Using WordPress for Static Web Sites

Comments off · March 14, 2007 at 7:39 am · Online Tools

I like to tinker and play with scripts and services Online. When it comes to doing this with Web sites, my best friend at the moment is WordPress. That wonderful little CMS can be used to create just about anything.

You are not limited to just creating a blog by any means. Using some good plugins and imagination you can even create a static Web site from the dynamic guts of this content publisher.

Got this E-mail from a reader of this Web site that wants to know how I did just that with my official Web site MitchKeeler.com and Hosting Hoopla.

Hi Mitch, I love all of your Web sites and I subscribe to them all. I was wondering how you got WordPress to work on your main Web site? I can’t seem to figure it out myself but I would love to use WordPress as less of a blog and more of an easy way to manage my own bio and resume Web site. Any help would be appreciated.

Well I have to say I have no real “pretty” way of getting this done. A lot of the links back and forth through the Web pages I had to edit by hand in the code for the WordPress “style” I am using. So that gets navigation out of the way.

The hardest part was figuring out how to show a regular static Web page as the main index instead of a listing of blogs. Once you do that, you can create all your other Web pages by going to “Write” and then “Write Pages” inside of WordPress.

Filosofo Home-Page Control is the WordPress plugin you need if you want to set one of these created pages inside of WordPress as your main index. Just drop that into your plugins folder, activate it and pick the one you want to use. It doesn’t get anymore simple than that.

Now mix all of that with the Edit N Place plugin and now you don’t even have to login to WordPress to do edits to your existing pages under your Web site either.

 

How To Get Attention

Comments off · August 17, 2006 at 10:31 am · Hot Web Topics, Personal

Now it is no secret that I write a lot of articles and posts on a lot of different topics. From web hosting to Firefox to even freeware files, I pretty much cover it all. One thing that gets on my nerves more than anything else is somebody ordering me to write something about them.

I recently got an E-mail that started something like this:

Hi, I saw that you reviewed *Insert Random Topic Here* the other day. I can’t belive you missed reviewing my product. I have been around five times as long, and I have gotten so many awards. Why are you ignoring me?

Remember what your mother said about catching more flies with honey than vinegar? It was true! You think I am going to bend over backwards to help out a person like that? I don’t think so. Now how should have that have gone?

Hi, I saw that your review of *Insert Random Topic Here* and I loved it. Since you gave it a try, I would love it if you try my product as well. I have won a few awards for it, so I do think you might like checking it out. Thanks for your time!

If you want people to give you attention, try not to come off as an egotisical jerk.