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Publishing articles on WP... on pages or posts?

by Ian Jackson
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Hi

I am publishing daily articles to my WP site "posts" ... but should they be uploaded as posts or pages?

I have a static home page

Also, is there good plugin for customising fonts in sidebar widgets? Pref free, but don't mind a few $'s

Thanks
#articles #pages #posts #publishing
  • Profile picture of the author UnkwnUsr
    I would say most should be published as posts. If you have something that is particularly important or evergreen then publish it as a page. Blog posts generally receive less attention the older they get because of how the WP system works. Pages have more internal links most of the time and so it should be reserved for important topics.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ben Holmes
    It's confusing at first - Pages or Posts...

    But pages should be things like About Me, Contact Me, Earnings Disclaimer, Privacy Policy, etc... things that you'd see on any website.

    Posts are the unique content that your website offers.

    It wouldn't have anything to do with whether your home page is static or not. Pages don't get comments... posts do. Pages don't get tags & categories, posts do.


    I've never heard of a plugin that would target widgets for a different font - but I'm sure you can do it through CSS.
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    • Profile picture of the author Ian Jackson
      Originally Posted by Khadaji View Post

      It's confusing at first - Pages or Posts...

      But pages should be things like About Me, Contact Me, Earnings Disclaimer, Privacy Policy, etc... things that you'd see on any website.

      Posts are the unique content that your website offers.

      It wouldn't have anything to do with whether your home page is static or not. Pages don't get comments... posts do. Pages don't get tags & categories, posts do.

      I've never heard of a plugin that would target widgets for a different font - but I'm sure you can do it through CSS.
      "Pages don't get comments... "

      Pages do (can) get comments, as I have a comments facility on each of my pages, and received an email today to accept/reject one on my home page. Hmm... I may edit to disallow on pages anyway
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  • Profile picture of the author geolocal
    Definitely posts, especially if you want to categorize them -- pages can't be categorized, and are usually for stand alone type "evergreen" content.

    Sharon

    Originally Posted by Ian Jackson View Post

    Hi

    I am publishing daily articles to my WP site "posts" ... but should they be uploaded as posts or pages?

    I have a static home page

    Also, is there good plugin for customising fonts in sidebar widgets? Pref free, but don't mind a few $'s

    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author Anne Laidlaw
    To change font in your widgets you have to do it through css there s no plugin. IChange it in your .css file or if your theme has a custom css file change it in there.

    .widget .widget-title {
    font-size: 20px;
    font-weight: 500;
    letter-spacing: 0.1em;
    line-height: 22px;
    margin-bottom: 10px;
    font-family: "Verdana, Arial";
    }
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  • Profile picture of the author RobinInTexas
    If you are publishing "daily" you should probably be using posts.

    You can structure your site using pages and the menu system and create a structure for your blog kind of like a silo structure or any other structure you want. Posts will just be dumped chronologically into categories .
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    • Profile picture of the author savidge4
      Without questions you will want to place "Daily" material as posts. However, if you have a subject that you write about often, you may consider a Primary subject page. If you write over and over about red widgets, the page could be a brief over view of the history or special abilities etc of the red widget. What I try to do with my Primary Subject pages is place a link of any new articles there. I also link to it from ever page thatis on the subject "Red Widgets"

      My over all thinking on this structure, is that #1 most people want to read more on a subject. #2 Having pages like this tends to be worthy of people placing it in favorites. #3 It creates a better user experience, the viewer can hit this page and see any and all articles written on the subject.

      Any time that you can add in a feature in this case a page that increases overall usability of the information you have worked so hard to write, it simply is a good thing. It doesn't hurt your SEO efforts either!
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  • Profile picture of the author kpmedia
    This is no right answers -- it's ONLY a preference. What's better -- an apple or a banana?

    However, pages do not ping -- only posts do. So if you rely on pings, you need to either get a plugin to add this function, or stick to the posts.
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