Post vs page

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  ajourneythroughthesenses · Member · Jan 16, 2016 at 9:09 pm

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  IM BUILDING MYBWORD PRESS FROM THE MAP I MADE. ITS FOR AN EBOOK THE HOME PAGE WILL HAVE A MENUE WITH STATIC PAGES . EACH STAIC PAGE HAS A MENU WITH NEW STAIC PAGES…

  IM CONFUSED ON A FEW THINGS

  1. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN POST AND PAGE THE? IM NEW TO THIS AND THE HELP ON FORUM DIDNT DO MUCH

  2. WHAT IS POST PAGES PURPOSE TO A STATIC PAGE

  THANK U

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  timethief · Member · Jan 16, 2016 at 9:14 pm

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  Hi there,

  I will help you but first please make a keyboard change. You are typing in all capital letters and it makes text so hard to read. It’s also considered to be the rude online equivalent of SHOUTING! or YELLING! into someone’s face?

  Disable your cap locks key, please. I am visually challenged and I don’t need any additional challenges.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 16, 2016 at 9:16 pm

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  All support docs are at http://support.wordpress.com
  type in post vs page and click search https://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=post+vs+page
  Results https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

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  timethief · Member · Jan 16, 2016 at 9:17 pm

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  By default the front page of your blog displays all published posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top. That is for the convenience of your returning visitors, who come to read your latest post, and who are not likely to be happy with being compelled to click through the same static page with the same blah, blah, blah on it every time they visit the blog looking for the latest post.

  There must be a page for all posts published in the blog to display on. However, if you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, then you can create a static front page called for example “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for posts.

  To do that create two pages first http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/

  After you do that you go to > Settings > Reading and make the designation change and click “save changes”.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/

  A static page (select below)
  Front page:
  Posts page:

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  timethief · Member · Jan 16, 2016 at 9:20 pm

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  Your detailed theme description page with set up instructions is at https://wordpress.com/themes/responsive/ and it the live demo site is here https://responsivedemo.wordpress.com/

  re: the front page error message found on every new .wordpress.com blog

  There is nothing wrong with your blog.

  By default the front page of the blog is the only page that will display all published posts on it. As soon as you publish a post not a page the error message will be gone. http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  For creating a post see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/#publish-a-new-post
  For creating a page see here
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/#create-a-new-page

  For editing see:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/

  On the bottom of your Admin page you will find a link to the step by step Learn WordPress.com blogging Tutorial prepared by Staff. http://learn.wordpress.com/

  See also the “Video Quick Start” tutorial http://en.support.wordpress.com/video-quick-start/

  The support documentation is all found at the Support link http://en.support.wordpress.com which is also on the bottom of your Admin page.

  A blog is a website. The difference between blog and website is simply structure and semantics.

  A blog is a post based website designed for interactive communication. As the posts are frequently updated and appear on the front page of the site it’s very attractive to search engines.

  What most people call a website is merely a page based site that functions as a one-way noticeboard. As the structure is page based and as pages are for static content that rarely changes, and as pages do not have RSS feeds, and as others do not backlink to pages, it is not as attractive to search engines as a post based blog structured site is.

  Any WordPress blog can be restructured from being post based to being page based – no upgrade required. For greater clarity read > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/

  See also:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/five-step-blog-setup/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/five-step-website-setup/
  and my post at https://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2013/07/25/create-a-wordpress-website-step-by-step/