all about wordpress posts and pages wordcamp 2013

ALL ABOUT POSTS AND PAGES SECRETS OF A

CONTENT MANAGEMENT

WEBSITE

Judi Knight New Tricks

HI!

I’M JUDI

I DESIGN WEBSITES

WordPress Web Design & Social Media Marketing

“It’s never too late!”

I HATED MY OLD STATIC SITE

HOW TO MANAGE CONTENT?

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My Old Website

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My Old Website

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PAGES AND POSTS ORGANIZE CONTENT

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Database

CONTENT MANAGEMENT

Pages or Posts

PAGES VS POSTS

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• Pages: Static Content About, Contact, Services • Posts: Content that gets new entries or regularly updated and that can be Categorized

PAGES

• Pages are for static information. An About page is a classic example of a static page.

• Pages are not listed by date.

• Pages do not use tags or categories.

• Pages can be hierarchical.

The URL for a page looks like this: http://blogname /page-title/

POSTS• Posts can be assigned to categories. • Use Posts when you will have multiples of a type of

entry. • Posts appear on the site in reverse chronological

order. • Posts can be on the home page in a blog-style site.• The blog page may be on another page on the site. • You can make a sticky posts, those will appear before

the other posts.• Posts can be found in the Category Archives.• Posts are also displayed in the RSS feed of the blog. • You can control how many posts are displayed on a

page of posts.

The URL for a post is published like this: http://blogname.com/post-title/

BLOG POSTS

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Articles on your topicsTips and TutorialsBooks you recommendRecipesReal Estate ListingsLatest NewsEventsWorkshops

CUSTOM POST TYPES

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When you have types of entries with specific data fields to be collected and displayed consistently across posts you may need Custom Post Types.

Example: http://smallhouseguide.com

HOW TO ADD/EDIT PAGES

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• Permalinks• WYSIWYG• Visual View• Text View• Save Draft• Preview• Publish• Screen Options• Restore• Page Attributes

HOW TO ADD/EDIT POSTS

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• Permalinks• WYSIWYG• Visual View• Text View• Save Draft• Preview• Publish• Post Formats• Categories• Tags• Featured Image• Screen Options• Restore• Page Attributes