How to use WordPress to create a website rather than a blog.

Published December 12, 2010 | By Govindji Patel

WordPress may have originally been designed as a blogging tool when it first came out less than ten years ago— even now, when you first install it, it is set up for blogging purposes— but its function has been vastly expanded within that time period, and now it can be used to create websites as well. Here is how it is done.

First, log into the admin panel (i. e., with the URL plus “/wp-admin”) and log in with your user name and password. Your dashboard, media, links, and other items should appear on the screen. Then go to where it says “Pages” on the left- hand column, and click on “Add New.” Enter a title for the webpage, and type in your content in the text box beneath. Select a template from Page Attributes box. Scroll down untick allow comments if you do not want them on the page and finally, click on the box on the right- hand side that says “Publish.” You will probably need to create other pages on the site. If you are operating a business site, for example, then you will need to set up pages for “Services” and “Contact Us,” among others.

To make the homepage a static one (meaning that it does not vary with customer responses, which applies to dynamic webpages), click on “Reading” (under “Settings,” on the left) and select “Static Page” from the front page display. When you click on “Front page,” it should pull down a list of all the pages that you have created; select the one you want to make static. Then from “Full text” and “Summary,” choose the former and click “Save.”

Once all this is done, click on “View Site .” You should see the pages exactly as you created them.

It is also possible to create templates for your pages you will find information how to create templates in codex here. Once you have created template, click on edit page.on Pages Page On “Page Attribute,” on the right, you can choose either plain “template” or “one column, no sidebar.” or any custom template you created.Then click on “Update.”

If you wish to create a custom menu, then go to “Menus” under “Appearance” (left). Again, a list of all your pages should be there; you can choose any or all of them and add them to the menu. Go to “Primary Navigation” (it should say “top menu,” though you can make others) and save. To change the order of items, simply drag and drop them; and you can create sub- pages by dragging them to the right and indenting them.

This video will walk you through how to use wordpress for your business website and not use WordPress as blog.I have used twenty ten theme as example.
The procedure is same for any wordpress theme as long as it supports custom menu
How to add pages to custom menu and arrange pages in custom menu so that you can have drop down sub pages with an ease.

You can see a example of a business site created using wordpress

About Govindji Patel

I am Author/Publisher WordPress Coach and Consultant who enjoys writing tutorials and helping wordpress users build better WordPress website/blog.

Posted in Wordpress | Tagged blog, create, how, rather, website, wordpress

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John

Can you help? I need to understand how to be able to work on multiple sites in a native environment on my computer. I have a BITNAMI WP stack and want to know how to make more sites???

Thanks so much!!
Govindji Patel

I am sorry to say that have not worked with BITNAMI WP
so I do not know how that works.
You can check on my other article about using multisite feature where you will able create multiple wordpress websites with one install.
Lynn Loving

Hello Govindji, I am still plugging away on my website/blog up have helped me with. I have a couple of questions.

How do I start a new post on my pages if I were a subscriber or the administrator. I don’t see any choicrs on my pages, just a place to comment on the original post.

How do I choose a specific page in the dashboard to make a post to or add a file to?

Also, can I have more than one static page? I would like to have a page for training files that can be accessed on my site but there would be no need for any comments on that page.

Thanks bunches.
Lynn
Govindji Patel

Hello Lynn

You can add post by clicking on posts and add post and that will go on your post page once published.
You can have as many pages as you want by creating a new page same way created other pages.

Gov Patel
sam

Hi..Sir
I’m having basic webhosting package from Bigrock.in,
I wanted to make wordpress as my website rather than a blog.
My web site still in “Under construction”.Having Linux Webhosting Package with cPanel.I installed wordpress but its not live using Fantastico.
Is it necessary to change DNS if i have same company for both webhosting and domain name.
Thanks…
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Govindji Patel

If you have your domain name and host same company then you do not have to change DNS as its already set up
steve

Is there advantage to making a wordpress website rather than the blog?? all I need are categorie, links and video posts. Also Iif I start as a blog and later want to convert the established blog to a website is that a hassle?
thanks dude
Govindji Patel

If you want to use it to post videos and categories then you will be using wordpress as a blog and you can see how I have setup this website where are I have all my categories in menu at top and the pages at bottom menu.

Its is not a big hassle to change your wordless to static page and have blog page separate it matter of seconds to change settings in Settings>>>Reading so that by default it will open your static page as front page and open blog page as post page.
Donovan

There are a lot of settings that you can do in WordPress that can turn your blog into a website. You can also work in the code to create small “tricks for the eye” that will hide the fact that your site is wordpress-based. The most easy way to do this I think is by using a theme generator that I recently discovered- it’s called Lubith, and it works online. By using it you can move/resize/add/remove different elements of the layout, like the site’s title, menu, description, sidebars etc.

How to use WordPress to create a website rather than a blog.

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