Title: Pages
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Pages

 *  [theMezz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themezz/)
 * (@themezz)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pages-2/)
 * I understand what the CREATE PAGE function does, but what would a practical use
   of a PAGE be? I created a PAGE with some content, but I am not able to figure
   out how to assign it to a catagory that has been created already.

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 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pages-2/#post-200460)
 * 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.
 *  Thread Starter [theMezz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themezz/)
 * (@themezz)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pages-2/#post-200901)
 * 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 !
 *  [Michael Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miklb/)
 * (@miklb)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pages-2/#post-200902)
 * 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.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pages-2/#post-200904)
 * [@themezz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/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](http://codex.wordpress.org/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.
 *  Thread Starter [theMezz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themezz/)
 * (@themezz)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pages-2/#post-200929)
 * Great info.. thanks guys
 *  Thread Starter [theMezz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themezz/)
 * (@themezz)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pages-2/#post-200930)
 *  [Deja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deja/)
 * (@deja)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pages-2/#post-201155)
 * 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?
 *  [Lorelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorelle/)
 * (@lorelle)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pages-2/#post-201156)
 * 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/Pages)
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_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](http://codex.wordpress.org/Linking_Posts_Pages_and_Categories)

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 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 8 replies
 * 6 participants
 * Last reply from: [Lorelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorelle/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pages-2/#post-201156)
 * Status: not resolved

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