Should i use pages or categories in wordpress

Same with the Earrings page, a photo gallery with description, price and Paypal button. Any idea how to accomplish this with the core WP 3. Thanks… Judy. Each of those products needs to be created somehow. Ideally one that will let you enter each product as a unique item.

Even with a small number of products manual coding is no fun. Kirk, a quick question: are the posts you showed in your examples found in the Blog tab in your menu? Hi Linda, Yes, one of the lists of posts is on the Blog page listed on the top menu.

I moved posts to that page using the Reading Settings more information in the Reading Settings lesson. I also show a list of posts on an archive page. WordPress creates those archive pages automatically for every category and tag you create. I am planning on converting a static html site with over pages. The main topic is HIstory and Wars to Wordpress.

I do not want new names for all of my pages , but I wonder if I should make each new page into a Post or into a Page in WP. I like the idea of Categories and Tags to connect all of my content for example, individual categories on American Wars, British Wars, etc.

So the basic question is: Is there any inherent disadvantage for putting my content into Post format, or Page format? Another thing I like about Posts is the Ping updates when posting, and the rss feed for publicizing my content. For pages I would definitely use Posts. Remember, pages are organized in relation to themselves child pages , while posts use categories and tags. In practice, that makes posts much easier to manage in large quantities.

Then you can either fix the broken link by adjusting your page slug or creating a custom redirect for any problem posts or pages.

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Share on twitter Twitter. Thank you very much for this plagin! But i was not able to assign it correctly. I ve got a category page called freebooks, but the content of the page won't appear in that page. Could you guys help me about this?

I do not get this slug thing. Thank you! Big thanks to Sandeep, The plugin works well. I have pages domain. My question is will the new URL interfere with existing links or not? Please do fix. They help organize your content for both visitors who read it and web developers who create it. Unfortunately, WordPress only provides built-in support for both of these taxonomies for posts. Thus, you are going to need to get creative for your pages.

Luckily, WordPress is home to thousands of plugins and they can solve this issue for you. Making your content easy to organize and sort helps everybody and there is no reason not to do so. Today, I will demonstrate how to use categories and tags for pages in WordPress by using the x plugin.

The Add Category to Pages plugin will do exactly what you want it to do. This also adds the option to filter your pages based on the category, which will make it easy to find specific content. Note: If you only have a few pages, adding this feature is unnecessary.

Since adding a lot of plugins can slow down your website, it is best to only add what you need. Although, speed should not be an issue with proper web hosting.

Search for Add Category to Pages in the available search box. This will pull up additional plugins that you may find helpful. This plugin works upon activation and there are no settings to change. And if you are familiar with how categories and tags work for posts, you already know how to do it for pages, since it is exactly the same.

On the left-hand admin panel click on Pages. Normally, you would only see the All Pages and Add New options.

However, because you have installed this plugin, you will now see Categories and Tag options. Try this. So your menu items go to categories, not pages. We organize posts by assigning categories to them, and dynamic category pages automatically created by the software when we publish posts are not the same as static Pages that we bloggers create.

Please read this first Post vs. Only the dynamic pages like Archives, Categories and Tags created by the software when we publish a post will update automatically update with new posts.

By default the front page of the blog is the Page that displays all posts in your blog.