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Hello fellow forum members.
I have had TTG plugins installed on my computer for awhile, Pages, Publisher, Gallery, WordPress etc
and I have had a play around with them and made something, now I would like to get into finally and finish my website,
While I like the Wordpress blog pluggin I want to know how many people build their websites around that pluggin or do they simply run the wordpress part in parallel with the rest of the pluggins?
Cheers
Chris.
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My site is Pages based with a blog.
I am also running some mini-sites with WordPress using Theme for WordPress.
And I'm considering branching off the Workshops portion of my site and converting that into a separate WordPress site.
Rod
Just a user with way too much time on his hands.
www.rodbarbee.com
ttg-tips.com, Backlight 2/3 test site
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My site is Pages based with the Wordpress plugin running the /blog. If I would start a new site now, it would be Wordpress based.
Why I didn't do this for my current site? The WP CE3 wasn't available at that time.
Daniel Leu | Photography
DanielLeu.com
My digital playground (eg, Backlight tips&tricks): lab.DanielLeu.com
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Wow, both great photos and websites.
Thanks for your input and quick replies.
A question to both of you, why would you prefer to go a full wordpress based site over what you have already done?
Cheers Chris.
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WordPress allows you greater control over the number and content of your pages, allows you to blog, provides greater SEO benefits than a traditional static website, is extensible and customizable in to a greater degree using plugins, and allows you to use WordPress' built-in navigation manager for your entire site (including galleries) using the technique outlined in our documentation:
http://ce3wiki.theturninggate.net/doku. … r_of_magic
Reasons that you might opt to use CE3 Pages as your base instead of WordPress are the well-defined "Galleries" page, and the ability to use one of our gallery/slideshow options for your "Home" page. In this case, you can still use the navigation trick (because you're still using WordPress in an off-root location), and you'll still get the SEO benefits, etc.
If it's Pages vs. WordPress, then I think WordPress is the clear winner if you're willing to go through the setup. But there's also an argument to be made for combining the two, mostly depending on what you'd like your Home page to be. I think my preferred approach is to begin with CE3 Pages, but export only the Home and Galleries pages, then to rely on WordPress for everything else.
But if you don't care for the CE3 Pages "Home" page, then you can achieve the same using just CE3 Theme for WordPress with CE3 Auto Index being the foundation for your galleries hierarchy.
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