: Is Wordpress appropriate for building a website (not a blog)? I want to start a website, but have no experience in this field. I've heard of Wordpress being a simple way to do things. However,

@Si4351233

I've built several "normal" websites using WordPress and whole-heartedly recommend it. There are tons of great professional-looking themes out there that can speed up development time, not to mentions the fabulous plug-in architecture of WordPress.

You can have as much control over element placement as you'd like. You can do so with templates, or add PHP/HTML code via widgets or directly in the page with a plug-in. There are also plug-ins that allow ads, rotating ads, ad networks, etc. And there are a number of free and premium ecommerce systems that work with PayPal, or you can use PayPal's merchant tools to create the buttons and related code.

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@Murphy175

I've heard of Wordpress being a simple way to do things.


Lie. WP was blog, is blog and die as blog (low-medium quality for now already). It's less better than "terrible" in the area of general-purpose CMS.

More reasonable way from any side will be find and learn fast, designed and developed as common-CMS system and use normal CMS for site-builds

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@Tiffany637

You can indeed create a page based website using only WordPress. I do this for my clients every week. WordPress has a pages panel that lets you create hierarchical pages. In order to place graphics, videos etc in any location you can do this for the most part. As far as the design of the site goes you would need to learn how to create a WordPress theme. Doing this would enable you to move content items be it videos, graphics or text in any place you would like using CSS.

You can purchase a premium WordPress theme or you can create your own theme. WordPress provides a powerful API and Theme API that allows for unlimited customization which would allow you to build a website.

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@LarsenBagley505

Having used WordPress purely as a blogging platform, I was indeed surprised to see that it can be put to very effective use in a wide range of scenarios.

Take a look at the WordPress Showcase and see what people are doing with it:


Network Solutions
Bungobox


To name a few.

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