Need some wordpress advice please

[gjd6599]

I am using a template for wordpress, 1024px, that I just noticed does something I don't like. When I put a post, it puts it in the categories section, which is normal, but when I click on that category I get only a few lines of the post showing, and in the browser is shows mydomainname.com/categories/page-title

Then if I click on the page title, that shows with the few lines of my post, it will then show the whole article, and mydomainname/page-title, which is what I wish it did in the first place.

Is this normal, and is there a way to correct it. I have one page set as a static home page. Everything else will be post's.

I definitely don't think I want this, because I don't think people will know what they are supposed to do, or won't want to bother.

I never noticed this because I set up about a dozen sites in the last two weeks, with just a home page, as a page. I only noticed this today when I was starting to add content to these sites.

I would like to stick with this template because it is clean and simple, and because I don't feel like redoing a dozen sites, but if there isn't a way to fix this, I guess I will have to.

Are posts that much more seo friendly than pages for blogs?

Thanks Glenn

[VegasGreg]

You can adjust your WP settings to alter what you have.

First you will need to go into your Theme Editor section and look for the page template that is used on your theme for the categories. Inside you will see something like:

<?php the_excerpt(__('Read more'));?>

.

Change that to:

<?php the_content(__('Read more'));?>

and you will see the entire post on that page instead of just the small blurb.

For the mydomainname.com/categories/page-title, you can go into your Permalinks settings and change the Category Base to something other than "categories", maybe "topics" or "articles"?

[AceHazel]

Wow, I am having the same problem too. Thanks for the advice. I'll take note of that.