WordPress

What Are Pages

In WordPress, you can put content on your site as either a ‘Post’ or a ‘Page’. When you’re writing a regular blog entry, you will write a Post. Posts, in a default setup, appear in reverse chronological order on your blog’s home page.

In contrast, Pages are for non-chronological content: pages like About Us, or Contact Us pages. Pages live outside of the normal blog chronology and are often used to present timeless information about your company, information that is always relevant. 

Click on the ‘Pages’ tab to view all pages created. If you would like to create a new page, press the ‘Add New’ button in the top left of the screen.  In the ‘All Pages’ section, you will see the pages that are published and the ones in draft mode. Similar to Posts, you’ll also be able to see the following information for each page:

  • The Name of the Page
  • Author
  • Date created
  • Expiry date
  • If it’s shared across any other website
  • If the page is locked
  • SEO Score

Each page has 3 editing options:

  1. Edit, this will open the page in the native WordPress window where you can make changes, add or amend SEO settings, amend the URL slug, add a featured image, and change page attributes.
  2. Quick Edit, this will open up a small edit box where you can make changes to the title, slug URL, the date the page was created, page status, and page order.
  3. Edit with Elementor, this will open the page in Elementor.

Pages are not:

  • Pages are not posts, so they don’t appear in the time-structured views within a blog section of a website.
  • Pages by default do not allow taxonomy (categories, tags, and any custom taxonomies) associations. 
  • The organizational structure for Pages comes from hierarchical interrelationship, not from a system of categorization. (e.g. Tags or Categories.)
  • Pages are not included in your site’s feeds. (e.g. RSS or Atom.)
  • Pages and Posts can be interpreted differently by site visitors and by search engines. Commonly, search engines place more relevance on time-dependent site content – posts – because a newer post on a topic may be more relevant than a static page.