I was asked a very good question this morning: What exactly are the WordPress Pages for anyway?
Well, while they may seem pointless to some people (and they very well may be depending on the topic of your website), they do serve a purpose.
The pages are there for those items on a blog which:
- Shouldn’t be an actual entry to the blog, but are still necessary on the website
- Content that should be easily accessible and not buried in the archives
From the WordPress Codex:
Pages, or WordPress Pages are like Posts, except they can do much more than Posts, and they live outside of the normal blog chronology. You can use Pages to organize and manage any amount of content.
A few good uses for WordPress pages are the ‘About‘, ‘Contact‘, and ‘Legal‘ pages. Each of these pages are essential to some blogs and shouldn’t be buried deep in the blog’s archives.
I’ve used pages for things like like an archive summary, glossary, link/resource pages and even a quiz. They help give a blog the feel and functionality of a “regular” website.
# November 16th, 2005
Great Teli and Heloc!
Sometimes I’ll use WP pages for sales letters of products I’m promoting.
# November 16th, 2005
I realize I am stumbling upon this post quite late (I just found this awesome blog). However, I thought I would add my two cents on Pages. However, being a new blogger, I am definitely not authoritative on this issue.
I am currently using a Page to provide a “home base” for a series I am writing. I decided this would help readers follow it easier, especially if they miss a post. You can check out the concept here: Series - Kill Your Mouse.
# April 24th, 2006
Hi Lawrence,
Welcome to the blog. Your 2 cents are always welcome here :).
And I really appreciate your sharing because using pages as a “series hub” is an excellent idea!
~ Teli
# April 25th, 2006
Howdy,
I can’t for the life of me understand how to use the Pages. I created a subpage but found that to be entirely useless since the viewer cannot access the subpage unless I insert it into the sidebar. Also, what Page Order, Page Slug, and Parent Page do?
I’m testing Wordpress’s features out before transferring my blog over to Wordpress, and I confess that understanding Wordpress is significantly different than Blogger Beta.
Is there a comprehensive site you know of that explains all this stuff?
Thanks,
Thomas
# October 15th, 2006
Hello Teli,
Although I’d like to add an About, Contact, and Privacy page. I would like to do it in a manner that does not create tabs at the top of the page next to the ‘Home’ tab. I’d just like to add a link in the footer pointing to the page, such as you have your Privacy, Disclaimer in the footer.
How do I go about doing that?
# November 14th, 2007