editing layout of posts

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  kleinkrantz · Member · Sep 17, 2009 at 11:02 am

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  Hi…completely new to all this! The first thing i did was create 2 new posts, thereafter adding pages. The “posts” serve as my “home” page and I was wondering if there is any way I could remove the following bits n bobs off this page…”posted by…date….posted in uncategorized…comments off” …Just so that it looks more ” “clean” and websitey…??

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Sep 17, 2009 at 11:57 am

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  What you must do is use a page, not posts, for your main page. You can set it as your front in Settings >Reading.

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  kleinkrantz · Member · Sep 17, 2009 at 1:07 pm

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  ah cool…thx so much!

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 17, 2009 at 2:05 pm

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  Several things to keep in mind about using pages over posts for content:

  1. Pages will show up lower in search engine results because search engines place lower emphasis on pages. Pages are meant for static content. For some types of sites, this may actually be the best way of presenting the material though.

  2. When you publish a post, wordpress automatically “pings” all the major search engines to let them know you have published a new post so that they can index it. When you publish a page, wordpress does NOT “ping” the search engines. You will have to ping manually at a service such as pingomatic.com.

  3. Only posts show up on an RSS feed, pages do not. That means people cannot subscribe to your blog so that they are alerted when you add something new.

  4. You can assign categories and tags to posts to help the search engines properly place you in search results. Pages cannot have tags or categories as they sit outside the blog structure.