New Post or New Page?

byphpowell

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Updated 8 years ago

I wanted to share my thoughts today as a relative newbie on when it is best to use a Post and when it is best to build a new Page instead. This to me seems confusing and I will lay out my thoughts and hope that more experienced Wealthy Affiliate members will add to or correct mt thoughts. I suspect the ultimate answer is that it is a decision to be made with no real right or wrong answer, but let me try to provide some guidelines I use.

I use new pages when:

1. I want to add to the permanent structure of my site
2. I want users to be able to find things in an orderly fashion from my menus
3. The content for the page is relatively static and won't become outdated

I use Posts when:

1. I want to provide updates on the site
2. I want to share current events about my niche
3. I have timely news to share which may become outdated later, but I can publish later Posts to keep the site current

One thing that has puzzled me in the training is that Kyle teaches (and I followed) to create the Wealthy Affiliate Review as a Post and not as a new page. Maybe someone can explain why that is the preference or was that just an isolated instance? It seems to me that having a section of the website with pages for "Reviews" makes more sense. Would it make sense to recreate the Wealthy Affiliate Review as a Page and put it alongside other Review pages?

Another example to decide which to use would be a series of training. When I created my second site, My Affiliate Toolbox (http://www.myaffiliatetoolbox.com/wa), I created a Page for Free Online Marketing Training and I am building out pages under that for Lesson 1, Lesson 2, etc. Does that make sense or is Training better set as a Post? I would love to hear some thoughts here.