Case Study – Community Library

This is the fourth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this case study we are creating a community library website. In this lesson we will be deciding what the custom taxonomies will be and if they are hierarchical or non-hierarchical. We are also [...]

This is the sixth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this case study we are creating a community library website. In this lesson we discuss some of the issues around importing existing data. Some is saved as posts, some as taxonomies and some [...]

This is the eighth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this case study we are creating a community library website. In this lesson we set up our non-hierarchical custom taxonomies. We go through the process of configuring them using the Custom Post Type [...]

This is the tenth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). One of the large tasks is importing existing data into the WordPress database. A crucial part of testing that import is restoring the database when the import doesn’t work properly. In this video tutorial [...]

This is the tenth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). We are preparing to import existing data into the database so it is crucial to have a system in place for restoring the database to a pre-import condition. In this lesson we make some [...]

This is the twelfth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). We are using the CSV Importer plugin to import an existing database from a CSV file. The second step in doing this is to modify or sanitize the data so the plugin will treat [...]

This is the fourteenth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this lesson we discuss possible permalink structures for the site. We consider how to use the date in the permalink. A note about Permalink structure in WordPress 3.3. It is no longer necessary [...]

This is the sixteenth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). We are using the CSV Importer plugin to import an existing database from a CSV file. A member has followed the directions but is getting an error on data import. We look at her [...]

This is the eighteenth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this session we configure and add WordPress 3.0 menus to the site in order to display lists of our custom post types and custom taxonomies. Video Transcript And so the next thing we [...]