Wordpress for static content

Is it advisable to use wordpress for website with static content? I am developing a niche and I am familiar with wordpress already. I want my site to be not a blog that ask for comment but a site with static content but gets updated regularly. So do you think using wordpress is ok. If not, what program can you refer that has wyswyg function that would be easier for somebody who has limited knowledge with html.

 

Wordpress can work fine for a static site. You might want to edit the template you use to remove the comments, author, time post, etc., and make sure you use the backup plugin to automatically email you a database backup since you won't have a static html copy locally.

 

you'd probably want to use one of the WP cache plugins to cache the php into HTML, so it doesnt unnecessarily eat up blog resources.

if you're only updating 1-3 times a day, i think it's ok to set the cache refresh at 10mins or more.

If you're using stumbleupon or other social networks, and you're using a shared webhosting account, you might run into a CPU quota exceeded problem and your blog will be frozen till the CPU utlilization drops (typically 20% of total system resources), and the blog is restored (I ran into this problem before).

 

Can the wordpress blog be changed into a static one without editing template.

For e.g. changing the posts option in the dashboard into static will help?

Any plugins for that?

Thanks

 

Wordpress is not going to create a traditional static page, the pages will still be generated dynamically (articles are stored on server in a mysql database), but you can certainly have a site that doesn't look like a blog. You can have a wordpress site that, to the visitor, looks identical to a static html site.

If you find the right template, then you won't likely need to edit it, but it really isn't very hard to do. Here is a "magazine layout" done in wordpress.

http://www.darrenhoyt.com/demo/mimbo2/

 

You have to use a magazine theme really to make it appear as a static site and delete the comments call funtion from the codes, or simply deactivate comments as a whole from the main dashboard of comments. Check out my site to see how it looks in a magazine theme.

 

Wordpress will be the best option for you.

 

Thanks for the great advice guys.

 

I try to check out your sites....most of them are down.

 

Before I got into bloging with wordpress.. I used the site like a normal wysiwyg site... Just ordered the pages and didn't make any post... For an example check out cimplie.com this is my cupcake shop.. no posts just content.. oh and I didn't even change the template.. so you really don't have to good luck