Which do you believe & why? Wordpress posts or pages?
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I hear a lot of conflicting opinions regarding when to use pages over posts.
If you were using wordpress mainly as a static site and less of a blog would you use pages over posts?
Let's say it is a yacht review site. Would you set up most of the content (boat review pages) as pages or posts?
I hear some say in that case you would want to use mostly pages and use posts for news related items.
Then there are others that suggest only making the few (contact, about, privacy, terms) as pages and everything else created as posts organized into categories.
Any thoughts?
Also, is there a tool to find out if a website that is not yours is using a page or a post?
Thanks
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Dan totally nailed this here. In essence, use pages for static content and posts for news, blogs etc. If your site is mostly static, use pages.
If you are coming at this from a purely 'SEO benefit' perspective then you are not going to get an SEO bump from forcing static content into posts or vice versa.
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Hi
The difference to understand about pages vs posts has to do with how they are organized
- Pages are organized by nesting (into folders or levels)
- Posts are organized by categories, tags, date, authors, etc.
or another way to think of it...
- Pages are for when you want the content to be organized in a traditional format; root/sub-1/sub-2/ etc. which is more or less static or linear
- Posts are for when you want content to be organized in a dynamic format; in other words, you could access the same post multiple ways; through a tag, a category, a date, or the 'blog' page.
So, use pages when you have more or less static pages, organized in a folder type format like described above. Use posts anytime you have content that you want organized dynamically; ie blogs, news, product catalogs.
Some of the themes you can get make this more confusing than it needs to be too.
Hope it helps!
-Dan
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If they are timeless, i'd say go for pages. I'm not aware of any tools that show this..posts usually have a date, whereas pages don't, but it's not 100% as it depends on the template.
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