Oracle of ONE1

I have noticed that many novice WordPress users try to build their site using Pages. This fights the WordPress system. These users are not using WordPress as a blogging platform but as an entry-level Content Management System. Now I know we use words such as ‘view a web page’ but page here has a different meaning.

One thing I push, is that 99% of the site’s content should be in posts. Write content to posts. They are much more flexible and easier for a developer to work with.

Pages have their place on a site but are limited to non-hierarchical, never-changing, organizational metadata (information about data). So what goes on a page? About, contact, history, jurisdiction, terms of use, privacy statements, and a sitemap. All the boring stuff.

Posts, on the other hand, can belong to multiple categories and have unlimited tags. Categories and tags automatically create the navigational structure of the site. The power of going with the flow is that most of the structure is done for you instead of needing to be created by you.