Help starting my website
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Hi all
I want to start a website that collects a bunch of specific competitions, lets say golf competitions for good measure.
A user will be able to search through a bunch of different competitions and also be able to filter for his preferences, fx. “i want to find golf competitions in New York”.
A user will be able to click on a competition to get more information of this specific competition.
Maybe something Airbnb’ish would be good.
Do you guys have any recommendations on themes, and how a “newbie” like me can start this website through WordPress? I want to quickly start a website with say 40 competitions, and then expand from there.
Any feedback, hints or good ideas are welcome :).
Cheers
Klas
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What you are referring to is organizing posts by categories and that can be done on any theme here https://wordpress.com/themes/
I recommend using the step by step tutorial linked to the bottom of your Admin page at https://learn.wordpress.com
See also the “Video Quick Start” tutorial http://en.support.wordpress.com/video-quick-start/
The only relevant support documentation is all found at the Support link http://en.support.wordpress.com which is also linked to on the bottom of your Admin page.
See also
https://en.support.wordpress.com/five-step-blog-setup/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/five-step-website-setup/
See also these support docs:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/
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This is an one or the other situation. You have two choices on any blog
(1) All posts on the front page.
(2) A static front page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ and all posts on a different page.re: static front page
By default the front page of your blog displays all published posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top. That is for the convenience of your returning visitors who will not be happy to have to click through an About page every time they visit your blog as they come to read your most recently published content. Creating that situation can make some visitors annoyed – so annoyed that they stop following your blog.
However, if you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, then you can create a static front page called for example “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for all published posts (not pages) to display on in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top.
To do that create two pages first http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
After you do that you go to > Settings > Reading and make the designation change for each of the two page and click “save changes”.
A static page (select below)
Front page:
Posts page:The guide is here http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/
By default the front page of a blog displays all published posts in reverse chronological order with the most recently published post on top. When we publish a post on WordPress software the software automatically creates the same entry in the Archives, and on the dynamic (automatically updating) Categories and Tags pages in accord with the Categories and Tags we assign to that post.
So when we create custom menu and add the dynamic (automatically updating) category pages to that custom menu we create the appearance (not the reality) of posting to more than one page.
You need to be aware that:
1. There are differences between posts and pages described here
https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/2. There are differences between static pages we bloggers create https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ that will not automatically update, and dynamic category pages created by the software when you publish a post which will automatically update https://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/.
3. We organize posts by category assignment prior to publication. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/ and when we publish posts the dynamic category pages they automatically display on are determined by the categories we assign to them.
So the process you need to use is:
- Assign Categories to your Posts. https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories
- Create a custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#1-create-a-custom-menu
- Add only the dynamic category page links into the custom menu that you want to appear in that menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-category-pages and arrange them as you wish them to appear https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus
- Create pages for static content, not for posts https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
- Add any custom links and other items like static pages into your custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-custom-links and https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-pages
Here are some tips that you may find helpful when it comes to assigning categories and tags to your posts http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/03/15/quick-blog-post-tagging-tips/
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Thank you so much! I have now created a site that actually looks like something, with your help and some additional videos!
Check it out: http://www.case-competitions.com
I have an important question that i would really appreciate if you could help:
I want to create ads like on Airbnb.
The idea is that you find a competition here: http://case-competitions.dk/competitions
you should be able to filter the ads for location, date for the competition to start etc. Then you should be able to click on an ad and enter into a subpage for the specific ad like on Airbnb: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/4077504
Do you have any advice on how to do this? Right now I have just created a media file, but i’m not sure whether it can solve my problem with categories and filtering etc.
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I’m working on what you wrote above with posts and categories, but it it’s hard with the way i want it? Thanks for the help.
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