WP..Page vs Post vs Category

It depends what you want to do with your site. If you are going to blog then you should use posts and assign your posts to a relevant category. This is not only easier for your visitors to find relevant info on your site but is also good seo.

For example: say you have a site on internet marketing that you are using as a blog. You might want to have a category for Adsense, a category for Product Reviews, a category on PPC etc. When you write a post that is on for example a PPC guide you could assign that post to the categories you set up for both Product Reviews and PPC.

Pages live outside the blog structure that means they don't cycle through the front of your blog. Generally you would use pages for contact form, privacy etc. But you might want to just set up your site as pages - but you cannot assign categories, they generally do not show up in rss feeds and they don't cycle through.

If, for example you just had a site that is a sales page, a download page and a contact form you would just use pages.

Hope that helps somewhat but first of all you need to decide what the purpose of your site is. Tell us that and we can probably offer you more specific advice.

All the best
Leanne

With that amount of pages of content I would seriously consider doing Posts rather than pages. You can assign the different pieces of content to different categories within your site making it easier for visitors to find relevant content. If you don't like the look of posts with the date, author etc you can just comment that out of your theme or delete it and uncheck the comments box. You can add some pages for your contact form, privacy statement etc. If there is a piece of content that you always want on the front of your site you can assign that page or post to the front by going to settings/reading - static front page.

Leanne

I agree. We create categories for topics... A good example of this is wgfaradio.com

When we have new news, we use BlogDesk.org software to choose the news category and it goes to the top of the list. Same with sports, morning show content, etc.

For items with static content such as a contact page we'll use the pages function but the posts will give you better "Google Juice". You can customize the theme so that it doesn't have the date published etc... that way it doesn't look outdated if you wish.

The content that is important for my visitors I put on pages.
That way I can have the pages load in a widget at the top right of my blog (relevancy) the seo advantage is a plus factor.
ie imagine
blue widget
white widget
red widget
Showing as a link to your pages where the surfer expects to see it on the top right off your blog.
If your widget is only showing the last 15 posts then this great (monitised content) would be pushed off.
This works for me very very well.
Thou most of my blogs dont have 100`s of posts.
Cheers
Andrew