How to make wordpress looks like a real website?

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I want to learn how to edit the appeareance of the blog mostly remove things and making the blog looks like a real website, i start tweaking with the php files but i think i need some kind of course or tutorial that can help me anyone can reccomend somthing like this?
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  • Define "Real website".
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    • Would like to know this too...

      Are you referring to sales page type websites?
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  • Everything you need to know about wordpress themes and coding can be found in the WordPress Codex.

    Alternatively, you should find a theme which mirrors what you want to achieve, and study the CSS and PHP files.

    There are hundreds of websites dedicated to custom WP theming. If you have specific WP questions, there are also many WP experts here who could most likely help you.

    Hope this helps.

    Kindest regards,
    Karl.
  • No offence intended - but it's not too difficult to understand that "real website"
    doesn't mean sales-page when the OP writes:

    To my understanding, it sounds like the OP wants to be able to build multi-page sites with WordPress. To remove the tell-tale signs that the site is running on the WP platform, in order to use it as a CMS. Which in itself isn't too difficult at all if you have some PHP/CSS/HTML knowledge.

    Kindest regards,
    Karl.
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      Agreed.

      The OP's meaning matches my own instinctive understanding of a "real website": one that doesn't immediately look "bloggy" with separate posts with the date on, an obvious bloggy sidebar or two and a little bit at the bottom saying "proudly powered by Wordpress", designed by "Wordpress-Solutions-4U" and these things like "comments closed" all over the place, which are a dead giveaway. All the crap one would want to remove to make it look like a proper website, in other words! What's difficult to understand about this?
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    • The secret to designing a blog to look like a regular website is using a theme that is highly customizable.

      Also, you want a theme that is easily customizable.

      I use the Headway Theme and it has both of these features.

      It is extremely customizable and it is easy to customize.

      So, you can virtually drag and drop elements and change things with the click of a mouse.

      So, you can virtually take a blog and make it look like any type of website you want. I use it for squeeze pages, sales pages, regular websites, clients websites, The list goes on and on.

      So, if you are looking to build websites using WordPress I would highly suggest getting the Headway Theme.
    • Yup, while I chose to remain diplomatic
  • The simplest solution is to pick a widget ready wordpress theme and remove all widgets except for the "Pages" widget. That allows you to create a site with a navigational structure that resembles what I believe you mean by a "real" web site.
  • hmm, probably you mean "easy to edit" by "real website".

    Flexible wordpress theme is what you are looking for, premium themes can work for you.
    Check examples here: elegantthemes.com (no affiliate link)

    For more information about their themes, ask here or pm me.
  • Hi nakatomi,

    Try selecting Pages instead of Posts in your left hand menu of the WP Admin area when adding new web page content.

    To set your home page, select "Reading" under Settings, and then select the "From Static Page" option, & select the name of the page you want to set as your home page from the drop down list entitled "Front Page". Save Changes.

    To remove the blog roll & other things, you can usually do that by removing the corresponding widgets by selecting "Appearance" & Widgets in the WP-Admin menu.

    If those are all blank because it's a new theme, you can remove those defaults by dragging a blank Text widget into each area (ie - north_sidebar, south_sidebar, etc). & save changes.

    Now click on "Permalinks" under "Settings" & select "Custom Structure". In the text field below, add this: /%postname%/ and then save the changes.

    That will make your URLs look SE Friendly and more natural looking.

    This is just a quick rundown, but hopefully it will get you pointed into the right direction.

    -Jack
  • You can also use Artisteer to edit a Wordpress theme. It's much easier to do it that way. I recently finished creating my website and it looks great!!

    The home page doesn't even look like a Wordpress site.
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    How to make wordpress looks like a real website?

    I want to learn how to edit the appeareance of the blog mostly remove things and making the blog looks like a real website, i start tweaking with the php files but i think i need some kind of course or tutorial that can help me anyone can reccomend somthing like this?