As title need to find away of removing date from post as WP used for cms on static site, also would like to remove previous post link from showing at top of page.
You can buy a CMS template and that doesn't use it... you can use a plug in. Or you can track down the code and modify it. Date exclusion plug in example: http://www.dailyblogtips.com/date-exclusion-wordpress-plugin/ It's an old post so you'll probably want to look for a newer version that is compatible with the version you are using.
Open the single.php file of the theme that you are using and look for this <?php the_time('M d, Y') ?>. That is your date display. Take it out. In some themes it's in the post.php, or postinfo.php