Almost everyone involved in the industry of designing and running web sites and blogs knows that one of the most popular and powerful blogging packages available is Wordpress.  Wordpress is a free software package, some hosts will even handle installation of it for you at no charge, that makes running and updating almost every feature of a blog a somewhat easy to do task.  Wordpress is the most popular blogging platform for a reason, it is usable by both newcomers to blogging as well as experts who have been blogging for years.  But as good as Wordpress is for running a blog which is updated frequently with fresh content, can it also be used to run a static web site as well?

The answer is yes.

With a few simple adjustments involving disabling the comments, editing the theme, and setting the homepage to be a page instead of a post, a Wordpress blog can be transformed into a Wordpress static site.  The site will not be a true static site, as the information will still be assembled from a database of pages, but it will have the appearance of a static site. (more…)

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