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Having Problems w/ WordPress Website

by Scott Baillie
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Hi warriors, I'm new here but I'm glad I've found this place. What a great forum.

I have a client who's requested I use WP as CMS for her website. I have a lot of experience creating custom WP themes and doing a PSD to WP transition. However, they've mostly been standard blog themes and not a 70-page website with endless customization.

The "blog" is a non-issue. I have the blog pages already setup at luxetraveldeals dot com (no need to criticize the hypnotizing background :rolleyes:)

The problem I'm running to is some of the website "templates" and how the client will update the page through dashboard.

For example, one specific template calls for an image carousel and a 3-column sub-section above the actual page text. And the requirement is that this information needs to be unique to that page. So an ordinary widget won't work here, at least the ones I've encountered (or I'm just having a brain fart). So what can I do here?

Any and all help appreciated!
#problems #w or #website #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author mozzer
    Hello,

    You can find great and cheap wordpress CMS themes at themeforest.net

    A lot of them offer advanced shortcodes (column layouts, images sliders, toggles, tabs...) and are easily customizable.
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  • Profile picture of the author mrmagos
    I can think of a couple ways of doing this off the top of my head.

    1) Create a category - this will be used for the 3-column area. Exclude this category form any other loops in the rest of the templates (we don't want this content showing up anywhere else). Use a featured post plugin to display the images. Associate an image with each of the 3 posts. Use a second loop to display the actual page content below the 3-column area.

    2) Use an image slider plugin for the images - most will allow you to use images unassociated with posts. Create a widget area (or 3 areas) below this for the 3 columns, and use text boxes to populate the content. Insert the loop below this to display page content.

    Hope that helps!
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