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WordPress All-in-One For Dummies, 5th Edition
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WordPress All-in-One For Dummies, 5th Edition

by Lisa Sabin-Wilson
February 2024
Beginner content levelBeginner
608 pages
14h 45m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 3

Creating a Static Page

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Differentiating between posts and pages

Bullet Creating a new static page on your website

Bullet Adding a blog to your site

In Book 3, Chapter 5, I discuss the different ways that content gets archived by WordPress, and in Book 3, Chapter 1, I give you a brief introduction to the concept of pages and where to find them on the WordPress Dashboard.

This chapter takes you through the full concept of pages in WordPress, including how to write and publish them, and how you can add a blog to your website. We start by fully explaining the difference between posts and pages in WordPress so that you know which to publish for different situations.

Understanding the Difference between Pages and Posts

Pages, in WordPress, are different from posts because they don’t get archived the way your posts do. Pages aren’t categorized or tagged, they don’t appear in your listing of recent posts or in date archives, and they aren’t syndicated in the RSS feeds available on your site — because content within pages generally never, or very rarely, changes. (Book 3, Chapter 5 gives you all the details on how the WordPress archives work.)

Use pages for static or stand-alone ...

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