Pages, blogs and Posts – confused
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I am trying to make my site rickparker.com setup properly before I push it out to my friends. I want to make mine look just like http://bikehikesafari.com/pacific-crest-trail/ but for now more simple. I want to make sure I am set up to be alerted to new followers and edit each post before I allow them to be published. I want those who follow me to list their name as a criteria to follow me. I want to make sure that my subpages that people may comment on are able to have a next and previous function at the bottom. I want functionality to block those who comment start or become obnoxious. I don’t want a continuous blog that rolls up and down for eternity, so I think that is pages I want to make.
My mission is that I am a long distance hiker, I want to update my daily activity (for 6 months) from my iPhone. Sometimes I won’t have cell service or wifi so I want to compose and when I get service, I’ll be able to push pages up at that time. The link http://bikehikesafari.com/pacific-crest-trail/ shows what I want to do. My site rickparker.com is kind of set (I think). Can you help. I think I am there. I just need a nudge. Thank you (email visible only to moderators and staff) 817-800-6119 talk or text.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I am struggling with pages vs. posts. When I should one. Help? Is there a paid for support that I can get in contact with?
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Here is a good starting point. This support document explains how to create your site:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/start/More detailed tutorials can be found here:
https://learn.wordpress.comPosts are entries that are published in reverse chronological order.
A page is static, meaning it only changes when you edit it.A more detailed description is here:
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Hey rickrparker
I use “pages” for my long term static content such as my about us page, contact us page, terms and conditions pages, faq pages, customer service pages etc. Pages that don’t change to much.
I use “posts” for my blog articles or news articles. These have attached with it publish dates, authorship, tagging options, categorization. So use these as your everyday posts about what your are doing.
In your example about the “bikehikesafari homepage” everything on top in the main top menu are pages. Everything in the body of the page are links to posts. So you can tell they are doing it right.
Hope that helps.
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Thanks for the response. So my Day 1 and Day 2 should be posts and the references to those are just static text with hyperlink to the Post page for each day, right?
And on the Post Pages, will I see “Previous” and “Next” (to transition from Day 1 to Day 2 to Day X. . . ) beneath my text and photos or will that automatically happen? Or, will I have to trigger a setting somewhere?
Thank you and the above did help.
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Yes the day 1 and day 2 etc. should be posts.
On your home page content area or on the right hand side panel you can put a “recent post widget” which list all of your recent posts. You can specify how many posts the widget should display.
The widget automatically creates the links to your posts so you don’t need to do it.
And yes, on each of your posts at the bottom there will be a Next and Previous post links (Note: depending on which template you are using. But most do have this built in.)
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