Organization of your blog is key to having a site that people will want to visit.  Nobody likes to go to a site they think finally has what they want and then they can never find the information they’re looking for, even if it’s on the site.  Using the Categories option in WordPress will greatly increase the organization of your site for your viewers, and for the search engine bots.  They love organization just as much as we do!

Creating new categories is extremely easy.  Here is where you can easily add some categories for your post:

This is located directly to the right of your text box in your Posts > Add New.  Here you can click + Add New Category if you wish to add a new category, or you can select one in which your post already fits into.

Another great feature of this is that you can add new categories under a parent category.  This means it is a category under a category.  This will help your site become super organized.  This is also very easy to do.  Click +Add New Category and type in you New Category Name and select the parent category you’d like it to be under and click ‘Add’.  Simply select that new category and you’re ready to go.

What is the difference between a page and a post in your wordpress blog?  Which one do you want for your blog?  The two are very similar but there are a few differences that will help you decide which one is right for you.

Posts appear in reverse chronological order.  The newest posts appear on top of the older posts so all the newest information is at the very front.  If your site is about the newest and latest news then you would most definitely post this type of information in a post.

A page tends to be more of a static (non-changing) informative article.  As you can see on our site we have a home page, latest updates page (which contain our posts), a contact page, and a privacy policy page.  These are put there to be permanent so they can be accessed at all times as they are very important.

So in reality you will not have to choose between the two at all, but put information that you want to always be seen in a page, and put information that will change frequently as you add new updates as posts.

There IS the possiblity that you can create an entire WordPress blog with pages, using parent categories to do this, but I wouldn’t recommend it.

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