Now that we have reviewed the ways that pages and posts are organized in WordPress, it’s time to add the blog functionality to this Professional Services website. The first aspect of that is just understanding our site architecture. Remember that we've got these four main pages. One main page has three sub pages. Another main
Using Posts
Organizing Content in WordPress
March 10, 2017Now that you understand WordPress as a content management system and the kinds of pages and organization it generates, it’s time to do our own organization. We are going to talk about how we are going to organize our content for a Professional Services website in WordPress and Thesis. WordPress has inherent organization. As we
WordPress as a Content Management System (CMS)
March 10, 2017Welcome to Lesson 9, Add Blog Functionality to the Site, in our course how to build a Professional Website in WordPress and Thesis 2.2. Today we are going to add the blog functionality to our website. It's not going to strictly speaking be a blog but I am going to show you how a small
Adding Content to your Site in the Form of Text, Images, Video, Audio & Other Media
February 6, 2017In this second lesson of our WordPress 4.7 Crash Course we delve into the topic of adding content to your website. There are a few new things of note in 4.7 that we discuss but for the most part this lesson will be most useful to beginning users of WordPress. However, if you aren't a
Using the WordPress Blog Functionality
February 6, 2017Now that you have seen how to configure WordPress to be like a traditional website let’s talk about using the WordPress blog functionality. Again, remember that WordPress was originally developed as a blogging application and your home page displayed a list of your latest blog posts with the latest blog post on the top. In
The Comment Form is not Showing Up on my WordPress Blog Page
January 16, 2015In this session we discuss why the comment form is not showing up on a WordPress Blog page and show how to use the “More” tag to split the posts up so that they go to the actual post page where comments can be made. Member: On my Blog page with just a custom WordPress
WordPress 3.9 Crash Course – Part 32 – Using the WordPress Blog Functionality
May 19, 2014We're going to wrap today up by talking about using the blog functionality in WordPress 3.9. As I mentioned before, the history of WordPress is as a blogging platform and WordPress today is still fundamentally a blog application. WordPress has made a very good transition from only a blogging platform to a platform that supports
Create a Magazine Style Blog Site with Thesis 2 – Part 4 – Organizing Content in WordPress
March 27, 2013If you have a page that you want to display all of your posts of a given category, that page is called a Category Archive page and we're going to be spending essentially all of our time looking at styling and organizing Category Archive pages but that's what that Category page is, it's called a
Lesson 12 – Part 6 – Add Blog Functionality to the Site
February 20, 2013In order for us to add blog functionality to the site, I want to first look at the architecture that we set up for this site at the very beginning. This is the site architecture before adding the blog functionality. We have our home page and under our home page was our services, our testimonials,
Lesson 12 – Part 2 – Organizing Content in WordPress
February 20, 2013WordPress has some inherent organization. There’s organization that is automatically built in to WordPress that is going to be there no matter what you do. And you see that in the first place with pages. Pages are automatically hierarchical and no typical WordPress taxonomies apply. That means pages are not organized by date. Pages aren’t
Lesson 12 – Add Blog Functionality to the Thesis 2 Site
February 15, 2013In lesson 12 of our Build a Responsive Professional Website using Thesis Theme 2, we show how to add a blog and blog functionality to your site. Before we begin though we discuss using WordPress as a content management system (CMS). Here we talk about terminology, the content types that can be created using WordPress,
Lesson 7 – Part 3 – Using WordPress Tools to Organize the Site
January 15, 2013WordPress gives you a couple of sets of tools to help you organize your site. You don’t just have to organize this on your own. There are some mechanisms inside of WordPress that you can employ to get this organization set up. And really, principally, there are two sets of tools. It’s important that you
Lesson 12 – Add Blog Functionality to the Site
March 31, 2012Lesson 12 of our Build a Professional Services Website using the Genesis theme and WordPress is all about setting up a blog for your small business/professional website. We begin by talking about WordPress and Genesis as a content management system and what that means. We discuss WordPress content types such as pages and posts as
Lesson 12 – Part 4 – Add Blog Functionality to the Site
March 10, 2012Site Structure Before Adding Blog FunctionalityThe next thing we're going to do then is to add blog functionality to this business/professional services Thesis Theme site. In order for us to do that, we need to come back and review our site architecture that we talked about in Lesson 7 of the series. So far right
Lesson 12 – Part 5 – Set the Display Style for Posts and Archive Pages
March 10, 2012The next we're going to do is set the display style for Posts and Archive Pages. In terms of the typical display style at the moment, here is what our posts page looks like. This is what a single post looks like and an archive page. We're going to copy this, that'll be the easier
Lesson 12 – Part 6 – Using Blog Related Widgets
March 10, 2012Now we need to talk about using blog related widgets because last time we talked about all the non-blog related widgets. There actually are a number of widgets that we want to use if we are using this blog functionality. Killer Recent Entries The two widgets that we're going to take a look at tonight
How to Exclude Posts from the Blog Page using Categories and Tags
March 1, 2012In this session, we begin with a short demonstration on how to use existing WordPress functionality to add categories to the WordPress Menu and to the sidebar using a widget. Then we discuss the ability to exclude posts by category in which case you can use our BYOB Thesis Exclude Categories From Posts plugin. You
Can You Use Posts for Both a Blog and Announcements Without Showing them All on the Blog?
February 23, 2012In this session, we discuss how you can use posts for both your blog and announcements but without showing them all on the blog. You can do that by using one of our plugins, BYOB Thesis Exclude Category From Posts. Video Transcript Member: I was also looking at a video on the Business Application for
What’s Wrong with Using In-line Styles?
February 21, 2012In this session, we discuss why it is bad practice to use inline styles. If you frequently use inline styles, you may find yourself at a place where you want them all changed to another style. This can be difficult because you need to go through all the elements where ever you have placed them
Lesson 12 – Add Blog Functionality to the Site
February 6, 2012In Lesson 12 of our Build a Professional Services Website using the Thesis theme and WordPress we show how to add a blog to your small business website. We begin by talking about using WordPress as a Content Management System (CMS). We discuss what a CMS is and go through WordPress terminology for available content