Trying to edit theme to make look less like a blog

  • Hi guys,

    How do I set about removing reference to stuff like comments and post dates from my site?

    I’m trying to use WordPress as a static site instead of a blog, have found a couple of themes I like but need to tidy up the appearance because I don’t need these things.

    Is there a really good guide out there or am I best using the forums here? I’m OK with HTML and CSS, beyond that I’m no expert although I can navigate my way through the bits in the editor OK.

    The site in question is https://mrkeefe.co.uk and it’s currently using the Constructor theme.

    Am looking for a few global pages and then a nice menu with five pages (categories), each will have numerous categories inside them to get to the actual content pages ……. like a normal website.

    Looking forward to getting some clues guys!

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  • Moderator cubecolour

    (@numeeja)

    Putting your content into pages & subpages (arranged using the pagemash plugin) usually works better than posts in categories for a static site.

    Thread Starter webnik

    (@noisedude)

    Brilliant, thank you, I’ll do that.

    My pages still say ‘Closed for comments’ on them, though, when I turn off comments and pings in the publishing page. How can I get rid of that?

    Delete the php block of code in your template files that calls that text and function.

    You may also want to hide the blog and specify a different front page. The controls for that are in Settings, under Reading.

    Thread Starter webnik

    (@noisedude)

    Thanks guys ….

    songdogtech – what am I looking for and will I have to delete it from multiple files or just one main template one? Sorry if that’s a really basic question.

    Look in single.php, category.php, layout-default.php (and others) and delete:

    <?php comments_popup_link(__('No Comments »', 'construtor'), __('1 Comment »', 'construtor'), __('% Comments »', 'construtor'), '', __('Comments Closed', 'construtor') ); ?>

    Does that code make sense?

    Make a copy of your theme and revert back to files if you break something. If your site doesn’t display right after edits, use the W3C Markup Validator to see what you did wrong.

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