Making Your Posts Appear Seperate From Your Home Page On Wordpress

Another feature I had to figure out was how to move my “Blog” page, away from my home page. That is I wanted the page where my posts appeared to not be the home page, but I different page labeled as being the “Blog.” The way I figured out how to do this was to create a different “Home” page and add it to my “Custom Menu.” Create a “Blog” page, and add that to my custom menu. Then I changed my settings on the dashboard to make “Home” my default home page, and make “Blog” the place where my posts appeared.

Custom Menus on Wordpress

One feature of Wordpress that I learned from this assignment was how to build a “Custom Menu.” I had my various pages in the wrong order and had to play around with what order to put them in. The tool is pretty intuitive once you get started, you essentially just name a menu, add all of your pages to it, and then adjust the order by dragging the page names to their desired location.

Wordpress "Bright Page"

I have decided on “Brightpage 1.5” which isn't as dynamic as “Sliding Door,” but had a clean look with minimal tweaking. One major problem, which was only major because I didn’t notice it right away, was that it didn’t include my “Meta” widget and I was not able to log back in to the site without some distress. Of course if I had been more observant then that wouldn’t have been a problem.

Wordpress "Sliding Door" 2.6.1 Theme

I’m not a big fan of the default theme for building a Wordpress webpage. I think it looks fine for building a blog, but looks to “bloggy” to fit build a library webpage around. After doing some investigating I found a few themes that looked like thhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifey could be clean, neat, and functional. “Sliding Door 2.6.1” was a theme that I thought had the most potential, and it probably would if I had enough time to tweak the color scheme and play around with the dynamic sliding menu at the top of the page. After tweaking it for an hour or so I decided that the quirks of this theme were causing me too many problems. If I had unlimited time/money to build a site with this theme, I could potentially have made a very attractive website. But for the purposes of this assignment it wasn’t looking good enough to satisfy me, and the modifications were going to take up too much time.