All Narfed Up photography and words by Bryan Villarin

A quick search of the support forums and codex are always a good start. The forums particularily can yeild some ideas on how to proceed.
WordPress does have a wide variety of plug-ins available as well, which can seriously enhance and add many features.

Posted by Brendan on 26 April 2005 @ 9pm

Thanks Brendan! Any leads you think would be worthwhile reads to make things not look so “blog-ish”?

Posted by Bryan on 26 April 2005 @ 10pm

It will depend on what you are after basically. Alex recent ran a theme competition so there’s a source of ‘pre-cut’ themes to play with. The Weblog Tools Collection is another source for plugins, themes and the like. Start with the basics, and fiddle with some of the great templates available, once you get familiar with the_post loop etc, you’ll be able to branch out and start hacking.

Posted by Brendan on 26 April 2005 @ 10pm

I suppose I should install Xampp and jump in. Would you suggest looking at one of the more simple themes and looking at its code?

I saw the theme competition - so much stuff!

Posted by Bryan on 26 April 2005 @ 11pm

If you mean that you’d like to learn how to turn WP into a CMS, then look no further than this theme and its companion plugins: http://www.semiologic.com/projects/sem-theme/

Posted by MacManX on 26 April 2005 @ 11pm

Thanks James! I’ll look into that as my first stop then. Boo-yah!

Posted by Bryan on 27 April 2005 @ 6am

Have a look at Holy Shmoly! Donncha, friend of mine, is one of the Wordpress developers.

Posted by Mel on 28 April 2005 @ 2am

Thanks Mel - Donncha’s been on my blogroll and news aggregator for quite sometime.

Posted by Bryan on 28 April 2005 @ 8am

I find just leeching off the other WP users out there seems to get me by. I’d love to give back… but hey… I know squat.

Posted by Chris on 28 April 2005 @ 5pm

I was thinking the same thing - but I think I need to understand a bit more, especially where I am in this whole thing for the organization’s website. I definitely want to be a major factor in this. If I’m not learning anything, I’m getting worse.

Posted by Bryan on 28 April 2005 @ 8pm