Let us continue where we left off in customizing/modifying your WordPress as CMS website. We’re almost there!

• Next (using FTP) download the wp-content/themes/yourtemplate/header.php file and open it in an HTML editor.
• Find the code: (usually toward the bottom of the page)

<ul id=”nav” class=”clearfloat”>
<li><a href=”<?php echo get_option(’home’); ?>/” class=”on”>Home</a></li>
<?php wp_list_pages(’title_li=’); ?>
</ul>

Comment out the “Home” so that the code now looks like this:

<ul id=”nav” class=”clearfloat”>
<li><a href=”<?php echo get_option(’home’); ?>/” class=”on”></a></li>
<?php wp_list_pages(’title_li=’); ?>
</ul>

• Upload the revised (and saved) header.php file to the same directory and check out the menu. It should only have one “Home” menu button. (note: some templates use different PHP script to call up the menu, so it’s a bit hit and miss. If you run into this problem just go to the WordPress Support Forum and search the solution.
• At this point in building your WordPress as CMS site you’ll want to configure your plugins. Most issues you may have will be in changing permissions with ChMod commands. This can usually be done through your FTP client. We recommend Filezilla. It’s free and versatile.

There you have it… all done except for some tweaks you may want to do to your new WordPress as CMS website. Please take the time (if you haven’t already) to learn your way around the admin section. It will be time well spent. This is the nerve center of your Content Management System. From here you can pretty much do it all.

Don’t overlook some powerful features/plugins that will help you such as All-In-One-SEO. We cannot stress enough how important search engine ranking is to generating free traffic to your CMS website.

If you have come this far with the WordPress as CMS installation then you probably know these things already, so I won’t harp anymore.  Happy blogging…er, ah CMSing!