• Last night I had a thought that maybe I should be using categories rather than pages in my WP blog. I haven’t been able to find any real information about this on google so I wanted to ask here. My website is real estate, and has quite a few static “pages” as the content doesn’t change much.

    However, I thought if using posts and recreating the links in my menu navigation from the page links to category links would give any benefit, I might want to do it. Does anyone have thoughts or feedback on this?

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  • Thread Starter shock976

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    Does anyone have any insight about this? Just wondering what would be the best method for my site. Hope to hear something.

    you should use pages for static content that doesn’t change much, if at all.

    Use posts for things you want to update regularly in a blog format. Maybe you have a new property every week you want to post up. Then you can use categories to group those properties, maybe by price, or location, or any other logical groupings you can think of.

    It’s not a technical benefit, more on what kind of organization would make more sense for your site.

    Thread Starter shock976

    (@shock976)

    What about for content I might update every few months? (testimonials from clients, new information for Buyers, etc.) right now for instance I have a Buyer page that has static information at the top, and links that link out to other interior pages of my site. The content on these pages don’t change much, but I would add more pages when new info is available. I am wondering rather than having links on my static page to other sub pages, if there is a better way to categorize.

    If you want to see an example:

    http://jerodmayer.com/index.php/home-buyer-resources

    Thank you everyone for the help. I am basically wanting to improve Organic search engine results if nothing else.

    it’s fine to use pages for those. looks like there are too many links to put directly in the nav menu

    Thread Starter shock976

    (@shock976)

    I do have too many links to place in the nav menu only. However, I thought if I did the blog format for these, then I could eliminate the links, and just have the pages in blog format. However, since the information is specific to what buyers might want to know, I am not sure how effective the blog structure would be. Also, what do you think about my Testimonials page? That page has testimonials from past clients, and I update that page about every couple months. I was thinking of making this page a blog category… I also wanted to code my homepage, to pull a random blog post each time the page is loaded. Just looking for the most productive way to set this up. If you have any suggestions on layout, etc I would love some input.

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