Posts vs Pages

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Is there really any purpose for using posts over pages on your site? I've heard different opinions of each, but I find it easier to use pages because I want a static front page for my site and I can link people through the site to my other pages.
 


I use WP type CMS less and less these days but do not consider post and pages to be mutually exclusive. It is possible to have a static front page and perhaps more easily keep the content fresh by using posts. I may be missing your point but you should be able to link to any other page from a post as you would a page. The main navigation and blog roll links can still show regardless.
 
Thanks for the response. I ended up creating a static page for the front and then made posts for the supporting pages.
 
Posts can have tags is what I noticed.
I created a lot of tags and if you have a lot of common "tags" you can back link the "domain.com/tag" to something relevant... Another way of organization i guess?

Kind of a newb here too
 
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I think a blog-type layout is easier for a lot of people to navigate and seems more relatable and accessible. You can sticky important info using this method.
 
Aren't pages with posts considered dynamic pages? I've stayed away from this format because Google shows a preference toward static pages. In their Webmaster Guidelines section, they talk about how some search engines don't crawl dynamic pages which would be any URL that contains a question mark.
 
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Wordpress Blog Posts vs. Pages?

So I have the standard setup on the wordpress blog. So if I create separate pages can I then post blogs within those pages that will automatically appear on my homepage arranged by date?

So basically I would have all of my blogs on the front page with different pages in which each blog would be found according to its category.

Any help is greatly appreciated!



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For the most part, there's very little difference. Wordpress does integrate pages with menus out of the box. Most themes also don't put post dates on pages. This seems to encourage using pages for static information like "Privacy Policy" and "Contact Us" where having them as a menu item is desirable.
 
At the very least, using posts and pages separately allows you to differentiate the two, so you can turn comments off on pages, and keep them on on posts. For what it's worth, I usually do the standard About, Contact, Privacy, maybe Home, etc as pages, and leave posts for ongoing stuff. If you familiarize yourself with the built in WP menus, they're pretty cool for mixing up pages, categories, posts, as needed.
 
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