Jul 11
Tonight I learned the difference between a page and a post in WordPress, and man, did I ever get frazzled for awhile figuring it out.
A post shows up on your blog page with a date on it… a “page” does not. Instead, a page actually nests itself up top like it has more importance for some-odd reason. A page also will leave a navigation link (notice the top of this page how it lists the pages… Inspiration, SiteMap, etc).
Anyway, I’m just sharing this so that hopefully other newer-to-using-WP admins creating their site content won’t experience the same frustrations…
Have a super night (or day, depending where in the world you are located). :-)
July 12th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Thanks for that tip, I hope you include some more, as I’m getting acquainted with WP myself. It’s a great format for web pages since it’s evolved to the degree it has over the years.
Dawna
July 12th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Actually,
I do have yet another. When using the built-in editor, the
stubborn little buggar won’t let you insert line breaks to make more
space between paragraphs when desired. It just “magically
erases” them, so what I did was insert [ul] and closing [/ul] only using
the real html code brackets to make spaces and Voila! it
worked. :-)
You can see an example of that
by viewing the “Inspiration” page. I wanted more space
between the different pages than the stubborn little built-in WP editor
would allow by me hitting the enter key or trying to add a paragraph
and close paragraph or even BR tags.
Well here’s a
little addendum… you can also add a “space” paragraph (discovered
that accidentally, too) like so: [p] [/p] and
that creates a space between the paragraphs like I tried to do
originally. The funky “ ”
(without the quotes and WITH a semi-colon after
the letter p) is actually HTML code for a
space.
Be sure you substitute the real brackets < and >
for my [
and ]
ones when you create the code though. I just did
it this way here so you could actually SEE what it looks like.
HTH,
Admin