Page vs Post
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I don’t really expect to find an “answer” to my “question”, more or less wanted to see if anyone could feel my pain or had any advice OR can even understand what the hell I’m trying to get at : )
After a little bit of playing with wordpress I basically got the idea of how I can and can’t use a page/post. I’m using my blog space to function more like a website, rather than a blog, therefore have found it more useful to have most of the site operating off of pages rather than posts. I have only one post that acts as the “homepage” of the site. I then use the pages widget to allow people to head to what category they want to go to from there..they are then sent off to different pages.
Here’s my qualm, you can add tags to posts, but not to pages. I don’t see why that needs to be so. Second, You only appear to be an active user if you post posts frequently. I often “update” my blog by editing/adding to existing pages (categories in my case), but online appear to be a very inactive blog.
The problem comes with wanting the site to be more visible on search engines, even wordpress’s. I can only add tags to the one post that I have, but oh well, I used a lot of tags to cover the basics of what the site is about…so I thought I could live with that. BUT Since this post is used as the “homepage” and rarely changes, if someone looks up one of the tag words in the wordpress search engine my page will come up but you have to go through MANY pages to get to it because it technically hasn’t been updated in 4 months (since the tag search engine lists in chronological order of most recently posted blog).
I guess what I want to say in the end is that I wish how many posts you post wasn’t the only way to be “judged” as an active blogger.
PS..If you enjoy free underground music from a broad range of genres..come have a look…maybe you’d even like to contribute…sorry for the cheap plug, but like I said above I’m having trouble getting the site around due to looking so “inactive”
thanks all
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It sounds as if some your frustration, especially with regard to wanting to tag pages, is caused by trying to force a blog to act like a website. Certainly they’re similar, but they are different. Perhaps rethinking the way your blog is organized might help?
BTW, there is a place here to promote your blog:
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I think you hit the nail on the head! I was just thinking that too. After I finished writing it I thought…wait…this IS made for blogging after all, what should I expect!?
I’ve been living in denial…it IS a blog…not a website.
THANKS
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> you can add tags to posts, but not to pages. I don’t see why that needs to be so.
just because some of the devs decided so. no particular articulated technical reason I know insofar.
> You only appear to be an active user if you post posts frequently.
it’s supposed that mainstream crowd is always after “stream of the fresh stuff” respectfully.
a blog (i.e. web-log) is essentially a web-site. with some bells’n’whistles, of course, but still a web site.
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Oh my goodness! These are such good points. I hadn’t actually discovered what a benefit pages were until after 9 months of frequent blogging on 5 sites! For me, it was good because my sites are traffic dependent because that’s my mission: to get “finger” traffic. So, now I have to point them in my posts to the pages. Maybe, you can write a short blub of 50 words once a week and point them to your pages? Maybe you could do twenty five words, or even five “catchy words” , but make sure you’ve got a lot of words or phrases that will bring them to your site and ultimately to review your pages. Just a thought.
P.S. I like to call myself the “word specialist…but I guess most other Bloggers are too…smile All the best
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This is a reference describing the differences between a post and a page for those reading this thread in the future http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/11/11/a-post-and-a-page/
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i am just starting my own blog and i know exactly what you are saying. i want to categorize my blog entries in a way different from the typical blog categories. i want to use my pages as my means of categorizing my blogs.
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I also know exactly what you are saying and that what you want isn’t possible with a wordpress.com blog.
(1) A blog has only one dynamic page (usually the front page but this can be changed) which can automatically update with each new post you make placing the most recent at the top.
(2) None of the other pages you create -> Write -> Page can be made into dynamic automatically updating pages on a wordpress.com blog: they are static. Static pages sit oustide the structure of the blog and the only way information can be placed on them is by editing.
(3) You cannot assign “categories” to pages.
(4) Pages do not get the same search engine attention and Google juice as posts do.
What you want is possible only if you hire a web host, download a free blog template from http://wordpress.org and hack it to suit.
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