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Questions for all of you Wordpress gearheads...

by Talltom1
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OK, so I can program sophisticated php/mysql apps in my sleep. Setting up a serious Joomla installation is no longer challenging.

But then there's Wordpress...

A couple of quick questions...

1. Where the bleep do I change the <title> tag for the site... you know, the words across the top of your browser?

2. Right now the blog is publishing full articles, and all of them at that, on the home page. How do I set it up to do only the intro text (for selected articles), like I can do so easily in Joomla?

Is it worth it for me to stick with Wordpress, or pull the plug now and install Joomla???

Talltom
#gearheads #questions #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author leeh
    Hi. I've been looking into WordPress just recently, and have found the title of the blog is stored in the WP_TITLE variable right at the top of the header.php. Depending on the theme it will probably have some PHP stuff in there too but as you know what you're doing with PHP it will hopefully not be a problem.

    I'd like to know how to only include a small introductionary section to posts on the main blog post if it's possible. So far I've assumed it's best to focus on the article/post's URL when linking.

    Hope that helps you.
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    • Profile picture of the author Shannon Herod
      To change the title of the Main blog you need to go into settings-general.

      Then, you can change the name of the blog and the tagline. The name of the blog is going to run across the top.

      As for each individual blog posts you need a plug-in like all in one Seo plug in.

      That plug-in will allow you to change the title tag for each post.

      As for your second question, that is a theme related issue. Most premium themes will allow you to adjust the way the posts are shown on the main page.

      For instance, I use headway for all of my sites. That theme will allow you to show a featured post that shows the full article, and then excerpts, or just excerpts, and so on and so forth.
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  • Profile picture of the author terrapurus
    Talltom - the power of wordpress does not come from editing the code directly but from using plugins to easily do what you want to do. Install All In One SEO and everything will be at your finger tips. It will set it by default for you or you can create your own.
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  • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
    Originally Posted by Talltom1 View Post

    1. Where the bleep do I change the <title> tag for the site... you know, the words across the top of your browser?
    In most themes it will be in the header.php file but this is theme dependent. As others mentioned, the default place for this info is in the general setting but you can override it directly in code or using a plugin that modifies the header.

    Originally Posted by Talltom1 View Post

    2. Right now the blog is publishing full articles, and all of them at that, on the home page. How do I set it up to do only the intro text (for selected articles), like I can do so easily in Joomla?
    Basically, there are two ways and how they behave is, in part, also theme dependent.

    One is to use the 'more' tag in your post or page. Unless the theme overrides it, this will cause the text before the tag to be displayed on any non-post page where it shows up (index, category, etc).

    The other depends on how the theme supports the excerpt meta-data. Most magazine style themes use this to display a custom excerpt of the post on secondary pages that may or may not be exactly the same as the post itself.
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  • Profile picture of the author dv8domainsDotCom
    If you're coming from joomla with a dev (php/mysql) background, I can only encourage you to play with wordpress as well. Start with exploring index.php which starts a really fun load chain down through some include statements. It's a beautifully designed script. You'll also see that most of the templates are very logically scripted (and easily modified from within the app as well)
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