WordPress Page
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In WordPress, a Page is a basic unit of user-editable content, similar to a WordPress post.
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Description
Pages are similar to traditional static web pages, with content such as "About", "Contact", etc.
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Pages are related to WordPress posts. Pages and posts are created and edited in the same manner. Pages, though, have several key distinctions that make them quite different from Posts.
What Pages Are
- Pages are for content that is less time-dependent than Posts.
- Pages can be organized into pages and subpages.
- Pages can use different Page Templates which can include Template Files, Template Tags and other PHP code.
- Pages may have a more complex array of readily available display adjustments when using sophisticated Themes with extensive customization.
- In essence, Pages are for non-blog content. It is possible to remove all or most Posts from a WordPress installation, and thus to create a standard non-blog website.
What Pages are Not
- Pages are not Posts, nor are they excerpted from larger works of fiction. They do not cycle through your blog's main page. WordPress Plugins are available to change the defaults if necessary.
- Pages cannot be associated with Categories, yet can be assigned Tags. However, Tags on Pages are not indexed via the tag permalink. The organizational structure for Pages comes only from their hierarchical interrelationships, and not from Tags or Categories.
- Pages are not files. They are stored in your database just like Posts are.
- Although you can put Template Tags and PHP code into a Page Template file, you cannot put these into the Page or Post content without a WordPress Plugin like Exec-PHP which overwrites the code filtering process.
- Pages are not included in your site's feed.
- Pages and Posts may attract attention in different ways from humans or search engines.
- Pages (or a specific post) can be set as a static front page if desired with a separate Page set for the latest blog posts, typically named "blog."
Database
A page is stored as a single record in the WordPress database.
See also
External links
- Pages @ codex.wordpress.org
