Some themes let you tag pages?
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Hello, I’ve been building up static pages on my site, and have just hit a brick wall, learning that I can’t tag them. I’m using Dyad.
I heard some themes do let you tag pages. Gateway has been mentioned. Are there others?I’m wary of customizing my whole site to try it out and then struggling to get back my current design if it doesn’t work. (Any experiences with theme switching and reverting would be gratefully received!)
Thank you for your help.
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Hi there! If you let me know what you’re trying to accomplish I’ll be glad to help.
Themes that allow you to tag pages generally only do so in order to then display those tagged pages in a slider, like Sketch does, for example. What are you trying to do?
I’m wary of customizing my whole site to try it out and then struggling to get back my current design if it doesn’t work.
I think best way to safely experiment with a theme in depth is to set up a test site, and play around to your heart’s content. :)
(Any experiences with theme switching and reverting would be gratefully received!)
Here are a couple of things to watch out for when switching themes:
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Thanks Kathryn!
It’s all about juice. Basically I’m setting up a site with a lot of pages. I chose to use pages because of the way it seemed possible to organise / present them. I haven’t gone live yet, but have discovered as I build up to that about the tag issue. These pages are the main content of the site. I do plan to have posts later, but I’d imagined those as less fundamental to the core of the site.
So how can I get juice? Do I have to go for a slideshow theme? A slug isn’t going to do enough. Or do I have to convert all the pages to posts? (Or recreate them as posts?)
Thanks for your advice!
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I’m just fiddling with Sketch. I like the look much design than what I’ve been using, Dyad. Could you tell me the other themes that allow me to tag pages? Or tell me how to search for this capacity within the offerings?! Thank you.
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Can you explain more what you mean by “getting juice” and how that relates to being able to tag pages? Thanks!
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May I please enter this converstaion?
@londonmigrant
Our reality is that search engine “juice” flows to Posts, not to Pages.Regardless of themes, Posts can have Categories and Tags assigned to them. Unlike Pages which do not have RSS feeds, Posts do appear in our RSS feeds when published, edited, updated and when comments to them are approved and posted. Unlike Pages, Posts have date stamps in their URLs. Other bloggers do backlink to related Posts published by other bloggers in their own published posts. They do not tend to backlink to Pages published on other sites. The reason why is simple: Pages are for static and site specific content that is rarely updated. https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ The bottom line is that post structured sites have better opportunities to:
- secure traffic;
- secure comments;
- secure backlinks;
- secure social media shares
- achieve authority in the niche;
- achieve Google PageRank.
If you choose to create website structure see here for guidance https://en.support.wordpress.com/create-a-blog/
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Thanks for your input, timethief. :) I was assuming they meant “SEO link juice” but wanted to be sure.
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Geesh I see a typo above. I meant to type conversation. :(
I have experienced many new bloggers who are focused on creating a “professional website appearance”. Sadly, many create static front pages so return visitors are compelled to click through the same blah, blah, blah page to get to the posts page. What these new bloggers don’t get is that it is Posts, not Pages that visitors come to read, and peeving them off by making them do any extra clicking means they may not subscribe or of they are already subscribed, they may unscubscribe.
They don’t seem to understand is that a blog is a website and the differences between “blog” and “website” are structure and semantics. And, the choice we make for structuring our sites ought to be focused on the navigational convenience of the target audience.
A blog is a post based website designed for interactive communication and focused on securing return visitors, who will also promote our content by backlinking to it and promoting it in their own posts, and sharing it in social networks. As the posts are frequently updated and appear on the front page of a blog structured 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 anywhere being as attractive to search engines and those who use them as a post based blog structured site is.
The bottom line is that any WordPress blog can be restructured from being post based to being page based – no upgrade required. But to make a sensible choice one has to comprehend the differences between post based blog structure and page based website structure, as well as, the reality that search engine “juice” flows to Posts, not to Pages.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/
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/ -
Thanks very much for all this, which does clarify things. I’ve looked at alternative themes and also transforming my pages to posts, but it doesn’t fit with the nature of the site. Can I check my strategy with you @timethief?
My strategy was to combine pages and posts, because I don’t want a blog structure (with dates etc) for all the information. I’ll add a page on a monthly basis. And I’m starting with a static front page because I’m targeting a particular audience in the first stages. But I’ve got posts ready too, and I assume that releasing one of those each week – with tags – will make the site sufficiently dynamic. After a couple of posts I’m shifting to the dynamic front with a carousel.
With crosslinks from posts to pages, interested readers will become aware of them too.
I also planned to create a lot of external references to the pages – wikipedia etc.
From what I understand, google and facebook pick up the titles and incipits of pages, along with filenames of images, so these are also places to have words that can function like tags (in terms of getting traffic).
Does this sound reasonable? Thanks again.
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see below for more help on SEO stuff f- I belong to an organization and their site is all pages – just the way it is and will not be changed – one of the things that I got them to do was to keep adding new content even though the content is on the dreaded pages and to use some key words in the text – and guess what?? after a while they tell me the site now searches well – so all is not lost with pages – but visitors can subscribe to be notified of new posts – they can’t for pages – so having posts and the ability to subscribe (use the subscribe Widget) will help your traffic in the long run
Search Engines and Building Traffic
http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/seo-and-your-blog/https://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/
https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/how-to-get-more-traffic/The folks at WordPress.com have written an e-book about it! http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/01/31/grow-traffic-ebook/
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