Using WordPress without blogging

  • I just installed WP. I don’t want a blog. I just want a boring page with some background color, some text, and some links to future pages of my site. The homepage will remain basically static, as will the other pages I want. WP seems to insist I use a theme, but they all turn my page entries into blog entries and make the page look like a blog in other ways, like creating ridiculously large margins and placing my text in the middle. I just want a normal website. Now you may be wondering why I downloaded WP. That’s because I don’t know code and because the plugins are exactly what I need, but I have to use WP for them to be of any use. Is there a way to simplify this stuff? Thanks in advance for your help.

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  • There are themes for every kind of look. Have a look at the huge mass of free theme archives around.

    You need a starting point, just as you would with any other type of website.

    Your best way forward would be to try out a few themes and then just put all of your information into pages.

    WordPress is really flexible and you can do whatever you want with it. However, you do need to know the basics of HTML/CSS/PHP to do that.

    If you don’t like the default Theme (Twenty Eleven) then have a search for something more to your liking.

    To use WordPress without blogging functionality:

    1) Create a static Page to hold your site Front Page content. Title it anything; for simplicity, you might title it “Front Page”.

    2) Go to Dashboard -> Settings -> Reading

    3) Change “Front Page Displays” from “Your latest posts” to “A static Page”

    4) In the “Front page” dropdown list, select the Page you created in Step #1.

    5) Leave the “Posts page” dropdown list empty.

    Now, your site will display a static Page as your Front Page, and will not display blog Posts.

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