using WordPress for static pages

  • Hello,

    I have never used a CMS or a blog software before, my pages have always been static HTML+CSS and later I’ve used PHP to write my own simple CMS.

    Now I’m thinking about using WordPress for my next site, but as it will be a page for a dentist, it will be a very static page and not a blog at all. There will be some updates on a “news” page, but they won’t happen too frequently. The other pages will be very static and mostly contain just one “article” or two.

    This means that most features will be turned off, like commenting, liking, following, RSS, categories, and who knows what all. There will only be a navigation menu on the left border, a logo on the top, and the page content of course.

    Now, would you still recommend using WordPress for that project, or would it make more sense to stick with static HTML and maybe some PHP? I guess it should be generally possible to create a static page in WordPress, but are there any things that I should be aware of? Also, I don’t know how much learning overhead there is with WordPress, do you think I could get along with it quickly?

    Nice greetings
    ZeHa

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  • I use WordPress for a lot of sites like this, so that the client can update the content themselves later. And it certainly sounds like a perfect project for you to get started with WordPress. Which you absolutely should and will do absolutely fine with as you know HTML, CSS and PHP.

    For this you would create a static front page and use the posts for the news updates.

    And in your template, you will have no trouble removing the code that generates comments, tagclouds and all the other blog-stuff you don’t need.

    Good luck!

    Thread Starter zeha

    (@zeha)

    Thanks for your answer, that sounds great. Would you like to share a few links to your static sites, so that I could get some impressions?

    If you check the stuff tagged webdesign on my blog, all the newest are WordPress. Even one in English. ?? Perhaps better examples for you at the WordPress Showcase.

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