Wordpress CMS Theme

[Chris]

Anyone know of a basic easy-to-edit theme that sets Wordpress up like a CMS rather than a blog with pages instead of archives listed on the sidebar and a homepage that isn't the most recent posts?

[Johnny Gulag]

Any theme can be edited to do this, without too much trouble. It just depends on what all functionality you need as far as how much editing there will be.

The latest version of WP has the ability to change the front page by default under: (options>reading) in the menu.

As far as listing pages in the sidebar with no archives is just a matter of removing code from the sidebar.php file in most themes.

You just need this in the sidebar:
<?php wp_list_pages(); ?>There are many parameters for it: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_pages

If you want to remove the ability for users to leave comments than you can edit the single.php file to remove the include for comments.php.

More questions, just ask. Need help, hit me up. :)

[BGray]

Chris,

It just takes a few tweaks in the templates adding and removing a few tags.
I did this on a site I developed with a family member of mine:

www.bestfeatherbeds.com

[Todd W]

Chris,

It just takes a few tweaks in the templates adding and removing a few tags.
I did this on a site I developed with a family member of mine:

www.bestfeatherbeds.com

FYI: Your permalink structure is not setup to be SEO friendly.

[Billyray]

The plugin at the following link allows you to change the order of the pages to suit your needs which is very handy.

http://geekyweekly.com/mypageorder/

[bassplaya]

You can still use blog posts like pages, just need to dump alot of template junk. IMHO you'll like to keep pages organized by categories. Look @ my (http://sb2.info/) blog, I can help you with something similar-looking

>homepage that isn't the most recent posts?
Static homepage can be enabled in preferences.

@ BGray - getting 500 for www.bestfeatherbeds.com, good luck mod_rewrighting)