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Should WordPress be Used to Create Static Websites?

A member asks if WordPress is an appropriate tool for a purely static website. If the website has no “dynamic” elements and consists of only static webpages, should WordPress and Thesis be used to create such a site? Select the link below to watch a high definition version of this video Video Transcript Does that [...]

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What’s the Best Way to Create A Static/Dynamic Hybrid Site

This member asks about the best way to combine both static and dynamic pages or static and dynamic elements in a single site. We discuss what “static” means in WordPress. We also discuss how to have a completely static WordPress website. Then we discuss the Hybrid content type where some elements of the site are [...]

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The WordPress Home Page, Posts Page and Front Page

In this basic lesson I discuss the differences between the home page, the posts page and the front page. WordPress uses these terms in very specific ways. I also demonstrate how to create a static front page and the behavior of a posts page. Video Transcript And so what we’ll do now is we will [...]

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Should My Site Have a Static Front Page?

This member asks whether or not her site should use a static front page for its home page rather than a traditional blog page. We discuss the situations in which a static front page is appropriate and consider the SEO implications of a blog page versus static page. Video Transcript Rick: So the next question [...]

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Lesson 7 - Part 4 - Using Wordpress Tools to Organize the Site

Lesson 7 – Part 4 – Using WordPress Tools to Organize the Site

WordPress gives us a set of tools to organize your website and I’m going to describe those sets of tools in two ways. Simplified View of the Tools First is the Training Wheel View of these tools. Please understand that this is a simplified explanation of the concepts but for the purposes of this class [...]

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Lesson 7 - Part 5 - Create the Pages

Lesson 7 – Part 5 – Create the Pages

We’re going to start creating the Pages for the site. What we’re going to do is to start without a page outline just to understand the hierarchy. We’ve got our Home page and we’re going to have a Finished Products page, inside that Finished Products page, there are going to be some subpages. Then we [...]

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Lesson 7 - Part 5  - Create the Pages

Lesson 7 – Part 5 – Create the Pages

WordPress Categories What we’re going to talk about next is how to create these pages in WordPress. Kim notes that she thinks one of the most difficult things to do is to figure out how to use categories. We are going to talk about categories in a couple of weeks in several sessions when we [...]

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