I am grasshopper.
I didn’t think this would be that big a deal, but then I didn’t think my first marriage would be either. I’m in the process of done with tuning this theme and implementation of WordPress so it can:
- Provide an outlet for displaying and selling fine images (art photography).
- Some sort of E-commerce system or paypal plugin
- Integration with SmugMug (which I really like)
- Give me a place to share my work and experiences.
- Chat / Blog
- Do book and product reviews
- Rant about setting up Worpress as a CMS for a photographer and businessperson
- Who is also a pretty decent geek
- With an MBA
- Use this experience to build and integrate a new site for an artist archive.
- Make this a forum for Artists who need a good understanding of business
- Get feedback on a course I’m developing called “Business for Artists”
- Not designed for any artistic medium – so maybe I’ll need to create a seperate blog for that?(great – just what I need – more wordpress setups)
Now that I have described the requirements for this project, I’m off toward the Path of WordPress Enlightenment.
Better go search the Codex for a few hours.
[updated]
Categories are important to using WP as a CMS.
Many folks just start out blogging and then create new categories as they see fit. that’s fine for them. If you are going to create a good CMS using WP then you need to spend some time thinking like an Information Architect (IA). Next post starts to discuss this.