Title: Setting up
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Setting up

 *  Resolved [lightbearer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lightbearer/)
 * (@lightbearer)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-up-4/)
 * I just recently installed WordPress and have been getting familiar as I can with
   how to use it, but don’t quit understand the difference between a page and a 
   post.
    I would like to set up my site more like a website style rather than a
   blog style. By that I mean that I would like to have a home page that is an intro
   to my site, and a menu with categories that I publish new pages to. I’m having
   trouble figuring out how to create each post as a page under a category. I don’t
   understand the difference between a page and a post and how to make it work so
   that I will create a new page for each post and place it in the appropriate category.

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 *  Moderator [cubecolour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/numeeja/)
 * (@numeeja)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-up-4/#post-2701152)
 * It sounds like you will want to ignore posts and just create your content as 
   pages
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages](http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages)
 *  Thread Starter [lightbearer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lightbearer/)
 * (@lightbearer)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-up-4/#post-2701153)
 * I’ve been playing around with it some more and when I create a new page, I don’t
   have the option of placing it in one of the categories I created, but when I 
   post, I have the option of placing it in one of the categories that I created.
   
   OK, I just read the docs about pages, and I will have to adapt to this unless
   or until I learn more. Thanks
 *  Moderator [cubecolour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/numeeja/)
 * (@numeeja)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-up-4/#post-2701167)
 * Posts have categories, pages do not.
 * Using a website about Otters as an arbitrary example, If you have six pages about
   different kinds of Otter, you wouldn’t use categories, but would have a parent
   page called Otters and each page for a specific type of Otter would be assigned
   as a child of that page.

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