Recreating my Yahoo-based website with wordpress

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  joedelsole · Member · Mar 18, 2008 at 3:27 pm

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  I recently created this website fantasybaseball101.com using Yahoo and using Yahoo’s software Site Builder.

  What I need instead of this is a site that can be remotely updated by many users.

  Fantasybaseball101.com represents my new business, it’s a fantasy baseball website that provides daily articles and other content about fantasy baseball. I hope to eventually make money with advertisements and, way down the line, with subscriptions or sales of related products.

  The difficulty I am having is in modifying the website each night to place new articles on the site. I get articles from 7 different authors, so there is a lot of site editing I have to do. Cutting and pasting, creating new pages, creating tables, forms etc.

  WordPress was recommened to me as something that may be useable to create a site that looks mostly similar to what I created with fantasybaseball101.com, but that can be updated remotely and by many different users.

  Do you think wordpress could be used to create a reasonably facsimile of what I created at fantasybaseball101.com? We are willing to pay for added features beyond the basic free features. Could such a similar looking site be updated remotely and by many users?

  Thanks,
  Joe

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 18, 2008 at 3:43 pm

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  Sounds like WordPress.com is NOT what you’re looking for. Paid ads, for instance, are only available to VIP members, who pay over $200 per month.

  WordPress.org, however, is surprisingly versatile.
  Differences outlined here:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=3700&replies=1

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  joedelsole · Member · Mar 18, 2008 at 6:34 pm

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  raincoaster, thank you for your reply.

  I am likely not going to be utilizing advertisements for a while, keeping the site completely free for the time being. Do you think I could use wordpress.com to recreate a site that looks like and functions like my site fantasybaseball101.com?

  Thanks.

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 18, 2008 at 10:30 pm

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  Frankly, no. WordPress.com doesn’t offer a dynamic front page like that, showing the latest from each of all of your authors. You could easily enough do it with WordPress independently-hosted, but I don’t know of any way to do it here.