Newby – Using wordpress for a non-blog website

  • Hello,
    I just started in on wordpress, and I see that this is designed for blogs. I do not want a blog. How do I remove all the blog-related stuff from the page? Also, I have a domain, but wordpress thinks my domain is mydomain/wordpress. How do I get my domain to be recognized by wordpress?

    thanks
    FBW

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  • Fletchy – I’m in the same boat you are. I sorted it out a bit – the key is to use pages (which are static) rather than posts (ie, blog updates). My site (dantesdame.wordpress.com) is set up this way. I use the “posts” features to let anyone following me know that I’ve added new pages, but for the most part, my site runs off of static info.

    I think that you can issue a ‘re-direct’ from “mydomain” to “mydomain.wordpress.com’ That’s what I intend to do once I have the wordpress site up and running. I’d tell you how, but I’m not sure yet ??

    fletchy-boy-wonder –

    Your domain is still your domain (www.mydomain.com) the forward slash after the ‘.com’ tells me you uploaded (and installed) wordpress in a folder called wordpress, and not directly in the root. ??

    If you do not want a blog (with the ability for people to leave comments on a page or blog post) there are a few ways around this.

    What version of WP and what theme are you using?

    Typically whenver I start a new WP site I immediately find the `<?php comments_template( ”, true ); ?>’ from either page.php or loop-page.php and remove it, because I don’t want comments on static pages, at all, ever (but thats just me). But if you don’t feel comfortable doing this… (continued below).

    If you want to use the ‘blog’ function (the POSTS) for something else, say ‘News’, but you still don’t want anyone to access the comments function you can go into SETTINGS –> DISCUSSIONS and deselect ” Allow people to post comments on new articles” (this will only work on new ‘blog posts’, and not existing posts you’ve already made. To go in and edit those, go into each post itself and deselect ‘allow comments’). Doing this alway works for pages.

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