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1. Harvey
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Just curious, has anyone ever attempted to use WordPress for a website other than a traditional blog?

   I am thinking of making a website displaying information about the products available at a online store, so it will not be updated daily in the traditional blog sense.

   However, using the Pages feature of WordPress looks appealing. I could have one page for say, the front page, another page for the product details, another page for the FAQ, etc. I think it would be easy to maintain, and I wouldn't need to use a lot of time finding an appealing template because I could use any of the wonderful templates available for WordPress.

   What does everyone here think about this? Is it a good idea to bring WordPress in for non-blog blogs?

2. Alex Cragg
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Yeah, a lot of people do it. A quick search in the forum for CMS will bring you topics with people linking to their own non-blog-blog.

   I have one myself, i rarely post in the traditional way, but when i do its just as a kind of announcement, and i have removed all ability to comment from my site, its not needed for me.

   The great thing is all the functionality you can still have, with plugins etc, and to edit your site's layout requires editing one or two files, instead of loads and loads of html pages.

   mine is at http://www.epicskitours.com if you want to see, just for an idea.

3. Harvey
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Great thanks epicalex! Your website looks good.

   Btw just to check, is the way that you, and most other people do it by running the main site off of one of the wordpress Pages?

   Great, I'm glad this is something that is normally done. Another good use for WordPress!

4. Alex Cragg
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   it varies, my site is completely wordpress, so the homepage is a wordpress 'Page', and from that you are straight into wordpress proper. Others have a standard html homepage, and then run the wordpress bit at domain.com/blog, domain.com/blog/about etc.

   not sure if that is what you were really asking or not, but its the answer i thought i should give :-)

5. doodlebee
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I actually do this more often than not for clients. WordPress as a CMS is excellent for clients who are not "computer savvy". They can edit and write content without the worry of messing up the code for the site. Very nice, and easy to customize.

6. levelbest
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I also want some discussion on this idea. I am not a blogger if I understand blogging? I want to start publishing my articles and have a link to my photography print bureau site. So I will want more pictures woven in as well as integrating my site as it is now, but using wordpress.

   Is this gong to work this way?

   <http://thegoldenthread.net>

   Thanks if you know.

7. robinfaichney
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I'm surprise nobody's already mentioned this: in recent versions of WP you can specify a static front page in Options | Reading.

   I use this on a couple of sites, one of which I'm currently working on, you can take a look if you like. (That domain will probably be used for a different site in a few days' time.)

8. levelbest
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Thanks, it looks as though you have it working pretty well. I am a bit frustrated as I posted a second question yesterday, and now I can't find it. I offered a suggestion to the support staff that the found post could be clickable (found it but cant' click on it or go to it as it was moved). Anyway, I am feeling stuck now as I can't see how the insert image function works. Is this like the regular html editing that I have to write code snippet in html for an image and upload the image myself? I would have hoped this would be easier - a reason I am trying WP for my turn key solution.

   I also have the NextGEN gallery set up but not configured as it needed a chmod777 setting to work and I am not comfortable doing that quite yet. I want to at least finish moving all my passwords off the public folder before I start granting unlimited write permission to any folders I have - especially folders that contain my photography.

   I can insert an image but it wont link to a file for upload. And in the lower section I can upload a picture file, but I can't see how to place it on a page, let alone position it on a page. In short, nothing so far is working for me to put in even one picture. Any ideas on this?

   Much thanks if you know.

   David

   PS - I will say that as I drag an uloaded image over the above editing box it shows a green plus mark, suggesting it is to be dragged and dropped into the edited text area. But nothing will drop when I Relese over the text area. Like I said, nothing I have done so far will add a picture.

9. GOBLUE14
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I've just started using WP for more than just blogging for a few clients I have (or using the blog function for them to update news and events, then linking to specific categories throughout the site) and it's been great. No more digging through files, folders and pages of code to fix one line because a time for an event got changed.

   I've done a lot more with WordPress than I ever figured possible when I started with it two or three years ago.

10. levelbest
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    OK, but, How? I can't get even one image up. And going through html code, is a real headache remembering which folder to upload to update, etc.

    All you see on my site today was started as a template from a program, and then hand tweaked. Now I have impure code for standards and other headaches that I just don't want to learn about and fix - too time consuming as I have to start getting my stuff in the public arena.m

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