Building a Static Site as Cheap, Easy and Versitle As Wordpress

[Charles Harper]

Hello Everyone:

I am fairly technically sound and am looking for a solution as easy, versitile and cheap as Wordpress to create a Static Website.

Does such a thing exist?

If so, what is it?

Charles

[VegasGreg]

Well, you can use Wordpress to build static websites. That is how versatile it is.

[Keith Kogane]

Originally Posted by Charles Harper

Hello Everyone:

I am fairly technically sound and am looking for a solution as easy, versitile and cheap as Wordpress to create a Static Website.

Does such a thing exist?

If so, what is it?

Charles

In my experience, there's nothing better than Wordpress. You can easily make Wordpress operate a static site by making a theme with little navigation, then ignore the posting mechanism and only create pages. But the benefits of using WordPress are myriad. (pinging, RSS, etc).

Or, you can try this: Welcome To 19pages!

Hope that helps!

Edit: Or, if you do go with Wordpress, alter your permalinks to ignore dates. Alter your template to not post date information. Load up a bunch of articles. Use a plugin to do a post shift so it rotates old posts and re-posts them. That way you have a static appearing site, but the rotation of your content means you're constantly pushing out there with RSS and you get links back. Let me know if you have more questions - I'll explain in more detail if you want to try it.

[ShelbyC]

I use Xsite Pro 2 for static sites. That's specifically what it's designed to do. It still ranks very well with a few tweaks, but may not get picked up quite as fast as wordpress does. Check out my signature for more information on it.

Plus it's very easy to use, you can have a site up within 3 hours of buying it if you know the basics.

[Charles Harper]

Hi Guys:

Thanks for your reply.

I am trying to avoid the Powered by Wordpress at the bottom.

Can you do Wordpress and avoid that?

Charles

[Keith Kogane]

Originally Posted by Charles Harper

Hi Guys:

Thanks for your reply.

I am trying to avoid the Powered by Wordpress at the bottom.

Can you do Wordpress and avoid that?

Charles

Yeah, that's usually built into the theme. Typically in the footer file. Just edit it out.

[J.Knight]

Originally Posted by Charles Harper

Hi Guys:

Thanks for your reply.

I am trying to avoid the Powered by Wordpress at the bottom.

Can you do Wordpress and avoid that?

Charles

Of course you can dude. Just remove it from the footer (where it normally is).

JK

[VegasGreg]

Originally Posted by Charles Harper

Hi Guys:

Thanks for your reply.

I am trying to avoid the Powered by Wordpress at the bottom.

Can you do Wordpress and avoid that?

Charles

Yep, as mentioned above, every theme is different, but in the footer.php file you will usually find the powered by WP link, so just remove that line from that file.

If you use widgets in the sidebar and the 'Meta' section, you can also remove that WP link in the wp-includes->widgets.php file.

[coco28]

Wordpress also has lots of useful plugins that arent available for static sites. U can replicate their behavior using static site designers, but why reinvent the wheel...