On a recent visit with my mum and her husband I was discussing a website that they are involved with for the Southern Highlands University of the Third Age (U3A) http://sohiu3a.org.au. He mentioned that the site is managed using wordpress which I had only ever heard of in respect to the WordPress.com site. A quick bit of research led me to WordPress.Org and suggested that I’d be very interested.
All I can say since then is that I’ve been very impressed. The download and install via my hosting company was incredibly painless using Softaculous, and getting some basic content up, customising a child template based on the default “twentytwelve” that it ships with was rather simple. Even getting some of my existing PHP code to work as a custom page and connect to a pre-existing database was relatively simple.
For further information on how to setup a child them and customise it within WordPress use the more link below.