Created site, but it came out as 'blog'
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I wanted to set up a webpage…not a blog per se…but somehow it seems to have defaulted to a blog. Is there any way I can change this? Or are all WordPress pages considered blogs, or they only allow for blogs? Isn’t a blog …a blog…where folks write their thoughts and comments on a variety of topics?
I was trying to create a webpage as a ‘business’…to offer a product or service.
For now I only selected the Free version. Maybe that’s why I’m having issues/limitations?
I also thought it was odd that while I selected my site name and it said ‘name available’, I was never prompted to secure or purchase the site name. I thought the only way you can really ‘have’ a site name, is to officially pay for the domain…
Tx!
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there,
This issue has zero to do with being on the free plan. What I post below applies to all wordpress.com hosted sites.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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