Pages, posts and home page

Sunday, April 26th, 2009 at 7:46 am

Pages, posts and home page often create confusion with WordPress users. Hopefully this will clarify the differences and the options.

What each does

Pages are usually used for things like an about page, contact form or other specific static type content. On quite a few themes (like this one) each page creates a menu item and often have buttons in the header.

On this blog I use them for an about page, two audios from teleseminars and a survey form for people to always have access to these easily.

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You can also list the pages in the sidebar if your theme does not have buttons or a menu for pages built into the theme.

Posts will show on your main page in date order with newest posts first with the default settings.

You can edit the home page and the number of posts that show. The default setting is 10 posts. You can also set a specific post or page to show as the home page. You need to go to settings – reading.

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If you want a custom page for your home page then click the radio button for a static page and use the drop down for either the page or post that you want to show permanently.

You can change the number of posts right below there. In both cases you need to update once you have made your selections.

As always your questions and comments are welcomed.

Mike Paetzold