Can I do this in WordPress?

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    martintngrassfed · Member ·

    I have built and for the last couple of years have been maintaining a web site for my best friends’ business. The site is built in RapidWeaver. It does not have a blog, but we’re about to add one.

    There are a few reasons why I’m now exploring re-creating the site in WP.

    The first is the need for CMS availability. I can get some CMS capability in RapidWeaver, but it’s a bit kludgy and I can’t provide it for the online store in the site. WP by it’s nature is a CMS system.

    The second reason is that there’s a possibility that in the not too distant future we’re going to need someone to take over the site, and although there are loads of RapidWeaver developers, the number pales compared to people competent in WP.

    So I’ve been playing around with WP off and on for a while now, and, ironically, the problem I’m having is understanding how to have lots of, I guess you’d call them static pages without all sorts of other stuff on them, and on which I can place material pretty much where I want it.

    If you could take a look at a couple of pages, say, the home page and a couple of other random pages like this one and this other one you’ll get a good idea of what kind of pages I need to construct. Of course please feel free to look at anything on the site.

    The store pages won’t be a layout problem because I’ll be using a plugin like WooCommerce or something similar, and obviously the Contact Us page won’t be a problem, not to mention the blog we’re going to add.

    So I’m just wondering why I’m having so much trouble, other than the fact that I’m really new at this, constructing a page like the home page where I don’t want these things to be posts with time stamps and author, and reply areas. Or for that matter the other pages I’ve indicated.

    If anyone could give me any tips about this and perhaps some theme recommendations for my purposes, I’d really appreciate it.

    Thanks,
    Martin

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    1tess · Moderator Emeritus ·

    Just to be clear, you won’t be able to use WordPress.COM . But take a look at themes over at WordPress.ORG. There are lots of them, free, or purchased, which allow for full width static pages. Some even include optional blog formats which will seamlessly match your static page design.

    One thing to understand is that posts and pages are very different. Static pages are what traditional standard websites are built with. Blogs are websites with the unique function of reverse chronological date order, sort of like news updates. This is a Support document for wp.COM but it does a good job of explaining the differences between posts and pages.
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

    Also take a look at Jetpack. It makes lots of things you’ll need to do quite easy to maintain.
    http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/jetpack

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