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[David91]

by post do you mean a seperate page? like you want another page that is displayed as a link in the sidebar, instead of displaying on the front page.

if so select "Write new Page" in your Wordrpress Admin, and when your finished writing it select Publish. This wont be displayed on the front page, and will be given its own link in the sidebar and act like its own page.

 

[David91]

if your theme supports widgits you can enable a sidebar widget to show the pages on your website. to check this (im hoping your running the very latest version of Wordpress) go into your admin page, then into the appearance tab then into widgets.

if your theme supports widgets you will see a list of items you can add. click on the 'Add' next to Pages and then save the changes, this should have enabled it and when you check your website it should have shown up in your sidebar.

to remove the Pages from the top bar requires some removal of code, and its been a while since ive routed through the wordpress layout, so unfortunately ive forgotten how to get rid of it.

but hopefully you should now see your pages in your Sidebar

 

[malef!c]

Its not that 'simple' because most people who use Wordpress use it as a blog so everything they type they want on the front page for people to read

I think the only way you will be able to do what you want is with a bit of code hacking or get someone to tweak a theme to your needs.

 

[unwashed potato!]

unfortunately you will need a plugin for this but it's very very easy to install plugins, just upload them to the plugin folder then you're done really. just need to activate them in the dashboard.

not sure exaclty what the plugin is called as the stupid server is always down for me (i think someone is purposely doing this tough) think it was called advanced category excluder. you can then select which categorys to show on the main page.

but then saying that on the settings -> reading, page there is the option to have frontpage as a static page showing a choice of your current page. that do what you want?

 

[unwashed potato!]

ok what i have suggested at the end should do what you want, almost. you want the about us page to be the home page? select that then if im reading you right thats it? now new posts will be displayed under the categories they are posted under and thats it.

it sounds like you want a cms and not a blog though.

 

[t31os]

It's not hard, if you check the wordpress docs you would have solved this within 5 minutes....

Categorise your posts, then exclude set categories from displaying on the page....

It's how i do it on my install, i have it only display posts from the blog category....

Took me 5 minutes referring to the Wordpress docs...

I speak in reference to what displays on the page, the sidebar is another issue, but i'd imagine it's just easy...

I do this in the theme's index.php... *this is a snippet obviously*

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
                <?php query_posts('cat=12'); ?>
        <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

Where cat 12 is the category blog...

Wordpress also gives the option to use a static page as the Frontpage, it's right there in the options, and details on how to use it are documented 'again' on the Wordpress website.

The well documented pages at Wordpress are actually one of the largest reasons i'm using it, i have a problem, and 9 out 10 times it's already documented and/or explained, though with the amount of easily answered questions posted on the WP forum, it's not uncommon for people to not read the Docs.

 

[fini]

Wow some of you guys are giving unnecessarily complicated answers!

First, if you're using it as a CMS (for which it is one of the best), you want to be using pages not posts (unless you also want a blog). To set which page is your homepage go to settings, reading then choose 'static homepage' and choose which one you want.

To get a sidebar rather than a top bar you should open up header.php, find the menu code, cut it out, open sidebar.php, paste it in and then in style.css find the line that's making the li horizontal and delete it. You could just find another theme that suits your needs better which would be even easier.

I must ask though, why are you using a standard theme for your company website? Aren't you worried how unprofessional that will look?