Using WordPress for a non-blog website?

  • garybeck

    (@garybeck)


    19 years ago

    hi, i’m new here… I’ve been coding my own websites and i’m interested in using WordPress to create websites for people, and then let them update their own content.

    so this is not really for blogs, but for the fuctionality where multiple users, with no HTML experience, can edit a page or make a new page, without having to bother (or pay) me.

    so I don’t need some of the blog functionality, like all the archiving, and commenting.

    is there a way to turn off that stuff? Or are there some themes available that don’t have those features already embedded?

    I’m pretty sure I can do this, as I’ve seen some sites that use WordPress but don’t have all the blogging stuff on it. So how do I do that?

    Any advice on this is much appreciated.

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  • Alex Cragg

    (@epicalex)

    19 years ago

    One of my sites is used as company website, or CMS(content management system), and doesnt use commenting or archiving etc. All of that functionality is created using functions, so the comments section is put in using <?php comments_template() ?> and you can just delete things like that and they wont appear. This goes for listing posts, archives categories, the whole shabam. I kept a place to put posts, so that i could make announcements etc. A lot of people do this. Do a search for CMS on the forum and you’re bound to get a lot of links to peoples sites so you can have a look. mine is at http://www.epicskitours.com if you want to see what i did.

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