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1. ora8i
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi All.

   I've had a look around but not realy found an answer to my issue.

   What I want is to use WP as a CMS to create a site with static pages and a blog.

   Problem:-

   I don't want the static pages to display the bloggy stuff

   like catagories, edit, tags, blogrole etc. It's easy enough to do that by editing a theme but

   I will want the blog functions on the blog pages.

   So static pages to look like a traditipnal site and blog pages to look like a blog.

   How do I do it? It would be easy if I could use two themes or if I had skills with php n css but I lack them.

   WP MU has been sugested, I've never used it would it work? Is it as hard to set up as it seems?

   Many thanks Ora

2. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 1 year ago #

   You can do this with one theme. As you said, it's easy to do by editing the theme :) Design a page template and use that. Done :)

3. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   hmmm...you could make your own page template to use for the static pages - like download and copy the theme's page.php and rename it to what you want - then edit it to take out the "bloggy" stuff -save it and upload it to your theme folder.
   you can then select that template when you create a page
   note - you will have to make a header for the new page you create, so here are detailed instructions
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates

   edit - got smoked

4. ora8i
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I'm not sure I have grasped this.

   Are you saying that static pages are generated by a file in the theme folder called page.php and I can edit that to control the look of staatic pages?

   Regerds Ora

5. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Yes :)

   If you ONLY want to change SOME pages, then you would use the directions Sam and I linked to to create a new page (page-mytemplate.php) and put that in your theme folder. Then you call that template to control the look and feel of that one page.

   See also: http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/03/13/page-templates-the-untapped-potential-of-wordpress

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