Pages often confuse people who are new to Wordpress as they are virtually identical to posts.
The differences are in how you can use Pages.
Because they don't have the ability to add Tags or Categories, Pages are used for whats known as “static” content. Information that you need to have on a site, such as an About page, Privacy or Terms page, but that doesn't need to be manipulated.
Often a Page is used as a home page, rather than showing a list of posts. You can check out the next instalment of training to learn how to do it.
This can be quite effective if you have a message to give out or want to direct people to different areas of your site.
Pages shouldnt really be used for your general content that you are wanting your visitors to read, as they just arent flexible enough.
Setting up a Page is an identical process to setting up a Post, but click the Pages link in the menu instead.
The differences are in how you can use Pages.
Because they don't have the ability to add Tags or Categories, Pages are used for whats known as “static” content. Information that you need to have on a site, such as an About page, Privacy or Terms page, but that doesn't need to be manipulated.
Often a Page is used as a home page, rather than showing a list of posts. You can check out the next instalment of training to learn how to do it.
This can be quite effective if you have a message to give out or want to direct people to different areas of your site.
Pages shouldnt really be used for your general content that you are wanting your visitors to read, as they just arent flexible enough.
Setting up a Page is an identical process to setting up a Post, but click the Pages link in the menu instead.
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Lili D
Premium
Hi Apina and thank you for your helpful tips.
Currenty, what I am doing now ,is exactly the opposite of what you (and the other Wordpress veterans :) are advising: I use one of my static pages as a place for my articles. I know, this is not the right thing and I am trying to think out a better way of posting my content. Honestly , I don't like the blog structure, where posts don't belong anywhere. I prefer to have 2 or 3 pages where I can post articles of 2 different categories, so that people can easily find what they are looking for.
To get a better clue of what I am trying to explain: My website is about travelling to a country. I would like to have one page about the resorts and another page about the other places to visit in that country.
My idea is to post part of each article on the corresponing page and to put a link which will direct the people to the whole article (something like the"read more" link). But I don't know how to do that...
I would love to hear your opinion.
Thanks!
Lili
Currenty, what I am doing now ,is exactly the opposite of what you (and the other Wordpress veterans :) are advising: I use one of my static pages as a place for my articles. I know, this is not the right thing and I am trying to think out a better way of posting my content. Honestly , I don't like the blog structure, where posts don't belong anywhere. I prefer to have 2 or 3 pages where I can post articles of 2 different categories, so that people can easily find what they are looking for.
To get a better clue of what I am trying to explain: My website is about travelling to a country. I would like to have one page about the resorts and another page about the other places to visit in that country.
My idea is to post part of each article on the corresponing page and to put a link which will direct the people to the whole article (something like the"read more" link). But I don't know how to do that...
I would love to hear your opinion.
Thanks!
Lili
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Apina
Premium
Categories.
Thats what you want. Use posts (as pages cannot have categories) and attach a category to the post, lets say 5 posts have Resort as a category and 10 have Sightseeing.
You can then add the Category to your menu (see custom menus) so when a person clicks it they will see all posts in that category. You can further reduce the size of what they initially see by using a Post Excerpt.
Hopefully the theme you have can do that for you otherwise it becomes tiresome to do manually.
If you look at my site apinapress.com, every thing on the menu is a category. Each one leads to a list of posts in that category, and you can click a post to see the full article. Structured, easy to navigate and uses POSTS
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Thats what you want. Use posts (as pages cannot have categories) and attach a category to the post, lets say 5 posts have Resort as a category and 10 have Sightseeing.
You can then add the Category to your menu (see custom menus) so when a person clicks it they will see all posts in that category. You can further reduce the size of what they initially see by using a Post Excerpt.
Hopefully the theme you have can do that for you otherwise it becomes tiresome to do manually.
If you look at my site apinapress.com, every thing on the menu is a category. Each one leads to a list of posts in that category, and you can click a post to see the full article. Structured, easy to navigate and uses POSTS
:P
Ronan-Mark
Premium
Thank-you very much Dean. I was uncertain about when to use pages and posts. Cheers.
