I know some folk on here use Wordpress as a CMS and it's something I want to try out. However I need to know if I'm going to be able to do the following...
1. Events List - what I'm looking for is something that will initially just show a list of upcoming events in a side bar, simply as something like:
"29th Aug - Open Mic Night"
"2nd Sept - Games Night"
Then the user can click on the link and be taken to a page that has full details about the event. Ideally I'd like to be able to log in, stick in the details for the event, and Wordpress would automatically display the events in order depending on when the event takes place.
Alternatively it might be ok to have an actual calendar image displayed, with any dates containing an event being in bold, and if you hover over that date, the event title is displayed - then if you click the date, you get taken to the full event details page.
Are either of these possible (or even a combination of the 2), and if so what plug-ins would you recommend to achieve this?
2. News items - want to be able to insert a page of news, and have a truncated version of this story appear on another page, alongside 4 other recent news items. The user then clicks for more info and gets the full article. The page with the truncated versions would display news from different sections on the same page. e.g:
GENERAL NEWS:
Snippet one
Snippet two
Snippet three
etc.
SPORTS NEWS:
Snippet one
Snippet two
etc.
Is this easy enough to do?
Help and advice would be appreciated, cheers.
1. Events List - what I'm looking for is something that will initially just show a list of upcoming events in a side bar, simply as something like:
"29th Aug - Open Mic Night"
"2nd Sept - Games Night"
Then the user can click on the link and be taken to a page that has full details about the event. Ideally I'd like to be able to log in, stick in the details for the event, and Wordpress would automatically display the events in order depending on when the event takes place.
Alternatively it might be ok to have an actual calendar image displayed, with any dates containing an event being in bold, and if you hover over that date, the event title is displayed - then if you click the date, you get taken to the full event details page.
Are either of these possible (or even a combination of the 2), and if so what plug-ins would you recommend to achieve this?
2. News items - want to be able to insert a page of news, and have a truncated version of this story appear on another page, alongside 4 other recent news items. The user then clicks for more info and gets the full article. The page with the truncated versions would display news from different sections on the same page. e.g:
GENERAL NEWS:
Snippet one
Snippet two
Snippet three
etc.
SPORTS NEWS:
Snippet one
Snippet two
etc.
Is this easy enough to do?
Help and advice would be appreciated, cheers.
