Blogging – To page or to post?

So, you’ve got your blog up and running, and now it’s time to understand the difference between pages and posts.

In terms of your site’s navigation, Pages stay in the same place all the time. Some themes make the links to Pages more prominent than other themes. Pages do no go out as part of your RSS feed. Links to your Pages are on every page of your blog. So, the Pages feature is best used for permanent information and/or information that you want to always be readily accessible.

Posts are typically displayed in the order of newest first. As you add more posts, the older ones are moved off of the main page of your blog. After that, they have to be reached by a third-party search engine (Google, Yahoo, etc.), searching within the blog, or by clicking links to Archives or Categories. Assigning Posts to categories is a way of aggregating certain types of content within the blog, making similar information easier to find. Posts do go out as part of your RSS feed. Posts are better suited for current news and events.

One more thing to keep in mind is that with WordPress (and presumably other blogs as well) you can choose whether the main page of your blog shows the most recent posts or one of your pages.

That’s about it!

This article copyright © John Nasta 2009 – All Rights Reserved

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