There are very key differences between posts and pages in your WordPress site.
About Posts
Posts are entries listed in reverse chronological order on the site homepage or on the posts page if you have set one in Reading Settings. If you have created any sticky posts, those will appear before the other posts. Posts can be found in the Archives, Categories, Recent Posts, and other widgets. Posts are also displayed in the RSS feed of the site. You can control how many posts are displayed at a time in the Reading Settings.
If you want your posts to appear on a page other than your home page, see Front Page.
See Posts for more detailed information.
About Pages
Pages are static and are not listed by date. Pages do not use tags or categories. An About page is the classic example. Pages can be displayed in the sidebar using the Pages widget, and some themes display pages in the navigation at the top of the site.
See Pages for more detailed information.
How many can I have?
There is no limit on the number of posts or pages you can have.
How do I post to a Page?
All posts will appear on the main posts page, but you can also display specific posts on category pages with our custom menus feature. If you want, you can change the default page for posts to appear by changing Reading Settings in the Dashboard. This will likely require changing your Front page as well.
Pali Madra 6:11 pm on September 17, 2012 Permalink |
Notes regarding content created.
1. All the content has been copied over and blog has been substituted with site.
2. The link to the pages section has been created to the anchor text “pages” (http://make.wordpress.org/support/user-manual/05-just-write-in-wordpress/pages) though that page has to be created but would be created soon.
3. Did not feel the need to include “If you have 50 pages and you use the Pages widget, then all pages will be listed all the time.” in the Page section as it did not add anything meaningful.
4. There are too many links to should some be removed?
5. Suggested addition – comparison table of pages and posts.
Please let me know your thoughts and let me know if there are any edits required.
JerrySarcastic 1:30 am on September 20, 2012 Permalink |
@ipstenu – I think there’s a funky CSS issue that is causing the Pages heading to float: right by mistake.
This P2 creates a unique id for each h4 as it goes about generating the TOC, and in this case the id of #pages is grabbing afloat from somewhere. See what I mean?
Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 3:25 am on September 20, 2012 Permalink |
I do. Hey @otto42 – what did we break now?
Otto 2:16 pm on September 20, 2012 Permalink |
Fixed. Just don’t use headlines like “Pages” or other generic phrases we use elsewhere. Basically, we have a lot of predefined CSS for the wp.org site as a whole, and sometimes you’ll conflict with it. Just shift the wording a bit (like “About Pages” instead) and this should be enough to work around it.
JerrySarcastic 6:25 pm on September 20, 2012 Permalink |
Any way to modify the TOC code so it appends/prepends the id with a unique name instead? That’d help prevent future surprises as there may be other style conflicts we’ve yet to discover. Something like #pages-toc instead of #pages would do the trick without dirtying up the permalink too much.
Given access, I’m happy to make the mod; otherwise, careful naming of future headings works for me.