How to Make a Wordpress Static Site
It is really easy to create static Wordpress sites.
Find a nice template you like. There are many sites with free Wordpress templates. Go to Google and do a search on ” Free Wordpress Templates” or “Free Wordpress Themes”.
If you don’t need things in the sidebar like calenders or archives etc, a simple solution is to go to design>widgets and by adding widgets you can make the sidebar look exactly as you like. This way you don’t have to touch any code.
Add the all in one seo plugin
Add the privacy policy plugin. Optional, but I always have a privacy policy on my sites.
Add a sitemap plugin if you want. Good for Search Engines
Add a Google Sitemap.
If you want Adsense or affilaite banners add the ads manager plugin or any of the other wordpress plugins available. I use ads manager. It also can be used to easily add other types of banners to a page and control it by the Admin panel. With ad smanager you also need:
exec php plugin. Might need this if you are going to hard code includes into the template. I use it to add banners to the sidebar via widgets and the text widget. If you don’t know what this means then forget it.
Find the plugins at Wordpress.org or do a Google search for each of the above plugins. If I am looking for some type of plugin I usually do a Google search by “keyword” and then “wordpress plugin.”
Activate plugins in your wp admin panel. They are located in the plugins link to the right if you are using Wordpress 2.5. Read the instructions that are on the individual author plugin sites as to how to use them.
Create a page. Label it whatever you like. Scroll down the page writing panel to all in one seo area and add keywords and description to your page.
Scroll down some more to comments and pings and turn off Allow Comments so you won’t see a user comment box. If you want also un-check Allow Pings. It is up to you. I un-check both.
All the way on the bottom of the page you will see Page order. If you want to have a certain order to your pages in your category menu then name the page you want on top of the menu 1 then the next page you create 2 etc. You can later change the order of your pages by using this feature. This is good so that maybe a sales page will be on top.
I also use the subcategories Parent - child a lot. An example. I will make a page say articles and then add different article pages as a subcategory to articles. For me everything is then neat and orderly. But this technique is up to you.
In the Wordpress admin panel go to settings>reading. On top you will see reading settings. Then “front page displays”. In the front page displays check the radio button “A static page (select below)” and then from the front page drop down menu click the page you want to use for your front page. That page I usually title Welcome or I will add a keyword rich title. if you don’t want any title leave blank.
Now you have the start of a static website with Wordpress. Use pages instead of posts, add keywords and descriptions via all in one seo and your site is static. Control the sidebar with widgets.
You can add to it but this will give you a basic static website.
Do not choose templates that make use of the wordpress tagging feature. Some of these templates are called newspaper themes. They are a little harder to do and take a little more to understand.
Probably you can find someone who has time on their hands to do it for you. I have a problem with doing the word for someone mainly because no one ever did it for me. I learned myself. I just did the research and mainly used Google to find anything I needed. And the advantage was that I learned very fast.
If you don’t do it yourself you are at the mercy of other people. If you do it yourself and, this is really easy once you get the hang of it, you can keep your site updated and fresh very fast.
This Chinese proverb is very powerful and I think about it every day:
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
