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WordPress is beautiful and functional content management system. However, due to its excessive popularity among bloggers, it is mostly seen as a blogging-only tool.

WordPress has native features for a static home page in it. For instance, a WordPress installation first looks for home.php which can be used as a front page. It only loads index.php if there is no home.php specified. Let me tell you what that means in plain english: You don’t have to be stuck with themes and templates that are prepared primarily blogging in mind. WordPress has a feature so called pages, that are apart from the blogging cycle. By using home.php, header.php, footer.php, sidebar.php (alongside with sidebar widgets or not) and several pages.php, you can easily use WordPress for your static web site content, for instance for your corporate web site or brochure-ware.

I won’t go into detail right now because there are tons of documentation on the web about how to prepare a home.php, how to prepare page templates for WordPress.

Why should I use WordPress if I am going to have just a static web site?

Because you will still benefit from hundreds of plugins developed for bloggers. Then you will also benefit from a great documentation. Furthermore, you will take the advantage of WordPress’ builtin editor, management panel, etc.

Why don’t you put together a tutorial for what you tell here?

It’s just a matter of time. I’ll try to provide one soon.

We are only hours away from the Shonfonfe theme for Blogger. See it in development here: http://kerizettin.blogspot.com and here: http://goddess-artemis.blogspot.com

I am happy to introduce you a clean, minimal, new WordPress theme. It’s WordPress Sidebar Widgets compatible.

See Shonfonfe in action:
http://jefe.hayatkisa.com/

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The template is more or less the classic wordpress template with a little fiddling on it. Phu Ly’s Treba was a good starting point too. Well, of course the greatest inspiration came from National Geographic Magazine’s famous yellow frame.

The stylesheet is easy to work on. There are not much details, just a little more than 250 lines.

The theme is licensed under the CC Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 License.

Feel free to play and tweak with it. If you come across any bugs or have any questions, please leave a comment to this post.