Concerning the recent turn of events I’ve outlined in my previous post ‘Unbelievable’, let it be known that help is never far away.
The help I needed to fix my particular problem came in the form of ‘WordPress Complete’ by Hasin Hayder. More specifically, Chapter 5: Non Blog Content, which is freely available as a downloadable pdf from Packt Publishing.
This single chapter showed me how to modify WordPress in such a way that I could use it both for presentation, and as a workable content management system. Following Hasin’s excellent step-by-step instructions, I had a rough outline of what I needed in 2 hours. After that, I was able to produce in 3 days what took me 3 months to accomplish on the .Net platform. Granted, I was already familiar with PHP and the WordPress engine to a fair degree (much more than I knew about Asp.Net, at least), but the time and trouble that was saved from reading that one chapter was truly incredible.
I can’t wait to read the rest.
Hasin, if you happen to get here one day, I just have to say that you saved my ass, and I can’t thank you enough. I’ll be purchasing the full pdf and a hard-copy version of your book as soon as I get paid for this job. You’re the man.
Back to The Loop.
My pleasure!!, all credit goes to you actually becoz you had tried and success followed!!! –
thanks again
Let me know how informative the book is , would love to read some !
P.S thanks for the linky !
Hasin: Thanks for the positive reinforcement. I’m dissecting the WP 2.1 and K2 theme on my local machine, and it’s much easier with the insight I gained from Chapter 5. Even the the topics covered in the WP Codex are much easier to grasp now.
I believe I’ll be taking a trip to Barnes and Noble tomorrow to see if they have a copy in stock. I can’t hold-out any longer; the suspense is killing me!
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Mohammed: I’ll let you know about the topics covered in the other chapters; no problem.
Green is my favorite color; needless to say, I went crazy when I saw your blog. Vibrant green to excess!
Note: I found both of you guys on the Tag Surfer. Nice feature, eh?
Also, if you ever to decide to work with the Smarty Templates, get Hasin’s Smarty Cheat Sheet. I haven’t decided whether to use Smarty yet, but if I do, this looks really cool:
http://hasin.wordpress.com/2006/06/10/smarty-cheat-sheet-version-20/
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Thanks for the comments, guys!
Green is lovely eyh ?
you can always change your layout to the green i think its called iLemond
http://www.ilemoned.com/ .
Just fyi , in your wordpress admin there is a Presentation tab that you can change layout in there
i have just purchased the custom CSS so i can play with the blog and learn CSS the ” Getting hands dirty” way .
Ah i was looking for a good documentation about smarty looks like i have found the first clue here , thanks mate .
Why are you guys so concerned about wordpress? create your own blog from scratch and put it on your own domain!