WordPress.com as a traditional web site, not blog
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Is it common to use WordPress.com as a traditional, generally static, web site as opposed to a blog? I figure with the ability to add pages and the templates available, it seems like it could be a good choice.
Any examples of this?
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The best examples of this are those who have downloaded the free standing version of software from http://wordpress.org and hacked the blog templates to suit.
summary of differences between wordpress.org and wordpress.com https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=3700Here at wordpress.com we are all on a multiuser blogging platform. We cannot access and edit our underlying templates. If we could hack our templates then what we did edit would also be changed on every other blog with the same theme.
We can choose a theme from Presentation -> Themes and if we experienced with css we can purchase an upgrade and customize the appearance of our style sheets. We cannot hack the html or php.
At wordpress.com we can create as many static pages as we choose. But only one page , usually the front page, (we can change which page this is) will be dynamic and will automatically update placing our our most recent posts on it . All other pages sit outside the blog structure. They do not automatically update. The only way to update them is by editing. Pages cannot be assigned categories and they do not get the Google juice that posts on our front pages get.
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my entire university runs on wordpress.com :)
Having said that–you can’t really run a *large* successful website on wordpress without the ability to edit the php. You can’t edit the php at wordpress.com.
You can use the parent-child relationships, and the list pages options, and generate a sidebar of links to each page on wordpress.com.
So–it can be done. It just won’t be as easy here as it would be on your own server.
(edited to make what I said clearer. mostly.)
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