Website plans
So I’ve really gotten into working with WordPress fairly quickly since using it with this very website. Like I had said in my previous post that it is fairly easy to use. Then again I had for a good while been reading articles and articles on how to use WordPress but never made the attempt to actually use it until a few days ago.
At first what I had thought was going to be the hardest part of using WordPress was creating a theme for it, but not the case at all. If anything that is hard about WordPress is that there are plenty of tag templates to use and figuring which ones to use. But once you get into using them you start to understand them and practically are able to guess what a tag template could be. For example a custom field that I created for each post is called Summary and the way you would call it in the back end is “the meta”. So when I was trying to pull that Summary into the post, I needed to use a tag template and I knew it was meta data for the custom field so I guessed at first:
<?php meta(); ?>and failed. So after the bit of frustration I checked out WordPress Codex to see what the tag template is to pull the custom field and the answer:
<?php the_meta(); ?>. It made me a bit happy to see that I actually came that close and also figured out that the more I mess with the tag templates the easier it is to know what I’m looking for.
My next plan is to revamp my first website that I ever purchased tirolocoworks.com. If you can’t pronounce the domain name, thats ok. I got that name from a lyric of a band I use to jam out to a lot when I was in middle school called Molotov. I’ve owned that domain name since 2006 and have yet to do anything productive to it. But now that I got some new experience with WordPress I’m definitely gonna continue using it and see what I can do with it besides just blogging.
Tirolocoworks.com was primarily going to be used as my full-fledged freelance web and graphic design company. So that is something that I do want to continue with and make it my portfolio site and showcase all my work that I have done and will be doing. That is as much thought as I can give it for now that will help me define what I will do with tirolocoworks.com. Thats all I got for now Peace out!
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WordPress is pretty powerful. It doesn’t fit every situation/project, but I’ve been able to accomplish a lot in it. Let me know if I can help, or share ideas!
Indeed it is quite powerful in a way that is fairly easy to understand. I just might ask you for some advice the different ways of using the infamous WordPress loop. Thanks Eric.