{"id":289,"date":"2014-06-12T21:14:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T11:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/?p=289"},"modified":"2014-08-09T16:54:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T06:54:31","slug":"how-to-set-up-photography-website-using-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/2014\/06\/how-to-set-up-photography-website-using-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Set Up a Photography Website Using WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s say I’m a professional photographer and I need a new website. The best thing to do generally is to ask someone else to do it. But what if I’m just starting out and don’t have money to spend on a fancy website? I can get a basic website for free using WordPress.<\/p>\n

First of all, I’m going to create a mockup of my new website:<\/p>\n

\"Home<\/p>\n

Home page should have a nice big image, a heading and a menu bar. The gallery page should have thumbnails. Visitor should be able to click on any thumbnail to view a bigger photo. Something like this:<\/p>\n

\"Gallery<\/p>\n

Looks good! Next, I need to decide where I’m going to host my website. WordPress.com looks like a good option: it’s free (as long as your website address ends with .wordpress.com) and it is maintained by the same people that make WordPress.<\/p>\n

Go to www.wordpress.com<\/a> and sign up for a new account.<\/p>\n

\"Creating<\/p>\n

The address of my website is going to be acmephotography.wordpress.com<\/p>\n

\"Sign<\/p>\n

This is how my brand new website looks like:<\/p>\n

\"Brand<\/p>\n

Not very close to the mockup, isn’t it? Let’s fix it.<\/p>\n

The next step is to choose a theme for my website. The problem with WordPress themes is that there are just too many of them. After some poking around I decided to try Twenty Twelve theme<\/a> by the WordPress team. It looks nice and crisp. It has a menu on top. Also, it’s free! Here’s how to set it up.<\/p>\n

Go to ‘My Blog’ on WordPress.com and click ‘Dashboard’ link there.<\/p>\n

\"My<\/p>\n

Move mouse over ‘Appearances’ link in the menu on left, then select ‘Themes’:<\/p>\n

\"wordpress-themes-menu\"<\/p>\n

Search for ‘Twenty Twelve’ theme and click Activate button:<\/p>\n

\"Activating<\/p>\n

Close the dialog confirming that the theme has been activated. Go to Settings, then General. Set site title to ‘Acme Photography’. Remove tagline (set it to empty):<\/p>\n

\"General<\/p>\n

Don’t forget to click ‘Save Changes’ button. Now click on website name on the top left to view your website.<\/p>\n

\"View<\/p>\n

Behold: my new photography website, Acme Photography:<\/p>\n

\"Website<\/p>\n

It has a title and a menu bar. However the front page doesn’t look right yet.\u00a0I explain how to configure front page<\/a> in my next post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s say I’m a professional photographer and I need a new website. The best thing to do generally is to ask someone else to do it. But what if I’m just starting out and don’t have money to spend on a fancy website? I can get a basic website for free using WordPress. First of … Continue reading How to Set Up a Photography Website Using WordPress<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[22,23,21],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-photography","tag-website","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}