WordPress as website, not a blog??

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  casonginstitute · Member · Jan 8, 2011 at 7:28 pm

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  I am in the process of building my WordPress site. I want to use it as a website, not a blog. Is there anyway to disable the “posting” and “comment” option? The answer always seems to be to upgrade the CSS option, but I am wondering if anyone knows a different way to do this?

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  timethief · Member · Jan 8, 2011 at 8:02 pm

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  There is no other way. We cannot access or edit templates or themes. We cannot edit gunctionality at all. We can only edit appearnce by editing CSS.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 8, 2011 at 8:03 pm

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  If you are considering purchasing the upgrade, you can go to Appearance > Edit CSS. There wordpress has provided a preview function where you can try before you buy.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-css/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/editing-css/

  If you do purchase the upgrade be sure to read this article before starting your editing > http://csswiz.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/if-you-have-the-wp-com-css-upgrade/

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 8, 2011 at 8:05 pm

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  You can turn off the option for visitors to comment on any Post or Page that you want – just go to the edit the Post or Page and page down a bit and you should see a turn off comment option.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 8, 2011 at 8:12 pm

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  Good catch! Disabling commenting does not equal removing the “leave commnet” or “Leave a Reply ” phrase. We have had so many of those that I goofed.

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 8, 2011 at 8:35 pm

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  ~~ timethief

  They ask about “regular web site” which I interpreted as not having comments on the Pages etc. which could look a bit tacky – you are also correct that getting rid of the “comment” line is a CSS issue but to me seeing the “comment” line at the bottom of a Page does not bother me.

  This Forum is a group thing and we all bring different skills and sometimes see different things in the questions based on our different background – works great I think.

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  angelakinder · Member · Jan 8, 2011 at 11:06 pm

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  go to >settings then >reading and you can set a static front page rather than having blog posts. my site has this: http://theretrospectband.wordpress.com… is that what you mean?