Although WordPress is best known as a blogging platform, it’s ability to function as a standard Content Management System (CMS) has been recognized and implemented by tens-of-thousands of web developers world wide.
If you are wondering why professionally designed websites are being developed around a FREE blogging platform, read on!
The Short Answer
When WordPress is used as the backend CMS for a website, the site administrator has the ability to manage the content of the site. If properly developed, virtually all the text content of tne website can be managed through an intuitive, web based user interface. A dynamic, database driven website is available to virtually everyone.
Who wouldn’t want their own custom WordPress smiley icon?
I often visit at Mike Cherim’s Beast-Blog. Mike is a genius withto WordPress, and I always learn something new when Mike writes about tweaking WordPress. Adding Your Own WordPress Smilies explains how to make your own personal smilies / emoticons for use with WordPress. Following Mike’s instructions, I was able to make a personal 1955 Design smiley in a matter of minutes. :1955:
Using a text editor, open the functions.php file in the wp-include directory. Look for an array that contains the following code:
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I have always thought that one of the main flaws of many WordPress themes is that the main page navigation, when called by using the wp_list_pages() function, applies a title to each of the navigation links with whatever value is used in the the_title() of that particular page.
