Some typical uses:
* Site colophon (about page)
* Archives
* Selected posts
* Links
* Contact info
* Special interests
* Etc, etc, and so on.
Of course, you can use Pages for whatever you want. But you cannot assign categories to them, as they were designed to exist outside the normal archival structure of regular posts.
thanks, I wish it did not show “Filed under: Uncategorized”
I wish pages either
1) Allowed catagories OR
2) Did not show a “Files under: xxxxx” lin on that one page (post)
but that’s just me !
What template are you using? As the “files under:xxxx’ is not written in stone. I had the same issue with the template that I modified, and wound up spending all last night wrasslin’ with the codex and template tags learning what some of those commands mean, so that my pages do not have that showing, nor allow for comment, just a clean interface that matches the posts pages in design. I highly recommend doing the same.
After that all night session, I’m THIS close to working on my own theme.
@themezz,
If the theme you are using doesn’t have a page.php template then WP automatically uses the index.php to display your Pages. (see Template Hierarchy in the Codex.)
In this case you can easily save your index.php as page.php and edit in a text editor: delete or comment out the template tags you don’t want to see there – comment link, category, date etc.
Is there a way to edit the index.html page so that it displays links to your Pages —- without creating a page.php or saving the index.html page “as” page.php?
You do not need a page.php file. Pages use “templates” and page.php is one of the optional templates. If you do not have a page.php, then the page will automatically generate using the index.php
To display links to your Pages, use the wp_list_pages() template tag in your header, sidebar or even footer or all of them to display links to Pages.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_pages
Or you can manually create links to Pages:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Linking_Posts_Pages_and_Categories
