Q's: Helping a friend professionalize his WP site

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Anybody have any good links/info as to the customizability of WP?

I've never played around with the WP CMS, I'm helping a friend make his WP based commerce site into something more professional - his "store" is basically posts with paypal form submissions embedded :)

The problem I'm facing is:

- He'd like to keep the main blog page and WP's easy to use admin/posting interface, which means we want to keep the WP CMS.
- But he wants to add in other modules, a frontpage, a forum, etc. etc. I briefly took a look at the WP interface and it doesn't look like there's much functionality for a modular site structure (there probably is, I just didn't see it)

For a model, I was looking at a site like this: Effobe The metatag says it was generated by Wordpress, but seems customized to a format beyond the other WP sites I've seen


Anyone have any input? Thanks in advance guys!
 


Look at Buddypress for the forum stuff, and the WP Commerce plug-in by Instinct for the shopping stuff
 
Hey there ambertch!

I highly recommend the series - So you want to design a Wordpress Theme huh? by wpdesigner.com - learned my basic Wordpress skills there!

Basicly what you need to learn is:
- The structure of files - index.php, home.php, header.php etc.
- Template tags.
- Some functions.

To add a forum I recommend WP-Forum plugin (you can find it at Wordpress.org).

To design a frontpage you use home.php file in the template directory.

You can design wonders with Wordpress, for example (designed by me :D):
Strona g?ówna - MaxStal - Wyroby hutnicze - Us?ugi transportowe
 
OK guys, sorry I posted this in noob-mode haha. A quick google search (doh) alleviated my problems. Thanks Caffeinated for the resources, they helped a lot.

It seems WP can be converted to a CMS quite easily, and the html/php can always be raw edited :)

I just changed WP to point towards a custom page as default instead of a blog page, and I ended up just using WP's e-commerce plugin. Site's up www dot meiwentees dot com, and just tweaked a few lines in his CSS (also accessible from the WP admin interface)

Thanks guys
 
@Caffeinated

Nice work! This doesn't look like a wordpress blog at all. Is there any specific tutorial you have followed to make that?
 
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