I have a website design idea, I’d like to use wordpress – what to study?

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Hi, I’m trying to help a friend with a website – and I’d like to use wordpress for it, as I think it’s premade for this sort of thing – a sort of food blog, with recipes and videos and top recommendations and all that.

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I’d like help in terms of which areas I should look into(I’m a bit confused as to what I should learn, how to use the plugins, or maybe specific wordpress things), here are my current thoughts: I’ve looked through the plugins and I think wp-delicious would work great for the recipes, with one of the popular foody themes. And I think I need to use elementor to more or less place things where I want.

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I’d like to make it look like in the image atached, and I would appreciate advice on where I need to dig and what I need to read about so I can do the layout as in the picture(which is a jigsaw of other food blogs). Because on the one hand, I think a lot of it can be done with a theme, but then, the theme needs to work with the plugin, and I feel like elementor could be used for finishing customisations, but before I go reading, I figured I’d ask you guys for pointers in the right direction.

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I used to build sites using wordpress, very simple ones, a decade ago. I have already found a free webhost and installed wordpress on it. I’m ok with writing some java script, react, html / css, but by no means am I even junior level.

Edit:
This has a picture of what sort of design I mean:
https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/s/aTIws2g2sz
Sorry, editing from a phone…

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4 Comments

  2. I would look for YT tutorials specific for Guteneberg which is the native WordPress block editor. But I imagine that if this is a project done for fun Elementor could work as well

    [I wrote a guide](https://wordpressadvisor.io/blog/how-to-make-a-wordpress-website-the-ultimate-guide-to-plan-and-create-a-fast-website) which is an introduction on how to build WordPress websites (without technical knowledge). There I’ve listed some concepts that may help you regardless of the page builder you decide to use. In your case you can probably **skip** these sections from that guide: 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 11 – maybe some other sections as well if you don’t plan to accept payments

    By the way I’m actually working on a YouTube tutorial for building a WP website 😀 so if you have questions feel free to send them

  3. The good news is that, at least starting out, you can just setup WordPress, add your recipes plugin, pick a relatively clean theme from the free WordPress theme directory, and… get a pretty decent site setup with no additional coding, and maybe only another couple of “utility” plugins for SEO, maybe caching, and maybe image optimization. Assuming your free hosting will support even that.

    Since you were last involved WordPress has gotten a new “block” editor that’s #%$ clumsy to use, and murder to customize if you’re not a full-stack programmer with time for the learning curve, but if you can get it working it’s fast. I’d consider using that instead of Elementor. “Bloat,” like “stupid,” is as bloat does, but Elementor really actually is one of the slowest, heaviest, and persistently vulnerable builders you can choose.

    If you do choose Elementor then there are a ton of free widget packs in the free WordPress plugin directory, and the Pro version of Elementor has better features.

    Regardless you should be able to use your editor of choice’s “loop” or “posts” modules/widgets/blocks to build that gallery in your photo, and most other components as well.

    Editors not withstanding, in general I’d get the site up and running with that basic posts+ recipes functionality working and then worry more about how you’re going to make it “pretty.” In the long run content is always *way* more expensive than design in terms of time and commitment. And it would be a shame if you put a ton of (unpaid?) work into it and your friend decided it’s too much hassle to add enough content to start attracting visitors.

 

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