use my blog as a website

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  helenamallett · Member · Feb 22, 2013 at 8:18 am

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  can i use my wp blog just as a website? ie not have a blog post page at all.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Feb 22, 2013 at 9:00 am

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  For a website:
  Here is how to set up a static front page:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/

  Then you’d just use pages, no posting page.

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  helenamallett · Member · Feb 22, 2013 at 9:06 am

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  Hi Tess thanks for replying – and if i have a static page as a home page can i not have a ‘blog’ page at all? i would like to just have a ‘news’ page.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Feb 22, 2013 at 9:37 am

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  Sure, you can designate a blog page. Here is how, from the link I gave you:

  4 Write another new page.
  5 Title this page “Posts” (Or “blog” if you want sitename.com/blog)
  6 You don’t need to type content, because it won’t be displayed. Publish the page.
  7 Click Settings -> Reading on the left menu in your Dashboard.

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  helenamallett · Member · Feb 22, 2013 at 9:54 am

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  ok thank you so much, that’s great.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Feb 22, 2013 at 10:00 am

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  You’re welcome.

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  helenamallett · Member · Feb 22, 2013 at 12:08 pm

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  Hi Tess
  I’ve managed to create a new home page but how can i delete the ‘leave comment’ box?

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 22, 2013 at 12:40 pm

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  Edit the page and remove that option on the Discussion Options on the edit page.

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 22, 2013 at 12:41 pm

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  Oh, and if you don’t want comments on Any pages, you can set that under Settings->Discussion

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  helenamallett · Member · Feb 22, 2013 at 12:50 pm

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  Thanks so much!