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WordPress CMS add to my own site?

  • 19-11-2013 11:52pm
    #1
    nameisme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 ✭


    Hi all,

    I'm a modestly great web designer, but haven't a clue about development. Can I'm building a newsletter type site hosting it with blacknight.

    I want to have it so that contributors to my newsletter can update and add articles to it whenever they like. They question I have is, I have designed a nice layout and a layout for all the pages that's needed, login and admin etc.

    How can I add wordpress to this or is that the best way to go?

    Thanks,
    James


Comments

  • #2
    daymobrew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,571 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    I think that WordPress is a good way to go - as a big fan of WordPress I am biased.

    You can make the contributors Authors and their articles will need the approval of Editors (or Administrators) before they are published. There are plugins to modify the workflow.


  • #3
    nameisme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 ✭nameisme


    Thanks for your reply. Can you edit themes to suit your needs? Is there a way that they can just be published without being approved?


  • #4
    sheesh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,081 ✭✭✭sheesh


    nameisme wrote: »
    Thanks for your reply. Can you edit themes to suit your needs? Is there a way that they can just be published without being approved?
    yes there is. just remember if it is on your site you are legally responsible for it.


  • #5
    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,643 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    You can create your own WordPress themes, there's a load of theme frameworks to get you started if you're that way inclined.


  • #6
    nameisme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 ✭nameisme


    Thanks guys, this is definitely looking promising for me. Anyone know a theme like what the journal uses? I like the layout. Thanks again


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  • #7
    daymobrew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,571 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    nameisme wrote: »
    Can you edit themes to suit your needs?
    Yes. It is best to make a 'child theme' where you can tweak some of the features of the parent theme that you are using.
    You can buy a magazine theme as a starting point.
    nameisme wrote: »
    Is there a way that they can just be published without being approved?
    Yes - make the contributors "Editors".


  • #8
    nameisme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 ✭nameisme


    Thanks, I was looking for a more basic, header-content-right column-footer display.
    If I make them authors it seems to work better for contributing articles.


  • #9
    daymobrew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,571 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    nameisme wrote: »
    If I make them authors it seems to work better for contributing articles.
    As you go on you some authors will prove themselves and you can promote them to Editors.


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