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How to Create a Simple CMS Website Using WordPress

This member is developing a CMS site for his company. He wants to know the best way to organize the site. We discuss the different types of content that he has and the various ways of organizing it. I suggest a scheme of posts and pages that takes full advantage of WordPress native CMS ability. [...]

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Thesis as a CMS – Upcoming Tutorial Series

A member asks about the content of the upcoming tutorial series that will be entitled something like “Use WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System.” I discuss the general outline of new course that will be coming online this Spring. It will start out as a very basic “static” site and will develop into [...]

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Lesson 12 - Part 1 - WordPress as a Content Management Sytem (CMS)

Lesson 12 – Part 1 – WordPress as a Content Management Sytem (CMS)

Good evening everybody and welcome to this Lesson 12 of our live How to Build a Professional Website Using WordPress and Thesis class. Tonight, we are going to discuss how to use WordPress as a Content Management System in the context of the site and we’ll be discussing how to add blog functionality to the [...]

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Custom Post Type Case Study – Part 2 – WordPress Tools to Solve the Problem

After analyzing the issue in part 1, we determine that a custom post type will solve the problem. Then we discuss how the parts of the custom post type – post content, post title and post meta – will work together to achieve the system needed. Video Transcript Rick: Okay so then I’m going to [...]

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Custom Post Type

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This 11 part case study delves into the process of creating Custom Post Types. Using a member’s site requirements as the basis we show how to use all aspects of custom post types.

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Lesson 12 – Add Blog Functionality to the Site

WordPress as a Content Management System (CMS) – Watch the Video What is a content management system? Terminology WordPress is bad at precise terminology Web Page Content Type Taxonomy WordPress Content Types Page Post Attachment Custom WordPress Taxonomies Categories Post Tags Author Date Custom The Types of Web Pages WordPress generates Page page Post page [...]

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