The looks (“sitey” or “bloggy”) of a site is not determined by whether you use posts or pages, but by your theme and whether you use a static front page or not.
Use posts and you can categorize.
Then you may ask questions on how to have this or that effect or functionality using posts. There’s always answers to that, because there is nothing with pages that can’t be done with posts. The very definition of pages is that they are like posts, without taxonomies, publishing date an author. Posts may even be put hierarchically into a navigation menu.
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sioy
(@sioy)
Many thanks, it is exactly those ‘taxonomies’ that make it look bloggy – perhaps if they could be stopped from displaying (with a widget?).
A widget is for displaying something, not hiding. Maybe a plugin.
The theme is responsible for displaying everything. Look for another theme, specifically a one that doesn’t display categories as meta data along with the posts.
Or make child theme of your favourite one, removing the category display of every post template it has, or by setting the CSS display property to none (easier).
Tip: Use the page.php and copy it to single.php in a child theme. This will display posts as if they were pages.
A plugin might let you add CSS for this without a child theme, as even Jetpack will. The exact CSS to use will depend on the theme.
Tags are usually not displayed if there is none. But a post always has a category.
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sioy
(@sioy)
Thanks again!
I’ve set the CSS to display none…
/* remove display of meta from posts*/
.page-header {display:none}
.entry-meta {display: none;}
Only thing is, I’ve lost the little ‘edit’ button at bottom of post, so I can’t quickly get into post for editing : (
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sioy
(@sioy)
Silly me, I don’t need that button – cause there’s an edit button in the black bar above!
I’ll call this post resolved now thank-you, Knut.
