As you have seen while reading this book, WordPress comes fully equipped to power a blog, with all of the particular requirements of post handling, categorization, chronological display, and so on, that come with a blog. However, powering blogs is not WordPress' only purpose. Not anymore. In fact, there are millions of websites out there right now that run WordPress, but where blogging is not the primary focus of the website. I myself have built a number of such sites.
Just to give you a general idea of what's possible, the following is a list of some popular non-blog type websites that you can build and launch using WordPress (we will cover some of them in more detail later in this and the next chapter):
- Static websites: These feature just a handful of static subpages that are not meant to be updated very often; also...