Page or Post? That is the question?

  • So I am going to start a new part of my website that focuses on my travel experiences in other countries. I want to create individual pages about each country that cover my experiences in general from a country perspective and separate more detailed pages about different towns and areas I visited.

    Now, these pages will be a part of my website, but I don’t plan to at this time to build them into the navigational structure (I may do this later if I get enough content to warrant doing this). So basically, these pages will be accessed by finding them on a search engine listing (google), not by going to my homepage and navigating to them.

    I have to be honest that I am not very informed about the differences between a PAGE and a POST in WP, especially when to comes to how each performs in search engine listings and how they get indexed. I am just wondering if someone can give some insight into this and maybe suggest whether they think a Page or a Post would be better for my Travel section and the reason why they think so?

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    Pages are “timeless” and can have parents and children. Posts are “dated”, like a blog. As you’re not doing a blog, I’d thing that making a page per country then child pages for the towns, etc is probably the way to go.

    (moved to “everything else” as this is not a development topic.)

    Thread Starter victorb70

    (@victorb70)

    Thanks

    Remember though, you won’t have a reverse chronological list of posts for each country you’re writing about.

    You could feasibly set your countries as categories on your blog, then publish your blog and assign the correct category country to each post.

    On your navigation menu, you can then select the category as the menu item and the resulting click to that page will be in “blog” format listing all posts about that country in reverse chron.

    Of course, having a Page for each country, then a child Page for each town/city in that country would be good if you wanted evergreen, long tail content in the format of a Page. But, if you’re wanting to “blog” about your experience, you can’t do that in Pages. (Well, you could using Custom Post Types, but that is beyond the scope of this question). You can only “blog” in reverse chron by using the blog function of WordPress, then setting categories (parent, child, even grandchild) in your Categories widget sidebar in the post editor, or Categories under Posts.

    Notice Categories does not exist under Pages, because Pages can’t have categories. They can have parent/child relations though.

    Thread Starter victorb70

    (@victorb70)

    Not even sure what Reverse Chronological Lists are or why I would need them, but thanks for the info.

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