Using WordPress Enterprise Theme to develop enterprise website experience summary

Whether it is a domestic CMS Weimeng, PHPCMS, or a longer history of Dupal, Joomla, or the most popular international WordPress, the development of enterprise websites can achieve the same effect. WordPress development enterprise website is, to put it bluntly, the development of an WordPress Corporate Themes. And the main thing that makes a corporate theme different from other WordPress themes is the page layout, page structure and the type of content managed.

WordPress Enterprise Themes Common Content Modules

First of all, the enterprise theme must have a navigation menu. Inside the navigation will generally include the home page, about us, news, products or services, case display, talent recruitment, contact information, online message and other modules.

• The home page will generally have a slideshow Banner, with a few strong impact pictures to show the slogan or main products, the following is a list of news, a list of major products, corporate profile, contact information and so on. That is to say, the home page will generally put the navigation on the column, condensed, pick the most important part of these columns in the home page display.
• And the news listings page is usually a list of headlines, or images with news headlines and two or three lines of news summaries.
• The case display is usually a list of pictures of some cases, and the presentation is usually similar to the product list below.
• A product listing will generally be a list page with a product image plus the product name. If online sales are involved, there will also be a product price and related features.
• Talent Acquisition is similar to a news or product listing page, a list that displays some job information.
• As for the about us, contact, and online message sections, they are generally single pages.

WordPress Enterprise Theme Development Ideas

Managing different types of data using article types

Unlike blog themes, WordPress enterprise themes may be richer in the type of content inside, there are news, there are products, some will also have case studies. And each type of content data will often be different. This time with WordPress custom post types to create a new post type to manage each type of data is the most convenient.

Adding special content for different types of data using custom classification methods

In addition to the standard headlines, body copy, categorized listings, and tagged featured images, each type of content may have some additional data, such as:

• Products will have data on origin, brand, price, size, etc.
• Cases will have data such as client name, case picture, completion date, etc.
• Job postings will have data on educational requirements, work experience, job responsibilities, etc.

If these data only need to appear in the body of the content, the most direct way is to add to the body. But sometimes we need to add some special style to these contents, this time added directly to the content inside the management is not convenient, we can use custom fields plug-ins such as: Metabox, Piklist |, Advanced Custom Fields and other plug-ins to add these customized data data units. Displayed in the foreground directly using the WordPress standard get_post_meta function to get the display is sufficient.

Commonly used plugins when developing enterprise themes

• For the list page, there is usually a paging system, you need to use wp-pagenavi digital paging plugin.
• If you need to show the number of views, you need to use the wp-pageviews plugin.
• The custom field plugins mentioned above: Metabox, Piklist, Advanced Custom Field.
• Because of WordPress performance issues, we need to add a content static plugin, recommended use wp super cache plugin.
• SEO is an essential part of running a website, and the best SEO plugin for WordPress is the Yoast SEO plugin.

Plug-ins introduced above, the same type of plug-ins to use a can, the same type of plug-ins do not colleagues use two or more than two, in case of conflict, resulting in data loss, the loss will be big.

After the development of enterprise themes, we generally need to help companies to train one or two website managers, because the operation and management of the WordPress background are very simple, so the background of the training work is very simple, usually one or two demonstrations can be mastered almost.