Help With A Wordpress Blog

[TheLukieBaby]

I am sure this is a common problem, I am trying to set up a basic Wordpress sports blog that doesn't look like a blogspot generic blog, but I am really struggling to understand the Wordpress interface on how to make my vision come to life, can anyone help?

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

I am sure this is a common problem, I am trying to set up a basic Wordpress sports blog that doesn't look like a blogspot generic blog, but I am really struggling to understand the Wordpress interface on how to make my vision come to life, can anyone help?

What are trying to do exactly. Finding and applying a template you like would be the best bet. Coding for wordpress from scratch isn't necessarily for the feint of heart. Wix.com also has very easy tools to create a decent site. It all depends what you are trying to do. I personally have a wordpress site that I purchased and modified a template for

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

You might also consider just setting up a facebook page separate for your thoughts on sports. You'd most likely get more hits than you would on an independent site.

 

[Brooklynzson]

I am sure this is a common problem, I am trying to set up a basic Wordpress sports blog that doesn't look like a blogspot generic blog, but I am really struggling to understand the Wordpress interface on how to make my vision come to life, can anyone help?

You have hosting and WP installed yet?

 

[TheLukieBaby]

What are trying to do exactly. Finding and applying a template you like would be the best bet. Coding for wordpress from scratch isn't necessarily for the feint of heart. Wix.com also has very easy tools to create a decent site. It all depends what you are trying to do. I personally have a wordpress site that I purchased and modified a template for

A simple template with four options on the top to guide you through the site w/ a mission statement on the front page sort of like this


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You have hosting and WP installed yet?

I am setting up the hosting this weekend when the team can get together - I was hoping to learn WP this week to be able to set up stuff or learn, but I am finding it hard

 

[Brooklynzson]

A simple template with four options on the top to guide you through the site w/ a mission statement on the front page sort of like this


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I am setting up the hosting this weekend when the team can get together - I was hoping to learn WP this week to be able to set up stuff or learn, but I am finding it hard

Best way to learn is to play with it, pause. The navigation stuff is easy, once you get you're host and WP installed, you'll see. Bluehost.com is a good host, its cheap and they have one click install. There's youtube videos showing the steps to install WP on Bluehost.

For themes, go to Themeforest.com & look around.

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

Best way to learn is to play with it, pause. The navigation stuff is easy, once you get you're host and WP installed, you'll see. Bluehost.com is a good host, its cheap and they have one click install. There's youtube videos showing the steps to install WP on Bluehost.

For themes, go to Themeforest.com & look around.

Themeforest

 

[Pete Wrigley]

A simple template with four options on the top to guide you through the site w/ a mission statement on the front page sort of like this


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I am setting up the hosting this weekend when the team can get together - I was hoping to learn WP this week to be able to set up stuff or learn, but I am finding it hard

If you need tutorials, I know of a few I could send you. I work with WordPress everyday as our clients use it mostly.

 

[Strike-Wun]

Best way to learn is to play with it, pause. The navigation stuff is easy, once you get you're host and WP installed, you'll see. Bluehost.com is a good host, its cheap and they have one click install. There's youtube videos showing the steps to install WP on Bluehost.

For themes, go to Themeforest.com & look around.

Themeforest

ThemeForest, yall beat me to it

I would HIGHLY recommend buying/leasing a template beause a outdated template will get your site hacked into (learned my lesson)

I got mine from there also, just added a few modifications of my own

I think I still have my WordPress Lynda.com training videos, I'll have to check when I get home

 

[TheLukieBaby]

Best way to learn is to play with it, pause. The navigation stuff is easy, once you get you're host and WP installed, you'll see. Bluehost.com is a good host, its cheap and they have one click install. There's youtube videos showing the steps to install WP on Bluehost.

For themes, go to Themeforest.com & look around.

thank you so much

 

[TheLukieBaby]

So how long does a regular license last for a themeforrest template before you have to renew?

 

[TheLukieBaby]

Best way to learn is to play with it, pause. The navigation stuff is easy, once you get you're host and WP installed, you'll see. Bluehost.com is a good host, its cheap and they have one click install. There's youtube videos showing the steps to install WP on Bluehost.

For themes, go to Themeforest.com & look around.

so I get hosting from bluehost and don't have to buy the package from Wordpress or buy both?

 

[Brooklynzson]

so I get hosting from bluehost and don't have to buy the package from Wordpress or buy both?

Wordpress is free. You gotta buy a theme if you don't want the ones it come with.

 

[yaga]

Easy on the WP plug ins.

They will burn you if you aren't continually checking for updates.

Also, have you had a look at Bootstrap?

There's a lot else you could do for a small website.

Keep your options open in terms of what you're able to do.

Can be really rewarding and so much fun.

Best of luck.

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

You might also consider just setting up a facebook page separate for your thoughts on sports. You'd most likely get more hits than you would on an independent site.

@TheLukieBaby

This isnt necessarily true. I was getting a shyt ton of hits on my old sports blog/ website. I marketed it as a online men's magazine type thing and had a lot of original content plus linked articles and pictures. If you get the bots to crawl the site for keywords right and verify it with google then you can do well. One article I wrote on a Pom Juice lawsuit got 570 views in one day

Plus..youre really only gonna get hits on Facebook if you work your ass off and use their overpriced advertising framework. They switched the formula for promotion of pages a while back to make it far less advantageous for most non personal pages.Wordpress does more work for you for free and you have more customization options on there. All i was paying for on my site was domain name which was like 10 bucks a year.

I still use WP a bit, for a couple different sites. I shoulda never deleted my original one...deleted all the content but didnt delete the infrastructure of it because i got accepted into their adword revenue program and i just switched it all to the website for a company i work for