Differentiating between posts and pages

  • I’m pretty new to WordPress, but have got an installation integrated with my site to some degree. My problem is this:-

    I’ve got a three column layout; the left column lists all the pages, the centre has the content (the pages themselves) and the right column I want news items in (assume I can use posts for this).

    Left and centre columns are fine, but depending on how I set things up in admin->Appearance->Reading, the middle and right colums will either display the posts OR the pages.

    Can anyone help me with this? i.e. displaying the page content in the middle and the posts on the right?

    Thanks muchly in advance!

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  • The difference between pages and posts are that posts are regularly changing. Pages are static information, like an about page or something.

    It’s possible to put page content into a post, but it’s not easy to do and would require some template hacking to get it done right. It’s ill-advised too.

    If you need specific content within certain posts, I’d recommend just creating a custom template for that category and add the content in the template instead of trying to pull from a page.

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