Using posts or pages?

  • Resolved scorix

    (@scorix)


    13 years, 12 months ago

    Hey

    I’m in the process of creating a website, and using WordPress for the first time. On said website, I will have a lot of guides (in the long run, well over 1000 guides), and they will each be on their seperate page, so using pages for the guides are the natural choice. But lately, while reading different blogs and websites about WordPress, I get the impression that most people are just using posts when posting articles/guides/whatever.

    So I’m starting to wonder, what should I use? Is there any important differences between the two?

    I’m currently reading up on the Pretty Permalinks, and one blog suggested to use /%category%/%postname%/ as a custom structure. How will URLs for pages look when I have chosen /%postname%/?

    Any help is appreciated =)

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  • racer x

    (@racer-x-1)

    13 years, 12 months ago

    The BIG difference between pages and posts is that posts are automatically part of your RSS feed. The great feature of WP is that it creates this feed for you. Users who end up following your RSS may want to know when you post a new guide. That is the beauty of WP, users would know instantly of new posts if they were following your RSS feed.

    Use Pages for more “set in stone” content.(eg: about us, contact, etc.) The stuff users won’t need to be updated on or does not hold viable content to them keeping up with your latest content.

    You can play around with the different permalink structures and see how they look, but I recommend settling on one soon. If users start to follow your blog, they may bookmark a page. If you change your permalink structure in a few months, those users would have invalid links to their bookmarked page on your site.

    Thread Starter scorix

    (@scorix)

    13 years, 12 months ago

    Thanks, that’s very helpful! I’ll have to redo some of my pages and make posts instead now 😛

    Switching permalinks wont be a problem yet, since my blog is closed to the public for the time being.

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