Want to show newest pages, not posts
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hi there, I know alot of people have issues with showing which post they’ve just written but I would like to be able to show my newest page. By default all of my enteries are written on seperate pages.
On my site all my pages are listed in order but I’d like to have a section that states “this is the newest page” or osmething like that, is this possible?
Thank you,
Syn
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As far as I know you can’t do that on WordPress.com. You’d have to do it manually. I suppose you could create a post introducing the latest page with a link to it, but that would be a very roundabout way to do it.
But why would you want to do it this way rather than as posts?
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Using pages for your main content has drawbacks you need to be aware of:
1. Pages will show up lower in search engine results because search engines place lower emphasis on pages. Pages are meant for static content. For some types of sites, this may actually be the best way of presenting the material though.
2. When you publish a post, wordpress automatically “pings” all the major search engines to let them know you have published a new post so that they can index it. When you publish a page, wordpress does NOT “ping” the search engines. You will have to ping manually at a service such as pingomatic.com.
3. Only posts show up on an RSS feed, pages do not. That means people cannot subscribe to your blog so that they are alerted when you add something new. It also means you cannot allow email subscriptions because those trigger off the RSS feed.
4. You can assign categories and tags to posts to help the search engines properly place you in search results. Pages cannot have tags or categories as they sit outside the blog structure.
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