{"id":1460,"date":"2011-01-13T23:23:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T17:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveenbalani.com\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2020-06-13T08:02:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T02:32:48","slug":"creating-a-travel-blog-using-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navveenbalani.dev\/index.php\/articles\/creating-a-travel-blog-using-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a travel blog using wordpress"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been working for some time on creating my travel blog on word press. Here are some insights on my experiences on creating a travel blog on word press that you may find helpful –<\/p>\n

Selecting a theme for travel blog
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WordPress offers numerous free themes, but finding the right theme is always a challenge. I was looking was a 3 column type layout, where I could configure categories and posts on the home page dynamically \u2013 more like a newspaper theme. \u00a0Goggled through Top 20 , Top 50 travel themes and you would find loads of them ..Some of the short listed themes which I evaluated were \u2013 Gorilla Travel Magazine theme<\/a> which offered a magazine style layout , Global new themes<\/a> which was freely available, which had a good magazine layout but I had to customize it heavily to covert it to travel blog. Finally, I bought a theme and customized it, as it offered a magazine style layout and I was able to use it for my travel blog.<\/a> Though I need to add lot of stuff and contents on my site, but using the theme, I am able to organize my content effectively.<\/p>\n

Image Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n

A travel blog needs to have a good Image Gallery. For Image Galley, I went with two plug ins, NextGen Gallery<\/strong><\/a> plugin which is widely used and Photo Gallery FX <\/strong><\/a>plugin a Flash XML based plug-in. Along with NextGen Gallery, I used WordPress NextGen Gallery<\/strong> <\/a>View<\/a> <\/strong>which offers JQuery showcase for my Image Gallery.<\/p>\n

I liked the the NextGen Gallery widget which I have used as a side-bar for my sideshows, picking up the required images from the Image Gallery. I also found the Photo Gallery FX plugin gallery very attractive and have used this in the Image Gallery category sections, Have a look at the Image Gallery section at Image Gallery section<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Photo Gallery FX plugin can be used with multiple post, but only drawback is you need to manually create the XML files required by Flash plugin.<\/p>\n

Editing Images<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cutting down Image size and creating thumbnails for my images was other daunting task. I went with Picasso to cut down the image size without comprising much on the image quality. I also used the thumb nails from Next Gen Gallery plugin to good effect where ever required. (mainly on my home page, to optimize loading the home page)<\/p>\n

Videos Editing<\/strong><\/p>\n

I decided to host the videos of my site and created flash videos for optimizing space and bandwidth on my site.\u00a0 For editing video, I used Any Video <\/a>converter, which is capable of creating snippets of videos and provide an option to export it as Flash videos.<\/p>\n

Embedding flash videos was done through Easy Flash Embed plugin<\/strong> which required the URL of the flash video. Have a look at the Video gallery created so far at\u00a0 – Video Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n

Selecting the right sub domain for travel blog<\/strong>
\nOnce I had the theme customized and working locally, next was to upload it to my subdomain. Since I was using wordpress 3.0 , I used the multi site feature for creating a new subdomain to host this.<\/p>\n

Hope this gives you some insight if you plan to create your own travel blog. Enjoy: )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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