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Wordpress best practice

Posted 08.03.2013 @ 5.19PM

In my business, I come up with the strategy, marketing and design for websites. I use a few developers, and they all seem to make use of the back-end of Wordpress differently.

I've had benefits (bullet points), and page content on pages saved as widgets, requiring the user to put in some rudimentary HTML code. The items in the footer saved as widgets, custom fields added into posts to add things like author of a post.

Now I didn't specify how I wanted these things for the client in the brief, so I can't really complain as long as they work. But to me, they seem to be a little "clunky" and confusing to clients who aren't tech saavy.

Are there generally best practices around for this kind of thing? I do stipulate that the site must adhere to best practice.

I'm a HTML and CSS guy, so it's a bit beyond me and to be honest, coding doesn't interest me and I try to stay away.

Thoughts?

Posted 08.03.2013 @ 5.48PM

What sort of HTML are we talking about and is there a WYSIWYG?

Posted 08.03.2013 @ 6.16PM

<lable> tags for the bullet points i mentioned.

Wordpress comes with WYSIWYG and HTML by default for it's posts and pages... not sure what you're trying to get at there?

Posted 08.03.2013 @ 6.49PM (Edited 08.03.2013 @ 7.04PM)

Why are you using label tags? They're only meant for forms.

If they were using something like Advanced Custom Fields then there may not have been a WYSIWYG.

If it's just a list and there's a WYSIWYG available then why do you need to be writing markup?

Posted 11.03.2013 @ 9.34AM (Edited 11.03.2013 @ 9.36AM)

Hi Adam, when it comes to WP as you have experience there is more then one way to go about providing the end solution, in regards to what is best practice then I would really make sure that you ask how the developer is going to go about completing what you are requesting within the job, eg how the page/part of the page will be updateable, that way you can see if it is going to be easy for your client. Getting a non tech client to code html is less desirable then having a wysiwyg in place. (With WP you can provide either of those as an option).

Your question about best practice kind off falls into client usability of the administration system of WP which needs some planing before hand on which method within WP will serve the purpose of the client best.

Posted 11.03.2013 @ 11.37AM

Thanks Bjarni, That's what I was thinking it might be a case of... I just need to get better (and more exact) at writing developer briefs at the end of the day.

Thanks

(Kipp, I probably wasn't clear enough: I don't do any coding. I know a little HTML and CSS - so that's the limit of my knowledge)

Posted 19.04.2013 @ 8.50AM

my brain hurts