Pages Versus Posts, Which to Choose

Posted by Nile | Posted in WordPress | Posted on 07-08-2010 | 2 Comments

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So you have content, but you are not sure you want to go with pages or posts. Well, it really is not that difficult. A lot of people put together a site completely in posts without few pages. With WordPress 3.0, you can customize individual posts. You also have the ability to adjust your menu from your WordPress admin panel to whatever you like if you have the wp_nav_menu php call into the theme itself.

However, you have to ask yourself – do you want comments or not? What type of content are you putting up and how much of it?

If you like to put up mass quantities of items, for example, pixel images where you have a lot of images, you may want to use a page. Or you could release a few at a time in posts.

This is really something you have to decide on how you want to organize your site. If you make a page, you will have to announce the page somehow.

Navigation is a big part to most sites. It is often the source of a visitor’s problem if your site is confusing to go from one area to the next, and back again with ease.

I usually put posts for what I am going to talk about and pages for things I may only update every 2 to 3 months. How have you organized your site by using pages and posts in WordPress?