore, the two pages, blog page and the link you show with sidebar are in fact not using the same temp!

What you need to do is open up the archive.php and you will see what I am meaning. And what you might need to do is make a new template that is a combination of the archive and the default template and use that and assign it to your blog page. The default template is usually page.php, or index.php or home.php.

Another option that would work would be to copy the template, that was hacked, to make the static front page the way it is. Than with a copy of it as it is! Change it, place back in the original the exact way it was before it was hacked.. Than make a template out of the hacked version and assign that hacked version template to the front page.

Let me know your progress or what you find and thanks for dropping in and showing me your video… I really like that video capture set up there, it looks sharp.

Also as always, I am available for hire and could fix this issue in a jiffy for you for a reasonable fee.. I fix things just like that on almost an hourly basis.

^^^ Just mentioned in case you do not feel like diving in to the template your self.

Have a lot of fun!
Ryder

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For the past few months I was searching for resources on using wordpress as a CMS. Hope this post will help me a lot. Thank you

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what a great post, i like it

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i will to try..

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interesting. Wordpress is certainly really wonderful CMS. The ability and the capability of it is endless. Thanks a lot for the information. Cheers

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Wordpress is truly an awesome piece of software. I have used it many times. Thanks for this post, very interesting.

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Thanks for the information. I’m new to wordpress and the information you provided is really useful and I have to admit, wordpress is so much better than blogger. Been regretting for not moving to wordpress earlier. Thanks again.

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KC Kudra on April 1st, 2009 11:05 am

I want to thank you for this great post on a problem I think many could use this solution too. I recently had to add a couple special pages to a few of my blogs and they had special call for custom elements that had to be on all my other pages but not these.

This worked wonderfully to solve the problem.

Thanks,

KC

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how to build muscle fast on April 2nd, 2009 12:22 pm

I use wordpress as a cms on a lot of sites but never knew how to make a totally custom page. Thanks for the tips.

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Gry dla Dzieci on April 7th, 2009 1:57 am

Wordpress amazes me every day. The ammount of stuff you can do with this platform is amazing, you just need the right idea and you’ll probably be able to execute it in WP.

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Ryder reply on April 7th, 2009 4:09 pm:

Hello Gry dla Dzieci,

Yea, wordpress and the open source movement in general is awesome, I love working with open source applications. The sky is really the limit and like you say, just an idea for a spark is all it takes and some really cool sites can be created. Thanks for stopping by here and making some great comments.

Ryder

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Jill on April 13th, 2009 8:16 pm

Hi Ryder,
If you have your WordPress site set to display a static page as the home page, then you need to create and select a page to display your blog posts. Do I understand this correctly?

So let’s say I have it set this way, and have it set so that News is a page that is supposed to display my blog posts. Is there any reason why I couldn’t therefore, use a custom template for the News page?

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Ryder reply on April 13th, 2009 9:31 pm:

Hi Jill,

Thanks for your question. You have brought up an interesting angle there and it would depend somewhat on how much customization you are wanting on the post page and the way your theme uses templates by default? Like does it have a singlepage.php template, home.php template, and singlepost.php template? Or some basic themes just use the index.php for default.. First of all, yes! When you make a WP site with static front page, you will need to make a page for the static front page and a page for the blog (posts) page and assign those as such positions in the Settings > Reading area.

Now the posts page will by default be using the “Default template” of the blog and the home page will be using the default singlepage.php template, so you need to decide what sections you need to customize? It may actually be easer to assign the static front page to a custom template, (copy single page and make a template) and add changes there and assign template to home page. And for your posts page make any custom changes you want for the post page to the default templates, which is probably home.php or index.php and also singlepost.php.

What you ask could essentially be done, as long as the post loop is included in the custom template for the post page. However it may be easier in your case to just add the custom changes to the templates already set by default for the post page. It will mostly just depend on how your theme uses templates by default and in what areas you want to make custom changes.

Let me know how it goes or more questions and I will do my best to help.

Ryder

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Austin Lofts on April 16th, 2009 7:16 pm

Good stuff! These are some great tips. I just started a blog for my website using wordpress therefore I’m still trouble shooting some issues. Nonetheless, thanks for the post.

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Congratulations!

This tips is very useful. We work with wordpress a long time and we know how it could be helpful!

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Thanks for the great tutorial. I always wanted the ability to make custom pages for specific posts. I knew i COULD i just never knew HOW. Thanks again!

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Water Treat on April 29th, 2009 4:11 am

Using wordpress not for blogging, hmm? That’s something new for me! Where can I find examples?

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Stags Krakow on April 29th, 2009 4:18 am

I don’t think it’s good to use WP as a sales page. It’s a blogging software, don’t forget it!

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Ryder reply on May 3rd, 2009 1:45 am:

Stags Krakow,

We are all entitled to our own opinion on the subject. And I appreciate your input. However I have already forgot a long time ago that “WP was just for blogs” after I made about 47 sites that are not just blogs and do use totally just the WP platform.

Ryder

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Engraving on May 2nd, 2009 7:03 am

I have a website and I’d like to start using Wordpress as a CMS. I know it is often used for Blogs, but can be used for websites too. My concern is that when I switch to Wordpress the address of my pages will change and I’ll lose my PageRank and search engine rankings. Is it possible to load a current website into Wordpress without having these problems, and if so how?

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Ryder reply on May 3rd, 2009 1:32 am:

Engraving,

Hello and thanks for the comment and question.

There is an easy solution if you are running the site on Apache server for not losing any links and or PageRank/SERPs after you make all new site. Just use 301 permanent redirects and set the rules up in .htaccess file in the root of your site. Just make rules to 301 redirect the old links to the new site links that are corresponding to the same content… What the 301 will do is tell google bot that this page has permanently moved and after about 3 – 4 months will not even need the redirects any more, google will have the new site links updated and listed as such in the index.

I have used the 301s many times, they work great and no harm to page SEO.

Ryder

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I’m investigating using WordPress as a web site option – I’ve had some artist friends ask me about creating web sites for them. The more I learn about WP, the more I realize it will work very well. Tips like these are wonderful to find since I’m just learning my way around WP. Thanks!

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I also use wordpress blogs on part of my site. And I use if for stand alone websites.

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WP is my favorite CMS. thank you for some new information

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I use Wordpress for one of my sites, but mostly use Joomla as a CMS oriented site. Nothing against Wordpress, as I am slowly learning more and more about it, but to have it function and work like a website and less like a blog, Wordpress just hasnt worked for me yet. I do like it though.

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Wordpress is the most favorite of CMS for blogger to use, including me. I intend to soon use self-hosted domain and use wordpress as its cms.

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Wordpress is the best if anyone asks me. I would not migrate to any other platform. The best thing I like about WP is the themes it has and the ability to tweak your page. Really great. Thanks for the article. Cheers

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WordPress started as a Blogging site, slowly and steady become Powerful CMS system too. WP doing great work.

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I think it is quite easy and fun to modify wordpress using your own php/database code. You don’t really need that much knowledge to do this, in fact it is very easy to add your own css images etc by editing the default code.

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Great article. I love Wordpress. I write my own PHP code too, very helpful.

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Thanks for sharing. I never thought of using Wordpress for anything other than blogging.

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Thanks for your post. I can learn something new even though I have many experience in using WordPress as CMS. WordPress is great. I am proud that I picked up the right tool. You might be interested to see how WordPress can be used in such a way.

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WP is the most popular open source blog. The best part of wp are had tons of plugins that helpful for e-business.

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Several of my wp-themes have a custom page template, such as “sitemap”, “links” and “Archives’.
That help much, we don’t need to make our own sitemap again

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Thanks for the info. that really helped me in setting up may own WP blog. and really interesting facts.

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Word press is much better than anything else. I am sure that WP are making new and new changes in it so that they could out stand the others.It is better to create CMS rather having the static ones.

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we all know that the wordpress is the only one who keeps on bringing the new changes to it’s platform & that’s why it is liked by most of the blogger & that’s the reality about it!

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and Waiting for New Stuff Related to CMS Custom Pages…and can you plz tell me where could i get flash related templates …

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Hi!

Wordpress is great blogging system. This feature is great and can be very useful. There is a lot more to use WP as CMS than you wrote.

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I never knew about anything like this but I do love wordpress!
Very useful post, thanks a lot.
I’ll have a look at putting this on my blog too

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I must admit I am a fan of Joomla, but i have used Wordpress and for Blogging of course it is the best.

As a CMS, it is strong for sure, but give me Joomla any day! For the templates alone.

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Wordpress become as a powerfull CMS system not WP has not only limited to blogging, WP already widely spread some systems and ecommerce websites.

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Will start working on WP for sure from now onwards …. plus CSS are too old now they do not offer that compatibility any more ……………….

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I’ve done this before and it’s very efficient and powerful.

The only problem was that I had to edit the template files a lot to get it how I wanted it, now there are loads of built in settings to do this (like setting a page as the homepage).

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Its amazing how in n WordPress, you can write either posts or pages. When you’re writing a regular blog entry, you write a post. Posts automatically appear in reverse chronological order on your blog’s home page. Pages, on the other hand, are for content such as “About Me,” “Contact Me,” etc.

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Hi,

This is a great tip. I love the logic behind it.
I followed your tips and successfully upload the new file. Saved it as custompage.php. It shows up at the theme editor but when I go to Write/edit page,it does not show up under the Page Template.

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There are two means of displaying content with WordPress – Pages and posts. Pages operate outside the the Loop. In other words, they don’t age and they’re usually accessible as part of the main navigation. They’re used for displaying static information such as a contact form, bio, services, etc. Conversely, posts are dynamic pages which will “age”, or move down the blog chronology as new entries are made.

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Really CMS are the such applications which provides the contemporary innovation to new era of blog and new ally of website with more effective way.

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Using Wordpress as a cms is a good solution and we ve got a good community for asking questions.

Thanks for your article

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I use CMS to easy manage custom my template site and learn some new php code to release it..thanks for sharing

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There’re many premium that can make your blog as a magazine. One of theme is One Theme, very cool and good for SEO

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You are absolutely right. I have several themes in wordpress and they look like cms. It´s incredible the things you can do with wordpress

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biodentical on December 3rd, 2009 2:54 am

Wow! What an great news for those who are afraid of huge investment for graphic web designing. Since we can use WP themes as custom template page.

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Wordpress has always been my favorite CMS. keep the wordpress posts coming! there’s still so much i don’t know and so much i can learn from you. thanks!

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Thanks for this great post.The skyrocketed popularity of Wordpress has made it extremely important to get a platform from where we can get information and where we can discuss about our doubts and confusions..I think its a good blog..I will follow this onwards.

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Wordpress is my all time favorite CMS. keep on posting in this blog.. it’s a interesting blog.. and don’t forget to post if you get any new information about it..

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I don’t want to read comments above. It doen’t make any sense – 95% is spam .

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Indian Tour Operator on December 23rd, 2009 6:39 am

Instead of using one of the theme templates on the top page of my Yahoo 360 page, I would like to use one of my own photographs as background . I’ve seen other sites where people have customs web pages. How can I do this step by step? Can I use my photos?

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London Graphic Designer on January 13th, 2010 4:01 am

Thanks for the tip, I’m still learning about CMS/Wordpress and am especially interested in learning more about customisation of templates.

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I am nor very good at coding but i have little knowledge. Can you tell me more deeply about this?
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Home Decoration Design on January 28th, 2010 1:38 am

Is there a difference between an ebay store template and a web page template? keep Blogging….

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Bidet reply on July 19th, 2010 4:44 am:

No there is not a difference they both allow you to customize the way the page looks and allows you change the layout around. Templates are very useful for that. Not much work has to be done on the design part.

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Home Decoration Design on January 28th, 2010 1:39 am

A file or files that contain the structure and tools for shaping such elements as the style and page layout of finished files. For example, Word templates can shape a single document, and FrontPage templates can shape an entire Web site.).

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Skid Steers for Sale on February 2nd, 2010 10:13 pm

Wordpress has always been my favorite because of this. So many things can be done with Wordpress. It is so flexible. Love he article. Cheers

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custom wordpress design bali on February 9th, 2010 8:55 am

If there’s custom “page” design template editors can select when writing pages, why there’s no custom “single” template when writing post?

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Roof tile coating on March 3rd, 2010 8:07 am

Ya Sure Word press blog is as Custom Template Page.
There are many tools and template in it for all facilities.

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igorchik on March 3rd, 2010 9:25 am

Wordpress is excellent for posting and blogging because it’s easy and really fast, but for other type of webresources I’d rather prefer other CMS. For example Joomla or Drupal… IMHO

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Webdesign Bayerischer Wald on March 10th, 2010 8:18 am

I love Wordpress to
For smaller projects that need a CMS-System i’m using Wordpress too, because it’s simple to handle for the user, it’s fast, it needs not much space and there are not much files. But for bigger sites you have to use Joomla or Typo3…

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whisky barrel on March 10th, 2010 9:20 am

Yeah…Wordpress as CMS is indeed a great choice! Based on experience I can tell that it really cool to use it. Because I also used wordpress as CMs

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Webdesign Roosendaal on March 15th, 2010 11:00 am

Nice tips, though I still prefer an open source CMS like CMS Made Simple above blogging software like WordPress.

It takes a lot of time in WordPress to completely modify a template for your purposes. I wish that process could be done a lot easier.

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college grad salary on April 2nd, 2010 7:02 am

yeah I agree with you pal!

It is indeed a great post!

I am looking forward for more postings to be done!

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drzwi automatyczne on April 5th, 2010 12:07 pm

Wordpress is a brilliant engine. Is widely used – the blog works best. After finishing, you can use it as a CMS for a large Internet service

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Background Check Miami on April 10th, 2010 9:58 pm

As i have always said. .i love WP .. and love it even more than Joomla… it is easy to develop, and the community and availability of plugins is fantastic. Personally i use it for everything , blogs .. catalogs.. cms… shopping carts.. if you dont mind you can visit http://plr.com.pa its an example of a wordpress property catalog for a real estate company … wordpress is SO MUCH MORE than blogs! =)

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Web Design Newcastle on April 16th, 2010 3:29 pm

We regularly use Wordpress as a light-weight CMS for our clients. Not only can they obviously have a blog, but having seamless and easy access to create and edit pages is a big bonus. Plus there is such a big WP community that you’re never short of a plugin to do what you’re looking for.

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Whois entry on April 19th, 2010 1:42 pm

Thanks a lot for this useful tutorial!
There are also some Wordpress template where we can modify the header intantly in their options templates page.

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Muscle Max Xl on April 28th, 2010 3:30 am

Recently, I was contacted to make a website for a small business. They want me to make a basic, nothing real fancy, 4 page website with joomla integration so they can update it. They would like a custom template so all the colors match their store and whatnot.

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iPhone Development on April 30th, 2010 11:59 pm

Wordpress is the best content management system if you are thinking to create blog. I use wordpress for my website blog. it’s a user friendly cms. there are lots of CMS available in the market now but i prefer only WordPress.

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laser pointer on May 12th, 2010 12:52 am

Im very new to the world of wordpress, this is a very insightful article, thanks for the share.

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Sequin Heels on May 13th, 2010 2:21 pm

Agree. Wordpress is the easiest managment system for content. I am still new to wordpress but, haven’t seen anthing else out there..

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yeni albümler on May 16th, 2010 8:31 am

There are also some Wordpress template where we can modify the header intantly in their options templates page.

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Bidet reply on July 19th, 2010 4:43 am:

The really good Wordpress themes cost money but there are some good free ones, you have to look at them but most free ones are limited in the customization.

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??????? on May 24th, 2010 11:59 pm

Ahkurmk for this nice article

thinking to create blog. I use wordpress for my website blog. it’s a user friendly cms. there are lots of CMS available in the market now but i prefer only WordPress.

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????? ????? on May 25th, 2010 12:12 am

some artist friends ask me about creating web sites for them. The more I learn about WP, the more I realize it will work very well. Tips like these are wonderful to find since I’m just learning my way around WP. Thanks

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Navision on June 4th, 2010 6:01 am

That’s just perfect, Thanks for your article, i use wordpress for severals yers and i is fantastic CMS.

Best,

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Cartoon Games on June 8th, 2010 1:36 am

Using Wordpress for almost two years and I was not disappointed at all. You can use any type of site.

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priya on June 11th, 2010 2:58 am

thanks for sharing this to us,I like to use wordpress very much…nice article dude!

thanks again

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web tasar?m? on June 23rd, 2010 6:32 am

me too ? l?ke to use wordpress ..?ts excellent..?ts perfect.
You can use any type of site.

thank you

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pinkieboyz on June 30th, 2010 11:40 pm

I like to use wordpress, its verry comfortable for me.
you can make custom page etc, easy to use.

thanks

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Restaurants Kingston Upon Thames on July 7th, 2010 12:36 pm

I love your blog and all its posts. You are absolutely right. custom templates makes parts or pages of the websites unique. Thanks for the tips and tricks you so kindly share. keep on updating like that. Awaiting for your next one.

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Bidet on July 19th, 2010 4:42 am

Great post, WordPress is a great as a CMS backbone it has everything you need to create a blog and to design it. Its also pretty simple to use.

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saglik haber on July 20th, 2010 6:48 am

Im very new to the world of wordpress, this is a very insightful article, thanks for the share.

Great post, WordPress is a great as a CMS backbone it has everything you need to create a blog and to design it. Its also pretty simple to use.

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erotic shop on July 24th, 2010 2:58 pm

That’s a great tip. I love the logic behind it.
I followed your tips and successfully upload the new file. Saved it as custompage.php. It shows up at the theme editor but when I go to Write/edit page,it does not show up under the Page Template.

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murat on July 25th, 2010 1:32 am

I’ve never used Word Press before, never even heard of it, a few programes in the past have been a bit bobbins whereas this sounds quite good

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dms27 on July 26th, 2010 4:33 am

I’ve been wanting to practice Wordpress. Thanks for your post. I’m currently working on Wordpress and its CSS on how to optimize every page.

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