how do i? nuff said

This post has been edited by threesix: Apr 16 2007, 12:52 AM

Well, there are a lot of themes to choose from not to mention the huge array of plugins for wordpress.

Wordpress Themes: http://themes.wordpress.net/
Wordpress Plugins: http://wp-plugins.net/

You might as well want to create your own theme to add that personal touch to your blog. Check out http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development for details on how to do it.

Hello there!

With FTP, you upload your folder to /wp-content/themes. In your Wordpress dashboard, you go Presentation and voila!

You will then select theme you want. Personally, I would do select the theme, see what I want to change to it, and do so offline. Then re-upload the folder.

Simple, eh? Wait, no, not that simple but the simple thing is switching between themes.

This post has been edited by Vue: Apr 16 2007, 04:33 AM

thats not what i asked i asked how do i make it like a normal website. no meta. no pages. i want to be able to link to my forum in the pages section without using blogroll. etc. and i want the posts to be called updates.

To do that you have to edit the template files (header.php, index.php, footer.php, siderbar.php) for the theme. It might be a bit tricky to get started, but by experimenting with small modifications on your local host, you should be able to easily do whatever you like.

This post has been edited by turbopowerdmaxsteel: Apr 19 2007, 08:23 AM

You can easily convert Wordpress into a CMS to manage simple websites, if you are an expert you can even create a portal based on Wordpress.

If you want a normal website based on Wordpress as CMS, you have to create a new Theme for Wordpress that will meet your needs and you can use the posts and pages in wordpress for contents in your website. You can also categorize them. If you want to what can be accomplished with Wordpress, just head over to my site http://vault.laschatz.info/ . This is a open source and free software directory running on Wordpress with a custom designed Theme.

You can add extra features to you Wordpress site like Polls, stats, Adsense, tagging etc. with a huge collection of plugins available online.

To begin with a new theme for wordpress, you can start by modifying the default Kubric theme of Wordpress.

It is better to head over to the Wordpress Codex, http://codex.wordpress.org/ and learn the basic tags and formats of Wordpress queries and functions.

Test the theme you develop in Wordpress installed in your local machine using EasyPHP or WAMP.

If need any help I'd be glad to help you.

Currently I'm developing a Wordpress Site for my professional website, it will be up within 2 weeks.

Just one friendly advice. If you really want to do some hard-core customizing, don't. Even though WordPress has a rather simple syntax, there will always be something to mess with your idea. Something so small, yet so annoying, just because you can't find a way to fix it. It might even be easire to create your own Content Management System or WebLog (a.k.a. Blog). I am saying this from personl experience, since I'm dealing with such problems right now