WordPress Is Nice But… Website or Blog?

  • I don’t know what the exact percentage is but a lot of people who use WordPress want to make a website not a blog or weblog.

    What I don’t understand is why there isn’t a simple setting within WordPress (and I don’t mean any specific theme) where you can make one selection in the administration panel and just change the whole site to look like a real website. That means removing all references to comments, time and date, author, modified, posted by, posted in, or whatever else it is that makes it look like a blog.

    To me it seems simple and it’s the first thing I get asked whenever I use WordPress to build a website or blog for anyone. They don’t seem to be too specific. They either want a blog or a website. Only a few what it to look like a website and have one link that says blog.

    Why is that so hard to understand? I get the idea of themes. People tell me, “Oh you just need to find the right theme and customize it yourself”. That seems absurd to me. In my search for all the different complicated plugins and changing the code in the appearance editor to make it look like a website (with no blog details) I am amazed at how utterly brilliant all these designers are. Yet I can’t understand why no one with these skills hasn’t figured out how to put one setting in the Admin panel that will work with all themes to select between website or blog.

    Also whenever something like this comes up in the forum you get the same response from the experts. They say, “You’re asking the wrong question”. I’ve always been told there are no wrong questions. And some of the dumbest people, village idiots and children ask the most important questions. You should always listen to these people if you want to hear the truth. At first you may want to enlighten them on your extensive knowledge on just exactly why the emperor is not wearing clothes. I’m sure there’s a million reasons. But in the end he’s still standing there naked in front of everyone.

    Where’s the simple setting to make it look like a website? If anyone has any suggestions or ideas it would be greatly appreciated.

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  • dont mean to plug but.. i edited my wp site to make it look like a website.

    doesnt look like a blog at all to me ?? but i still get to use the functionality and convenience of the posts, etc etc

    https://www.swimbikerun.ph

    i agree with zoonini.. use pages instead of posts

    Thread Starter jzenman

    (@jzenman)

    Wow. Cool site cdeguzman! Nice work.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    FYI – Don’t use TOO many pages!

    A sidebar from https://ottopress.com/2010/category-in-permalinks-considered-harmful/

    But what if you have a lot of Pages? I once read a post by a person who had over 50,000 Pages on his site. That is a special case obviously, but consider our lookup system. We’re going through these rules one at a time. With our first method, our rule list was only 10 rules, maximum. With this new method, you add a rule for every single Page you make. Going through 50,000 rules takes a lot longer than going through 10. And even just building that list of rules can take a long time.

    Basically you’ve created a performance issue. Your Pages now won’t scale to unlimited numbers. Your site’s speed is linearly dependent on the number of Pages you have.

    This is a bad thing.

    Hey everyone thanks for the kind comments about https://www.swimbikerun.ph ??

    I made a poll actually before because honestly I’m kinda lost too what my site is. for me it’s a website not a blog ??

    most of the people think otherwise though ??

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