How To Create A Website (Not A Blog) With WordPress by Geoff Blake, TenTonOnline.com

How To Create A Website (Not A Blog) With WordPress by Geoff Blake, \r
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Hey, whats going on? This is Geoff Blake from tentononline.com and in this tutorial, Im going to show you how to create a website (not a blog) using WordPress. This is something that a lot of people want to know how to do with their WordPress site. So the objective here is to turn off the blog look and feel, if you will, of their WordPress site and create a more traditional looking and behaving website.\r
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Now, before we really dive into it, Ive put together a free WordPress guide to go along with this video, which you can go and pick up over at tentononline.com/wpguide. So, pause the video and go and grab your free guide now.\r
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Alright, now, as I say, the objective here is to turn the blog look and feel off. Im running just a straight up fresh installation of WordPress here, really nothing too exciting happening here.\r
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We might want to start things off with a theme that doesnt have a blog feel to it. Here Im using the default new theme just to demonstrate and much of what Im going to show you is going to work for a lot of other themes but you may want to use a more website-y feel-y theme, if that makes sense to you. Maybe a theme like Responsive or Business lite or Hatch. These are all good examples of WordPress themes that have more of a traditional website feel to them.\r
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Alright, now, what Im going to do here is Im going to take sort of a top-down approach to converting what I am seeing here into more of a traditional site and Im going to start off right at the very top, My Blog and then My WordPress Blog.\r
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So, what Im going to do is Im going to flip over to the back end of my WordPress site which I have here in another browser tab. And what Im going to do is Im going to head all the way down to Settings down towards the bottom left corner and then over to General. Okay. And inside the General screen I can change the Site Title and the Tagline. This is where we see My Blog and My WordPress Blog. \r
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So, give me a second here. Im going to change this to, just as a quick example here, My Company Site, something like this, and then perhaps the tagline for my company, The Fastest Widgets in Town. There we go. Something like that. Im going to scroll all the way down towards the bottom and make sure that I save my changes and then Ill head back to the front end of my site and refresh, Control or Command R on your keyboard, by the way, and there we go! Now weve gotten rid of that reference to a blog or to a WordPress website in the main header area, at least.\r
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Alright, good enough. Now, the next thing I want to do is I want to change whats being displayed in the front end of my WordPress website. By default were going to get our, whats referred to as the WordPress Loop, all of our WordPress posts. Im going to change that to a static page instead, which I would definitely recommend that you do.\r
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So, with the default installation of WordPress we have one sample post which we just saw in the front end of our site and one sample page as well. So, what Im going to do is Im going to head back down to Settings in the bottom left corner. This time Im going to go to Reading and inside the Reading Settings, Front page displays, instead of my latest blog posts, Im going to say A static page and the Front page Im going to set to that default Sample Page that we have, okay? Go ahead and save those changes as well, okay?\r
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Lets go and check out the front end of our site. Once again Ill refresh, Control or Command R on my keyboard. There we go. We now have a static page being displayed in the front end of our WordPress site, okay?\r
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However, if I scroll down a little bit, I see that we have a commenting area down towards the bottom of this static page. Now, you may want to remove this comment area because, again, its kind of giving it sort of a blog-y feel, if thats a term I can use. \r
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So what Im going to do is Im going to go and turn off the commenting capabilities. So, what Im going to do is Im going to head back once again to the back end of my WordPress site. Im going to head down to Pages now. Go ahead and click on Pages and then theres my sample page. Im going to go and edit my ual sample page for a moment here, okay? Get in there. And what Im going to do is Im going to disable my commenting and heres how Im going to do it.\r
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