Page and post auto links

Question

I dont know how to call it, but can I switch off auto linking in Wordpress?

I am creating my 3. theme for client, but I have not manage this problem.

For example, if I create a page or post, Wordpress automatically create a permalink on my site, www.mysite.com/posttitle. But if I wanna use this post to display it into the home page, for example it have only few lines, like copyrights or whatever.

So I create new page/post and display it into my theme by query_posts. And all is fantastic, until I type www.mysite/copyright and there I can see only my copyrights.

How do you manage this kind of problem? Of course I can hard code it into my template, but it isnt a solution form me.

I hope you get my thought.

UPDATE. Ok I found better example :

If I wanna create portfolio page where will be all my work. So I create new template file, than new page, new category and add new posts to that category.

So I have that page mysite.com/portfolio and there is all those posts ( works ). Just title, picture and some small description.

But wordpress is automatically creating those links mysite.com/portfolio/work1, but I dont wanna it.

Answer 1

You don't have to create a post to hold your data, you can use the Settings API

for example you put in your functions.php:

$copyright = get_option('my_them_copyright');
if (!isset($copyright)){
    $copyright =  'Design by: <a href="domain.com">ME</a>';
    update_option('my_them_copyright',$copyright);
}

and then whenever you want to call it you use get_option() like this:

$copyright = get_option('my_them_copyright');
echo $copyright;

Update

like i commented any post/page will get a permalink automatically but what you can do is register your own post type

<?php
add_action('init', 'register_generic_data');
function register_generic_data()   
{
  $labels = array(
    'name' => _x('Generic Data', 'post type general name'),
    'singular_name' => _x('Generic Data', 'post type singular name'),
    'add_new' => _x('Add New', 'Generic Data'),
    'add_new_item' => __('Add New Generic Data'),
    'edit_item' => __('Edit Generic Data'),
    'new_item' => __('New Generic Data'),
    'view_item' => __('View Generic Data'),
    'search_items' => __('Search Generic Data'),
    'not_found' =>  __('No Generic Data found'),
    'not_found_in_trash' => __('No Generic Data found in Trash'), 
    'parent_item_colon' => ''
  );
  $args = array(
    'labels' => $labels,
    'public' => true,
    'publicly_queryable' => false,
    'exclude_from_search' => true,
    'show_in_nav_menus' => false,
    'show_ui' => true, 
    'query_var' => false,
    'rewrite' => false,
    'capability_type' => 'post',
    'hierarchical' => true,
    'menu_position' => 20,
    'supports' => array('title','editor','author','thumbnail','excerpt','trackbacks','custom-fields','comments','revisions','page-attributes'),
    'taxonomies' => array('category','post_tag')
  ); 
  register_post_type('gen_data',$args);
};?>

Now if you take a close look at this part:

    'publicly_queryable' => false,
    'exclude_from_search' => true,
    'show_in_nav_menus' => false,
    'query_var' => false,
    'rewrite' => false,
    'show_ui' => true, 

you can see that we set the post type to have a ui and to show in the admin menu but other then that its "none public".

so you can create your portfolio posts using this post type or any other "generic data types" that need post capabilities.