{"id":163,"date":"2008-05-13T05:14:15","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T05:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.technicalley.com\/?p=150"},"modified":"2008-05-13T05:14:15","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T05:14:15","slug":"creating-a-website-with-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/blog\/2008\/05\/13\/creating-a-website-with-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating A Website With WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"

[This post is part of the article Starting A Blog – Thoughts And Experiences<\/a>.]<\/p>\n

Even though WordPress is primarily used like a blog tool, it offers very convenient features by which you can set up a conventional website with it. I started out with WordPress to set up this blog, and was planning to develop a separate website that referred to posts and pages from this blog.<\/p>\n

I created some top level “navigation” type pages for my blog, to guide readers on how to use this blog, where to find the articles, and so on. Exploring a bit more, I figured how to make any arbitrary page or post as the “front page” of my blog, i.e, the page that is shown as the blog home page.<\/p>\n

So, if any page can be the home page, you can see how you can make your blog look like a conventional website. The front page can have sub-pages, or links to other pages. It can also have links to posts. You can even setup a link to point to a category using the permalinks. With this discovery, I have decided to confine my website development to something I can build with WordPress’ native features. I may, at some point, use Microsoft Expression or other such tool to build a website ground up, and use my WordPress posts and pages for the content by referring to them.<\/p>\n

Over the last couple of days, I have been helping to create a real company website using WordPress. I set up WordPress just as I did for my blog to start with. Then I started creating all the navigation tabs for the website by creating WordPress “pages”. The site will have about 6-8 top level navigation pages. Most of the material will be contained in these pages, and some sub-pages.<\/p>\n

The blog posts in this company site will mostly be used for any announcements and updates. We also got creative and published a “Request for feedback” post where the visitors can enter their comments. There is also a top level “Comments” page that points to this post, to guide visitors from the front page to the post where they can write their comments.<\/p>\n

This site is still under construction. There are still a number of things being tried out. I will update this post as and when I find something interesting to write about from that project.<\/p>\n

[See also Blog Or Website?<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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