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With WordPress the learning curve is small and there are a great many resources for training online, many of which are free! WordPress sites are easy to understand with a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) text editor. With a little training you and your staff will be able to clearly understand how the administrative side of WordPress fits into what is seen on the site.

Here are 5 things you might consider before having your site built:

1) What content will you want to include? This might include text, photos or video.

2) What kind of categories are you going to need to organize that content?

3) Do you have samples, or ideas as to what you will want the design to look like?

4) How will you or your staff go about maintaining the WordPress site when it comes to updating content?

5) Will you need training or assistance?

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Plan Your WordPress Website

WordPress takes chunks of content and assembles them into HTML pages.  Therefore, if you have a site in which you would like to include

multiple testimonials from clients, you would want to enter each testimonial as a separate chunk or “post” vs. entering the data as a “page.”

It can be costly in time to break

apart chunks when you have a lot all in one location, therefore planning how you want to layout your content before build your site  is essential.

It may help to write your categories on note cards and then lay the note cards out in a dropdown menu like structure to get an idea of how your site’s content will be arranged. Although the finished site may differ from the site mapped with note cards this is a good start. The idea is to be able to simplify content and restructure chunks to appear on the site as needed, or “dynamically” as site visitors searche for content.

Depending on the content you have, you can label it within “categories” and even “sub-categories,” making it easier to find in “search.”

Items that are not going to change, such as your “About us,” “Contact Us,” or “Services” page can be set up as static “pages” vs. setting these up as “posts.”

For example:

Press releases: individual posts

About Us:  Set up as a page

Contact Us:  Set up as a page

Testimonails: Set up as individaul posts

Customer Specials: Might setup as a password-protected page

Blog: Set up as individual posts