One of the most important features of our WordPress blogging platform is the ability to create Posts and Pages.
In WordPress, you can write either posts or pages. When you’re writing a regular blog entry, you write a post. Posts automatically appear in reverse chronological order on your blog’s home page. Pages, on the other hand, are for content such as “About Me,” “Contact Me,” etc. Pages live outside of the normal blog chronology, and are often used to present information about yourself or your site that is somehow timeless — information that is always applicable. You can use Pages to organize and manage any amount of content.
Taken from The WordPress Codex – Pages.
A good example of how you can tie a page into a site that offers a service is to think of a page as being static, it never changes and as such you could use a page to display your contact details, company history and an about page.
A page can be a sub page of a pre-existing page, for instance you create a page called ‘About Us’ and then create sub pages for ‘Our History’, ‘Our Staff’ and ‘Contact Us’.
A Post however can be tagged and categorised as well as being date based so you could create Posts about products you have on offer and categorise them.
For example, you have a blue t-shirt that you would like to advertise – you could write a post about this with images and give it categories ‘Clothing’ and ‘Special Offers’, you could also tag it as ‘blue’ and ‘t-shirt’.
Do not be afraid to experiment with your FREE blog site and also ask our support staff questions.
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