Can WordPress do this?
-
Hi,
I don’t know where to start. I want a website, not a blog. I understand that this is possible with WordPress. However, I cannot find a theme that will let me make it look the way I want it to look. Basically, I want it to look like this: http://rutasepetys.com/Static home page with nav bar large in the middle. Other pages pretty basic off of that. I do not want a WordPress blog. I have a blog on another site. I want to link to that.
I own a .net domain name I’d like to use.
I have wasted hours on wix and weebly trying to figure out how to make their themes do what I want (be the same as the website I gave above), only to find out there is no way to make it work with them.
I’d like some answers from WordPress before I do the same here. Is there any way I can make my website look like the link I gave as an example using WordPress? Own domain, no ads, ability to have a good number of pages (more than 5), ability to have home page with nav bar located differently than the other pages, other pages with ‘standard’ nav bar locations in header/footer, texture or design as the through image, not typical photographs.
I am not a coder, not extremely familiar with in-depth tech stuff. But I do know how I want it to look. Other sites were not able to do this, or perhaps their drag & drop was not able to accommodate. I don’t want to get into hours of learning how to code – I’m a writer, not a tech wizard.
Appreciate answers.
Kara
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
-
That site is not hosted here at WordPress.COM and your site at http://authorkarastewart.wordpress.com/ is hosted by WordPress.COM. To achieve your end goal your can hire a web host http://wordpress.rg/hosting and set your own WordPress.ORG install.
WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG account, then click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, https://wordpress.org/support/register.php so you can post to the support forums there.
Resetting your WordPress.ORG password http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password
WordPress.org support docs are at https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page -
Timethief,
Thank you. I think.
I realize that the site I gave as an example ( http://rutasepetys.com/) is not hosted at WordPress. That was not my question. My question is – is WordPress.com, of which I now have signed up for, capable of being formatted in the same manner as that site using the themes available?
I’m not sure what WordPress.org has to do with it. Unless you are saying that WordPress.com cannot look like the example site I gave and WordPress.org can?
-
If you a WordPress.ORG software install and know how code then you can hack a free theme free of charge and render it to suit your preferences.
WordPress.COM is a turnkey operation with off the shelf themes. Here every blog wearing the same theme uses the same underlying template found on the live demo sites, and we bloggers cannot access and edit the underlying template.
The only themes we can use on WordPress.com hosted blogs are licensed and adapted to run on our multiuser software the themes are found here http://wordpress.com/themes/ and in your dashboard at > Appearance > Themes
There is no FTP access to free hosted WordPress.com blogs for security reasons and we cannot:
upload any third party themes,
create child themes,
create our own themes,
edit templates,
create own own layouts,
or use stylesheets from other themes.See: http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/adding-new-themes/
There is no upgrade you can purchase here that changes that reality.Granted that we can purchase an annually renewable premium bundle of upgrades that includes a CSS editing upgrade and we can do some limited CSS editing only.
I do no code nor do I want to learn how to code. To create a website rather than a blog see here: website not blog.
You want to reposition theme elements and do not know how to code either. See here for details on purchasing the annually renewable Premium bundle http://store.wordpress.com/plans/premium/ that contains a custom design upgrade required for CSS editing: Custom design – Frequently Asked Questions
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/#frequently-asked-questions
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/editing-css/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/custom-fonts/Prior to purchasing an upgrade bundle, I suggest that you please use this link https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization#postform so you can copy and paste your text from your first post above into a new thread that will appear in the CSS Forum where you will get definite answers to your CSS editing questions.
-
-
Thanks very much, timethief. I think the upshot for me, a non-tech person, is that WordPress is not for me. I’d need a lot more tech knowledge, time and patience to make it look like what I want. That the WordPress themes cannot be altered enough to make them look like my example site is the info that I needed.
I thank you very much for your time and reply.
-
- The topic ‘Can WordPress do this?’ is closed to new replies.
WordPress.com Forums 