stamfordscoob

We recently took ownership of our new website which has been developed with WordPress Pro and in my opinion its crap and dull. All I hear from our web developer is 'oh it cant do that' 'that's a long term development issue' and so on.

The latest being that any event we add, is automatically listed by the date we add it, rather than in order they are taking place - wtf? Oh and changing it is a 'long term development issue' quel surprise Frankly I've built better sites using Googlesites and Yola -both free.

So, not being much of a techie, I tried to find websites created by Wordpress to see what its capable of but not had much luck. Can anyone suggest any?

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brendy76

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www. valpar.co.uk is my company one, I look after it, if you go onto the wordpress site, they have quite a lot of sample sites.
Wordpress is rather limited though but suits some sites.

ScoobyWon't

Just install a plugin. It really is as simple as that.

I built www.rvtg.org.uk which has an event calender. It took less than two minutes to install and configure.

Either your developer is clueless, or he is trying to drag it out so he still has a job.

markjmd

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20 great corporate websites made with WordPress

hill79

Wordpress is a blogging tool at its heart, doing anything outside of its original purpose becomes fiddly but is possible. There are loads of plugins to add functionality, but finding one that does exactly what you want and is written properly (lots aren't) is the trick. It sounds to me like your developer can't be bothered, tbh 'a long term development issue' is a meaningless phrase designed to put you off.

As an ultimate solution I'd suggest getting a site built without the use of a framework like Wordpress - get them to write the code around what you want the site to do, not build the site based on what their framework is able to do - ie, get them to do it properly

Luminous

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I don't see where you calendar is working on this site, any chance of a link as I too want to install a calendar for my Wordpress site.

RA Dunk

I use http://tri.be/wordpress-events-calendar/ on my site (currently offline) it's easy to use and if you get the Pro version they offer pretty good support.

JayM

We specialise in WordPress hosting over at freshsites.co.uk, and also do a lot of WordPress design/dev through our sister company at nWebDesign.co.uk.. Wordpress has certainly come a long way and is far from just a blogging platform these days

Meakin

I'm a web designer and use Wordpress for the majority of our websites. It's a very basic but well crafted content management system as standard but can be expanded easily and very cheaply to be perfect for what you need.

A good example is my own site http://ibiza2013.net - it's primarily an event-based website and as such it's important to have a well implemented calendar, which it does .

I could have a look at what plugin you're using, as I've tested most of them on the market!

ScoobyWon't

It's the same one Dunk has linked to. It's not showing on my site as all events must have passed (so it has nothing to display).

f1_fan

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Got to agree with the guys here saying Word Press has moved on from a blogging tool. It's a lot more of a content management system these days and has plugins aplenty. I have used it a little, but am far from an expert in it. I beleive the biggest issue is choosing which plugins are right for you.

To the OP - those sound like the sort of answers someone with a limited knowledge of Word Press would give - find someone else

stamfordscoob

Thanks all for your comments. Sums up what I thought, our guy hasnt got the knowledge needed to utilise the potential of WordPress soI will have to do some homework.

Good to get the feedback from so many

wrx_driver

"WordPress Pro" sounds like someone using a Wordpress theme & selling it as their own to me.

Wordpress is a fantastic platform that can be made to do pretty much anything you want. Great to develop for and great for the end user to work with.

I've been building sites since 1998 and now find myself using Wordpress for prettymuch everything barring ecommerce sites (not long before we use it for that too) it really is an awesome platform.

Mark's link is from 2009 but still shows the power of WP. 3 years later it's moved on miles.

Cheers

hill79

I missed the 'Wordpress Pro' comment before - Would that be a paid account on WordPress.com by any chance? If that's the case I can understand why your developer is having difficulty doing what you're asking!

JTinnovations

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Our site uses Wordpress...I like it because I can tweak it really easily without recourse to a "developer"

I have installed quite a few plugins and it is easy to tweak them to suit my needs. It is not the best site in the world, but it works well for us.