Posts or Pages for Everything?

  • jimf81

    (@jimf81)


    12 years, 4 months ago

    Hi

    I have a bit of a kind of newbie question about posts and pages, but I am experienced with WordPress now. Sounds silly I know but wanted some thoughts on whether to just use posts for everything on the site with the exception of the terms and conditions, privacy policy page etc.

    So for services I offer I will use posts, not pages and predominantly the reason is because so many plugins pull data from posts and categories to show carousels, slideshows, galleries, related posts that it makes more sense to do this. Posts for the blog will use separate categories.

    I was perhaps going to create a category called services or a category for each type of service and that way when I use one of the plugins data can populate how I like. Very few plugins seem to offer functionality for showing pages in this way related to other pages without using the child page feature or farting about with other things.

    What are people’s thoughts on this? Only concerns are seo and Google ignoring service posts when they are a few years old. Off course I would remove the date and author from showing on these posts.

    Any downside people can think of?

    Overall it seems posts offer more flexibility and usefulness than pages in WordPress.

    Many thanks

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  • Wil

    (@limecanvas)

    12 years, 4 months ago

    Hi Jim

    It’s a good and relevant question especially regarding Google and SEO.

    Yes, if your content has a date associated with it then Google will take that into consideration.

    One of the SEO tips I started using a couple of years ago was to remove the post date/time on “timeless” articles to keep their SEO relevance.

    Seems to have made a difference.

    We use pages for all our timeless content – which includes general services pages, company info, contact info etc..

    We also use custom post types (CPTs) for some of our specific services so that we can link those into custom developed processes.

    We use posts only for our blog area.

    Wil.

    Fme Addons

    (@fme-addons)

    12 years, 4 months ago

    The best for SEO to keep those services as pages instead of post because you have to set the page change frequency in sitemap, different for posts and different for pages. There are many other things that you wont be able to do properly by using post to publish services

    Thread Starter jimf81

    (@jimf81)

    11 years, 11 months ago

    just logged in to see this many thanks for your thoughts, very useful.

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