Blog post a subpage
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Hi there,
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The WordPress software distinguishes between two basic types of content – static and dynamic.
Pages are static content – you use pages for “permanent” content on your site, that must always be available. Pages don’t appear in your site’s feed to subscribers, but are typically added to a site menu so visitors can easily find the information they contain. A page typically has a permalink structured as
SiteURL/page-title.A sub-page (more commonly called a child page in WordPress), is a page that’s set as under another page in the site’s page hierarchy. A sub-page will have a permalink structure of
SiteURL/parent-page-title/sub-page-title. In the menu your sub-page would appear in a drop-down menu under the parent page’s main menu item. Some themes will also show a page breadcrumb at the top indicating the hierarchical structure the current page is part of, with links to each level in the hierarchy, e.g.Site Name > Parent page name > Child page nameBlog posts are dynamic content – they’re used for content that has an expiration date, like new articles that are only relevant for a certain time. They appear in a news feed on the site that always lists the most recent (and by implication most relevant) content first. On WordPress.com sites the permalink structure for posts always include the publication date of the post, i.e.
SiteURL/year/month/day/post-title.In the open source version of WordPress, and on our Business Plan on WordPress.com, you have the option to change this permalink structure to not include the date if you prefer, though that doesn’t change how WordPress treats the content itself.
I hope this answers your question, but let me know if you have any more. You might also find this useful:
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P.S. in general internet slang, both posts and pages are commonly referred to as “pages” on your site, but the distinction does matter outside of WordPress – search engines like Google give preference to dynamic content tied to a specific date, i.e. posts, over pages, as search engines have a strong bias for showing relevant (i.e. recent) content in search results, even if they use the term “page” to refer to either type of content.
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