Since Pages usually serve as perennial content, they would quickly vanish from the feed as new Posts were published. Cleared up some confusion for me particularly that pages can be used in a hierarchical fashion and tend to be more static whereas posts are date and time sensitive and are organized by categories and tags.
Very efficient video and great tips! Just started using wordpress, figuring out best how to use posts vs pages and this helped! Right now, I just have a blog page. Is it even possible to do this?
If the latter, then it is going to be terrible because then I have to recreate all my plug in settings and services, right? Gary Without knowing more about your site or your content, I suggest that you consider using Categories and child Categories for your posts. Using your example, your Home category would have child categories of Health and Finance. If you want more control over formatting you can create custom templates for each parent category. Hi Kirk. Basically i want to create a blog for a team of people to use for communicating and collaborating on a project which involves a new website.
I thought it would be possible to create pages for these categories then each page would have a blog that is specific to that page. WordPress creates those automatically for each category. You can add categories to your site menu take a look at the lesson on custom menus. What I am trying to do is open a small homemade jewelry site. It would only be selling say up to 10 pieces of jewelry at a time.
On the Necklaces page, I would have what would look like a photo gallery that you could click on each necklace with a description, price and Paypal button. Same with the Earrings page, a photo gallery with description, price and Paypal button. Any idea how to accomplish this with the core WP 3. Thanks… Judy. Each of those products needs to be created somehow. Ideally one that will let you enter each product as a unique item.
Even with a small number of products manual coding is no fun. Kirk, a quick question: are the posts you showed in your examples found in the Blog tab in your menu?
Hi Linda, Yes, one of the lists of posts is on the Blog page listed on the top menu. I moved posts to that page using the Reading Settings more information in the Reading Settings lesson. I also show a list of posts on an archive page. WordPress creates those archive pages automatically for every category and tag you create. So it worried me. So inorder to show up in google , which one is better , pages or post? A Comment is the discussion thread that you can if you wish have for a page or a post.
Basically the same thing you are doing now, you are commenting by asking a question. Hope that helps. The person hosting my site insists posts are the way to go rather than pages. I am used to using HTML for other sites and have no problem with building the links. I like the idea of being able to have my own descriptions and order for the articles list and fail to see the advantages of posts for this. Any insights? If I used posts I belief I could assign them to an articles category to keep them together but could I then arrange them in my preferred order and write or change my own descriptions?
I have started to write on Pages. How do I link one page to the next in chronological order on each Page published? For example, in posts, there is a link to the previous and the next post.
I cannot find this in Pages. Can you help please? Please take a look at our guide on the difference between posts vs pages in WordPress. You may also want to check out our guide on the difference between self hosted WordPress. Please be so kind to help me invert the order of appearance of new sections in a page — I want new sections to appear on top, not on the bottom of the page.
Many thanks in advance! Thanks for a very interesting article. What a great point! I suppose the main reason for publishing it as a Post is that the author wants us to share it! As I have just done on Twitter. If I read the article correctly you wanted to receive comments and posts enable that more easily than pages. Also this content may change as new releases alter functionality. Just a thought. This is a useful and very clear post. In my case, the Products in question are books by various authors.
If I list them as Posts then website visitors can use Categories to filter them by Author. However I cannot see how to add Author photo and biographical info to the same result page. I have even tried a number of dedicated book and ecommerce themes, but none of them seems to provide for what I thought would be a basic ingredient.
Am I missing something? Thanks in any case for the good work! You may want to check our guide on Why do you need a custom post type or taxonomy in WordPress. Short and to the point. I spent all night going through the blog support site with no answers… only to have this clearly explained in a less than 2 minute video! This article is very useful. I have a question though. I have been experimenting with putting Categories in the Menu as described, in order to have certain posts appear on a single display if you click on a certain menu item.
This seems to work EXCEPT that the posts then appear without titles, dates or anywhere for a reader to leave a comment. Is there a way to get these details to display please? Hey its a great article. I just wanted to know one thing that if the sites like, use a page or post to give in contents i am really confused because there are separate plugins that allow a user to post like feature on a page.
Im a total noob at WP.. Can i ask how do I add categories in the posts? For eg. Baking and Homestuffswedo. I understand that posts are categorize in different timings so I hope I am able to categorize them in different themes.
Please see our guide on Categories and Tags in WordPress. I have a website built mostly from pages, and we are now trying to enable blogging, and it refuses to play nicely because of there being no way to specify template for posts. The site is based on Twenty Eleven. But when I click to view one of the posts, I go to a full-width format, and the content from the Main Sidebar is laid directly on top of the content from the post. I have pulled what little hair I have left out over this, and I am no further along than I was days ago.
Anyone able to provide me with links to ideas, solutions, workarounds, similar situations? Lets say you have a news site and you want posts to appear on Local News, Sports, Opinion pages. You can do that by creating categories local news, sports, opinion. When writing a post simply select the category you want to file that post into. Now if someone clicks on Sports they will go to the page where all your sports related posts will appear. This is on track with my question.
I have it so my posts go in the correct category pages, but once in there the entire post shows up. Is there a way to display only a preview or grid after selecting a category page? For news articles I see how this layout makes sense. I am posting recipes and would like my readers to be able to view a grid of all my posts and then selecting individually.
When I tried using the Post Grid plug-in, it made all of my posts, regardless of category, show up. There must be a way to add a post to only the page you want it visible on.
What am I missing? It seems not at all intuitive or user friendly. You should use Categories for sorting your posts. Thanks for choosing to leave a comment. Please keep in mind that all comments are moderated according to our comment policy , and your email address will NOT be published. Please Do NOT use keywords in the name field. Let's have a personal and meaningful conversation. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Don't subscribe All Replies to my comments Notify me of followup comments via e-mail.
You can also subscribe without commenting. All Rights Reserved. Readers often ask us: Why do I need both? When should I use posts? You can set different menus in different divices also premium feature. Different menu in different countries Premium. Set different menu from a post's or page's add or edit page. It is a premium feature. Backup and restore feature. You can simply backup your all different menus with it's settings conditions you set.
It is for premium version only. Menu duplicator. FAQ How do I install the plugin? Normal installation Download the different-menus-in-different-pages. Unzip the file. How do I backup the plugin It is paid feature. You can backup settings by following steps: Please note: When you will restore the previous settings then previous settings will be removed.
Where can I get support? But thanks to the fantastic support I received, I was able to solve the problem in no time. Not only did their support team respond to my request within minutes, they went out of their way to go through my site then helped me set everything up correctly. I am extremely satisfied with the service I received!
I purchased the pro version of this plugin, but it didn't have the main feature that I needed. When I contacted the developer, initially requesting a refund, he added the feature I needed into the plugin. Which, was a much better solution than just a refund. I was very happy with the resolution and the plugin is working great for me. Note — This plugin supports custom post types.
Your email address will not be published. Different Menus in Different Pages This is the perfect way to achieve custom menu for any post, page, custom post type or even for posts under a specific category. How to use this plugin On installing and activating the plugin, you need to go to plugin settings and assign the menu that you want to get working with the plugin and also specify post types with which you want to integrate this menu plugin.
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