Roger asks:
What is the best training for WordPress for creating a static website?
I am in the process of creating my first website and I am trying to do it using WordPress. I have just a couple of products I want to sell. I am finding it to be a challenge. Help!
4 Answers -
Mike
June 16, 2011You can follow the official help on how to create Pages
http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages
I do feel like WordPress is not what you want to use for this. In it’s core it’s a blogging system which usually means very little static content and not really suited for product sales. You may want to look into using an E-Commerce system:
OpenCart
http://www.opencart.com
Magento
http://www.magentocommerce.com/
Bruce Epper
June 16, 2011Why would you want to use a blogging system to create a static site? If you want a static site, just use static HTML pages; it is much easier. If you want to take orders through it, it can still be accomplished by having a form post data into a flat data file or a simple database file. (Watch your access permissions on the server though.)
Angela Alcorn
June 16, 2011Basically, to make the site static you’ll be using pages rather than blog posts. Here’s a couple of great MakeUseOf articles and a PDF guide which cover some of the things you’ll need to know:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/easily-turn-wordpress-blog-ecommerce-site/
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-non-blog-wordpress-themes/
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/essential-wordpress-services-plugins-business-blogs/
http://www.makeuseof.com/pages/download-build-your-own-wordpress-site
mask
June 16, 2011wpbeginner.com all in one