Blog to Website

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  fifthdimensionsports · Member · Feb 16, 2016 at 11:41 pm

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  I wanted to create a website but for some reason it created a blog. I was wondering how I would be able to change it to a website.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 16, 2016 at 11:48 pm

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  A blog is a website. The difference between blog and website is simply structure and semantics.

  A blog is a post based website designed for interactive communication. As the posts are frequently updated and appear on the front page of the site it’s very attractive to search engines.

  What most people call a website is merely a page based site that functions as a one-way noticeboard. As the structure is page based and as pages are for static content that rarely changes, and as pages do not have RSS feeds, and as others do not backlink to pages, it is not as attractive to search engines as a post based blog structured site is.

  Any WordPress blog can be restructured from being post based to being page based – no upgrade required. For greater clarity read > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/

  See also:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/five-step-blog-setup/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/five-step-website-setup/
  and my post at https://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2013/07/25/create-a-wordpress-website-step-by-step/

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  timethief · Member · Feb 16, 2016 at 11:49 pm

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  Also, note that https://fifthdimensionsports.wordpress.com doesn’t exist yet but you can register it as you have the matching username account that the URL is reserved for.