How to avoid pages showing in home page as posts?

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    pingala · Member ·

    Hi,

    I’ve spending a great deal of time to setup my personal blog, I’m using the latest stable release of WordPress and everything seems to be working just fine.

    Now I have a little problem I can’t get my head around it.

    Every time I create a static page (ie: About, contact, etc.) it gets added to the latest posts list in the home page resulting in very bad result… Is there a way to avoid this behaviour, perhaps tweaking into the theme php code or is there a setting somewhere I’ve missed ?

    Thanks for your help.

    Cheers
    T,

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    timethief · Member ·

    I believe that you need to start by comprehending exactly what the differences are between static Pages and Posts. There is more to be considered when choosing to have a Page based structure rather than a post based structure.
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

    Exclude – If you would like to keep certain pages from being listed in the widget, you can enter the Page IDs (separated by commas). To find the Page ID, go to Pages->Edit and hover over the title of the page. The status bar of your browser will display a URL with a numeric ID at the end. This is the page ID. http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/pages-widget/

    Static Pages sit outside the blog structure. Static pages cannot have Categories and Tags assigned to them. Pages do not appear in our RSS feeds. Most Pages do not have date stamps in their URLs. They have very little “google juice” Other bloggers rarely if ever backlink to static Pages in their published posts. Consequently, Page structured blogs have a very difficult time:
    1. securing traffic;
    2. securing comments;
    3. securing backlinks;
    4. achieving authority in their niche;
    5. achieving Google PageRank.

    Posts can have Categories and Tags assigned to them. They do appear in our RSS feeds when published, edited, updated and when comments to them are approved and posted. Pages do have date stamps in their URLs. They have lots of “Google juice”. Other bloggers do backlink to Posts in their own published posts. Consequently, Post structured blogs have much better opportunities to:
    1. secure traffic;
    2. secure comments;
    3. securing backlinks;
    4. achieve authority in their niche;
    5. achieve Google PageRank.

    Posts are only displayed on one running page and that’s usually the front page of the blog but it can be changes to another static page here > Settings > Reading.

    Other bloggers become aware of Posts via search engine results, RSS feeds, and via social media “update tweets” and social network updating. They also “pass the news along” that a new posts has been published. When bloggers publish posts on related topics they link to the most relevant and authoritative posts found in the most authoritative blogs in their own niche. This is called backlinking and the number of backlinks a blog earns is one of the factors in the algorithm that determines a blog’s Google PageRank.

    You can create as many static Pages and sub-pages as you like but the vast and overwhelming amount of Google juice goes to Posts because that’s the way blogs are designed and how they function. The most Google juice of all goes to the Front page of a blog, because blogs are structured in reverse chronological order, and search engines are programmed to locate fresh dynamic content on the front page.

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    panaghiotisadam · Member ·

    @pingala: You’re in the wrong forum.

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    timethief · Member ·

    @Panos
    Top ‘O the day to thee. :)

    I did see this:

    I’m using the latest stable release of WordPress and everything seems to be working just fine.

    But this is the blog linked to her username http://chefit.wordpress.com/ so I provided the whole nine yards. And what I posted is applicable to both wordpress.COM blogs and to wordpress.ORG installs.

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    pingala · Member ·

    @All

    my bad, apologize. I thought I was posting on the actual WordPress development forum not the hosting platform. I have my own server where I’ve installed wordpress.

    Sorry for the confusion. I will post again there.

    btw, i know the difference between pages and posts but there is something bad going on in my theme (the control is_page() on the current query is failing therefore resulting in considering everything as a post)

    Thanks once again.

  • Unknown's avatar
    timethief · Member ·

    @pingala
    Thanks for the clarity. We don’t provide support for those hosting wordpress.ORG installs on their own servers here. The correct forum for you to post to is here > http://wordpress.ORG/support/

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