Give to your WordPress blog a website-looking feeling
Transform your present WordPress blog or start from scratch a WordPress site that looks and feels like a general website rather than a blog.
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Pre-considerations
You may consider if a multi-site or even a mult-language installation is what you need. WordPress has special installations for those features.
The process
Once you have your WordPress site installed there are three general steps to transform it into a website that doesn't look like your typical blog:
- Modify general settings
- Choose an appropriate theme
- Play with the style and formatting
Modify general settings
On your WP Dashboard do the following changes for the Settings
Reading
Change the 'Front Page displays:' option to 'Select a Static Page:' and choose in the drop down menu the 'Sample Page' that comes by default with the installation. More about this later.
With this step you are making a Page your front page, instead of the default list of posts.
Discussion
In 'Article Settings:' uncheck 'Allow people to post comments on new articles' With this your are saving yourself time, avoiding to have to manually remove comments sections on your future pages. Leave it check if you want comments for all the pages you create.
