WordPress – Page vs. Post
I’ve been helping a lot of people with their WordPress blogs lately. I suggest WordPress to everyone who wants to maintain their own website. The system is very user friendly. By customizing existing WordPress templates I’m able to provide customers with unique sites for a reasonable price.
While WordPress is easy to use I have noticed one thing that people find confusing initially. When a person adds material to their WordPress site they either add a page or a post. The difference between pages and posts can be hard to understand at first glance. So let me try to explain it. We’ll be using this blog as an example: BeetleEyes
Pages
Use pages for single items like:
- About Me – http://www.beetleeyes.com/?page_id=11
- Privacy Policy – http://www.beetleeyes.com/?page_id=2
Pages are NOT put into categories. They are stand-alone items.
Posts
Use posts for items that will be included in categories like:
- Recipes/Cooking – http://www.beetleeyes.com/?cat=2
- Gardening – http://www.beetleeyes.com/?cat=6
- Useful Websites – http://www.beetleeyes.com/?cat=7
Posts are items that are part of a series and are put into categories.
Conclusion
Like most things in life, once you’ve done this a few times it seems simple. After people understand pages and posts maintaining the WordPress site becomes very easy.
If you’d like a customized WordPress site please feel free to contact me.
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July 9th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
[...] into WordPress and begin to write a page or a post. (For the difference between the two see this article. ) Below the area where you’re working (the editor) you’ll notice an upload area. [...]
March 15th, 2008 at 6:19 am
Simple but useful, thanks!
June 29th, 2008 at 6:47 am
thanks! simple and straight to the point examples.
November 28th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
That’s precisely what I needed to know.
WordPress is SORELY lacking in the heuristic interface department.
November 28th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
I’m glad I can help!
December 19th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
[...] originally posted this article back in June of 2007. I send the link to clients on a regular basis as this is a common issue [...]
January 11th, 2009 at 10:05 am
Since my blog has suffered several blockage in different host sites due to supposed CPU overload when approaching 4,000 visit/day I’ve been looking, with no success so far, for a host service that can support more visits/day.
I’ve been told that solution is to use as much static content as possible, and the only explanation I’ve found about differences between thoss two concepts is what you have wrote here. However I don’t see how I can implement it in my blog which is 100% categorized, and I don’t understand why my blog created CPU overload in my paid host service servers, where I have my domain in, but has no that problem in WordPess free service servers.
I’d like to move my blog back to my host, specially because for reasons I ignore the number of daily visits has fell down as soon as I move it to WP servers.
Any suggestion?
January 11th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
CMP – Your website host can’t handle 4,000 pages a day? That doesn’t sound like a very robust website host. Why don’t you give HostMySite a call and explain your situation.
Also, WordPress pages aren’t really “static”. Page contents are stored in a database just like posts.
March 1st, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Thanks for the info. I’m a frustrated print graphic designer trying to teach myself web. I’ll be puttin’ your blog on my RSS feed.
Love your site designs. Elegant and practical. WordPress seems the way to go!
Thanks again Marsha.