Title: WordPress appropriateness Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # WordPress appropriateness * Resolved [GALJohnson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/galjohnson/) * (@galjohnson) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-appropriateness/) * I am trying to decide how to build a website for a client who wants a site in the “Simplest language known to man”. He wants me to build the site, and he wants to be able to edit text on a main or home page, have a page for book reviews and articles that he offers (no associated reply or comment capability), and then a blog page. * I kept hearing about how easy WordPress is, and decided that I should check it out. So far it is much more complex than I had imagined from what I had heard, but for what he wants, with me defining the site and him just doing his thing with sections he can edit and a place to blog, maybe it is still appropriate. * I don’t want to waste a lot of time learning WordPress if it isn’t going to meet our needs (well, maybe I would like to learn it later – it looks interesting). So can anyone hear offer their opinion on WordPress’s appropriateness for this project? Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/) * (@zoonini) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-appropriateness/#post-2283557) * If he wants a blog as well as static pages, WordPress is perfect. I have a few really non-tech-savvy clients using WP and after a couple of hours of training they were able to get the hang of it and they love it. And if you’re a professional web designer you’ll have a very popular CMS in your toolkit. * If you have any specific questions, just let me know. * Thread Starter [GALJohnson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/galjohnson/) * (@galjohnson) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-appropriateness/#post-2283631) * Hi Zoonini, * Thank you for your feedback! Yes I do have some questions – some specific and some more general. I have only spent about 4 or 5 hours trying to get my arms around WordPress. But what I had read about it being easy left me frustrated that after that amount of time my understanding was still pretty limited. * Yesterday I felt mostly frustrated, but today I feel like I am making some progress. I have three particular questions this morning. * 1. I figured out how to turn off the comments and blogs for the home page, but how do I turn them off only for the home page? When I turn them off it applies that setting to all of the pages. * 2. How do I control link order? For that matter, how do I make sure that when I create a page (or blog) that a link is created for it? Yesterday I created a page under one theme, and it created a page link. Later I changed themes, and after that created two new pages, and there were not page links created for them. But it occurs to me that I did not look to see if there was a blog link created. So maybe that was what I was missing. Being from the web design world I tend to think of everything as a page, and that a blog would be something on a page. But I have noticed that WordPress thinks that a page and a blog are two separate things. * 3. I deleted that sample page, having forgotten it was the home page. Now when I go to my website, it says “The page cannot be found”. How do I make a page into my home page? I tried renaming a page to “sample”, and then to “index” but that didn’t work. * Thanks much for your help! If you want to email me offline, my email is _[email redacted per forum policy]_ Anne * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-appropriateness/#post-2283657) * > 1. I figured out how to turn off the comments and blogs for the home page, > but how do I turn them off only for the home page? When I turn them off it > applies that setting to all of the pages. * Unless you’re using a static front page, you don’t actually have comments available on the home page. If you are using a static front page, just disable them for that page. * > 2. How do I control link order? * Carefully. I use link ‘ratings’ and then when I display them, I sort by rating. * > 3. I deleted that sample page, having forgotten it was the home page. Now when > I go to my website, it says “The page cannot be found”. How do I make a page > into my home page? I tried renaming a page to “sample”, and then to “index” > but that didn’t work. * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page](http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page) * Thread Starter [GALJohnson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/galjohnson/) * (@galjohnson) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-appropriateness/#post-2283664) * Since this is no longer a “Miscellaneous” thread, I am going to open a new thread on the “How to … ” board. * thanks! * Thread Starter [GALJohnson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/galjohnson/) * (@galjohnson) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-appropriateness/#post-2283666) * Hi Zoonini, * I have found answers to all of these questions (and some others). I am still struggling with a couple of things, but I am getting much more comfortable with WordPress. Thanks for your support! * Anne Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) The topic ‘WordPress appropriateness’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [appropriate](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/appropriate/) * In: [Everything else WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/) * 5 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [GALJohnson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/galjohnson/) * Last activity: [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-appropriateness/#post-2283666) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics