WordPress pages (12 posts)

Topic tags: Wordpress
  • Why do you create new pages? Is it for different topics? I have a variety of subjects I’ve posted through the year.

  • @deairby I have the following pages on my site.

    • About Page – Covers what the blog is about and who I am as the author.
    • Contact Page – Standard contact form for any purpose.
    • Hire Me Page – Tells visitors what services I have to offer.
    • Guest Post Page – Tells potential guest bloggers what I look for in guest posts.
    • Archives – This page uses a few different plugins / WordPress codes to pull in the latest posts, categories (topic & date based), and tags.
    • Topic Pages – These pages are a summary of the different topics I write about.  Since I write on a variety of blogs, I use these pages (instead of the typical Categories archive pages) to highlight my latest posts on those topics across multiple sites.  You can see social media as an example.
    I think of pages.  Pages are more for content that you always want available that you can change as often as necessary (about, contact, hire me, etc.). Pages can also highlight your pillar content – like that one page you would direct people to if they wanted to see your posts about the main topic / topics you write about (similar to my social media page).  

    I hope this helps!

  • @kristi-hines thanks, it helps some, I think I just have to spend more time with it. Right now I am just adding new posts and they are (I guess) all on the same page because I’m not directing them to any other page. Can a wordpress site replace a website?

  • @deairby Ok, I just realized you were on WordPress.com. If you wanted to someone to see a specific page first when they came to your domain, you could go to your Settings > Reading and then set a static front page.  You can do the same if you have your own domain with WordPress installed on it – just create one page to be the homepage of the website and the blog would be a menu item.  

    My husband does this with his photography site - http://jasonhines.net/.  It’s a static front page with the blog linked in the menu just like another page on the website.  

  • @kristi-hines Kristi and all, what do you think of your blog posting as the home page on your site instead of a static page as your home page? My site is set up with my blog as home pg. Are there stats on what is more effective?

  • Great info and questions.  I am in the process deciding on pages and content to add to wordpress.  Thank you all for the thoughts and ideas.

  • @katiecavanaugh I don’t know about stats, but my impression of a site usually boils down to this. If there is a static page as the home page, the site is probably more business oriented.  If the posts are on the home page, the site still could be a business, but the content is what they want to focus on the most.  

  • @kristi-hines with wordpress can I move previous posts to page that I set up now?

  • @deairby Do you mean taking a post content and turning it into a page?  You can.  :)

  • @kristi-hines yes, I think that’s what I mean…I have six weeks of my trip around the world, a daily post, that I would like to move to its own page: Travel. The current series should go on a page 40 Days of Soup.

  • @deairby I love how you’ve set up your blog. Each page is actually a different blog category. Brilliant!

  • thanks for the compliment, Amy, if I did something brilliant, it was by accident :)  @amyhallbiz


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