Comments on: Creating Content in WordPress: Posts vs. Pages

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Post vs. Page — WordPress.com | Virtual Riders wordpress resources — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:04:36 +0000

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By: Kirk

Kirk — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:49:22 +0000

@Gary Without knowing more about your site or your content, I suggest that you consider using Categories and child Categories for your posts. Using your example, your Home category would have child categories of Health and Finance. Posts from all three categories (the parent category and two child categories) will be displayed on the parent category’s archive page. If you want more control over formatting you can create custom templates for each parent category.

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 05:15:39 +0000

Very nice – cleared up confusion for me.

However, can you please suggest how to do this:

I’d like various kinds of pages, eg.: products, services, rants & raves.
Then, I’d like to write posts in each page (and each page would have its own categories; for example, products page would have categories such as home, health, finance, etc. and services page might have categories such as insurance, debt, etc.)

Right now, I just have a blog page. I’d like to be able to target blogs to go into these pages instead. So, I wouldn’t like a reader who came to my “products” blog to click on the calendar and see my blog post on maid service.

Is it even possible to do this? Or do I have to just create different WP installs into each subfolder on my site (like root/products/blog, root/services/blog)? If the latter, then it is going to be terrible because then I have to recreate all my plug in settings and services, right? (eg., my onlywire plugin has around 50 services!)

Please advice.

Thanks,

Gary

By: Kirk

Kirk — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 03:47:58 +0000

@Tracey It really depends on the theme. Some themes automatically include all pages on the nav bar. Check Appearance -> Menu. If your theme supports menus it might just be displaying a list of pages because you haven’t yet created a custom menu. If that’s the case you can create a new menu and include only the pages that you want on the nav bar.

Take a look at the tutorial on menus: http://wpapprentice.com/videos/customize/how-to-create-menus-in-wordpress/

By: Tracey

Tracey — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 03:08:06 +0000

This post helped crystalize the difference–excellent explanation. However, I can’t seem to find an answer to my problem of how to create pages without every one showing up on the top navigation bar. I want to use pages only as part of a widget menu on the side. Surely every page doesn’t have to be a tab on top, right? Please direct me to the video explaining this, as I have been unable to find one. Thanks!

By: led message sign

led message sign — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:24:17 +0000

Thanks for the video . now I used wordpress design my website.

By: Kirk

Kirk — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:42:43 +0000

@pat – go to Settings -> Reading. You have the option to set a page as your home page. Be sure to set another page as your blog page. Your lists of posts will show up on that page.

By: Kirk

Kirk — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:39:29 +0000

Pages are better for hierarchical content, but they don’t scale well if you’re going to be adding a lot of content as time goes on. If your lessons are easily grouped into categories, then I would go with a post for each lesson and use categories to organize the lessons by type. Then use wp menus to create navigation in your sidebar (using the menu widget).

By: Charlene Proctor

Charlene Proctor — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 07:56:39 +0000

Thanks for a really informative video. I have wanted to try a few different options on my Autism site and your video answered my questions on pages and posts. Many Thanks.

By: Pat

Pat — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 03:30:23 +0000

Thank you . Now I am hoping to find out how to keep a post off a page so that the opening pages do not look like blogs.