Change blog format to website format
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I want to build a website, but WordPress has me set up as a blog. How do I change that?
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Hello jscreativemarketing,
Add at least one Page, starting with what you want on the home page of your website. One that Page is added to your site, go to WP Admin > Settings > Reading and set “Front page displays” to “A static page”. Here you can set “Front page:” to the home Page you just made.
If you don’t want to use blog posts at all in your site, make a “Blog Dump” page and set that to be your “Posts page:” in Settings > Reading. You can keep the Blog Dump page out of your site menu under Appearance > Menus.
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Every theme has a detailed theme description page and like this one at https://wordpress.com/theme/twentysixteen/ and that’s where set up instructions for it and the live demo site link is found.
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 >
Using WordPress.com to Create a Website
http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/Build a Business Website Tutorial
https://en.support.wordpress.com/tutorials/business-website-tutorial/
Five Step Blog Setup
https://en.support.wordpress.com/five-step-blog-setup/
Build Your Website in Five Steps
https://en.support.wordpress.com/five-step-website-setup/
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