Comments on: Blog Design 101: WordPress Theme/Template Design (Part 2)

By: Erick

Erick — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:44:31 +0000

Guys – joomla is a pathetic CMS. Horribly coded, and slow as molasses.

WP, with the plugin Flutter, is a fabulous CMS for those who want to use it as such.

Couple that with 1BlogCacher or WP-SuperCache (I prefer the former) and you even have static versions of your WP site.

I can even integrate PunBB with Wordpress, or just use BBPress. Much cleaner and faster than all the forum modules for Joomla and Drupal kind of shite.

Seriously, there is no comparison. In version 2.7, Wp kicks butt.

By: PLRPro

PLRPro — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:11:55 +0000

Great posts about Blog Design 101! Always nice to read this kind of quality information, without the BS and hype ;)

Thanks for sharing,
Robert

By: qxdigital

qxdigital — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:05:15 +0000

Just on the topic of what the first guy, Thomas, said – for me WP loses out to Joomla for any site that isn’t ‘just a blog’. Joomla offers far more options for advanced features with it’s vast range of plugins.

By: Mike from Myspace Tweaks

Mike from Myspace Tweaks — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:49:34 +0000

thanks for themes, they are nice,
keep the good work.

By: Graphic Designer

Graphic Designer — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:10:36 +0000

Great, you post really helps newbies like me to understand wordpress basics. You explained things well, thanks!

By: Sharon

Sharon — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:22:51 +0000

Will Par 3 of this tutorial be coming? I seem to understand the information in WordPress Codex better after first reading your post. I hope you are able to post Part 3 to this tutorial.

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By: WordPress QuickStart Guy

WordPress QuickStart Guy — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:18:37 +0000

great navigation tool bars and colour skin. i see your theme is very RSS oriented/friendly. Cheers!

By: Peter Tomkies

Peter Tomkies — Thu, 31 May 2007 12:15:35 +0000

Thanks for Parts 1 and 2. Did Part 3 ever get published?

By: Vinícius

Vinícius — Fri, 04 May 2007 04:30:32 +0000

Good Job! I like to the you themes! TKS!

By: Paise

Paise — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 02:55:10 +0000

I have Jumpline as my hosting service and the tech’s installed Word Press; however, the few pithy themes are hideous and I would like to add something more elegant and becoming not necessarily to match my website template but at least to look as pretty since I want to link them together when complete.

Each time I add a theme and then go into the admin section, I have no graphics in the way the others show graphics. I can’t seem to add anything without causing more of a mess. CSS was just coming out but was not the end-all/be-all of html programming when I built my website.

Should I scrap it all and restart from scratch? My only reason to not do this is that I spent hours upon hours designing that website. In addition, I do not want my blog as my homepage. I want it off as a link to itself but accessible from the homepage through a link.

Any assistance is appreciated. I am tired of using My Space as it is not as professional freelance writer and novelist as using my domain site if you know what I mean.

Many thanks for any suggestions,

Paisley Place
http://www.paisleyplace.com
http://blog.myspace.com/paisleyplace

By: Roger

Roger — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 22:23:10 +0000

The WP template you are using is one of the most beautiful I have seen in years!

Gee! I would die to have one similar!!!

Roger Pilon

By: Tari Akpodiete

Tari Akpodiete — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 12:26:40 +0000

well, Joombla and Mambo are more properly compared to Drupal than to WordPress. with enough time and skill, one can bend any system to one’s will, but while they are all CMS’, they aren’t all meant to do the same thing.

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 19:29:04 +0000

I would have to give WP the thumbs up over Joomla. I find it so much easier to setup and tweak. I think it has less of a learning curve then Joomla which will likely make it the CMS choice of the masses.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 15:28:37 +0000

Having had to use Joomla! quite extensively in the past, I’m not a fan of it!!!

It’s resource heavy, buggy as hell, and many of the modules (including ALL of the shopping carts available for it) are poorly coded. Quite frankly, Joomla and mambo (the original incarnation of Joomla!) are too much for most users needs. I mean, who in their right mind wants to see another site with a cheesy Joomla! user poll???

Give me a break – and give me wordpress, with its light, flexible, well-written code any time!!!