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WordPress 3.7 Complete: Third Edition

You're reading from   WordPress 3.7 Complete: Third Edition Nothing has simplified website production quite as effectively as WordPress, and this book makes it easier still to build a fully featured site of your own. Packed with screenshots and clear instructions, it covers everything you need for success.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782162407
Length 404 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing WordPress 2. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating Blog Content 4. Pages, Menus, Media Library, and More 5. Plugins and Widgets 6. Choosing and Installing Themes 7. Developing Your Own Theme 8. Feeds, Podcasting, and Offline Blogging 9. Developing Plugins and Widgets 10. Community Blogging 11. Creating a Non-blog Website Part One – The Basics 12. Creating a Non-blog Website Part Two – Community Websites and Custom Content Elements Index

Pages


At first glance, pages look very similar to posts. Both pages and posts have a title and a content area in which we can write extended text. However, pages are handled quite differently from posts. First of all, pages don't have categories, or tags. Moreover, posts belong to your blog, which are meant to be a part of an ongoing expanding section of your website, and are added regularly; pages, on the other hand, are more static and aren't generally expected to change that much.

In short, I would advise to treat pages as pieces of static content, and posts as series of articles published in a timely manner. In other words, pages are meant to hold content that is equally up-to-date no matter whenever it is read. Posts are often very time sensitive and present advice/news that's important today/now. For most blogs, posts are the pillar of their content and make up more than 90 percent of the site. Furthermore, posts appear in the RSS feed of a WordPress blog, while pages don't.

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