Wordpress. How to start for very beginners.
So yesterday I registered on Wordpress. But I feel myself absolutely dumb there. :( Have spend several hours to post 2 pages. But I still don't understand how to write a book. The pages I posted loo...
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"CathyTea;14735194" wrote:
@chealsycat
Wow! You're doing great! Never feel like you have to delete everything. You can always check with me and @ra3rei and others, and we'll help! Sometimes, like you're discovering, it takes some playing around and trying different things. You're really doing great! So big pat on the back!
Also, I really like the text you wrote on your "cover" page! :)
And now! Onto the questions! :)
So my current questions are:
1. What's the difference between Pages and Blog posts?
Posts show up in your "Recent Posts" page in reverse chronological order. So when you write a new one, it's at the top, and then the one you wrote before that is below it, and so on.
You can assign "tags" to posts to help people find them better, for example #Bear and #BearClub and #CrazyDancingBears and so on!
You can also assign posts to "categories" as another way of organizing them. (Some WordPress authors use categories, rather than Table of Contents pages).
Pages are static, meaning that they won't show up on a "Recent Posts" page. You determine where the pages show up.. They don't use "tags" or "categories" .
I use "Posts" for my chapters. When I write a new chapter of my story "Wonder," for example, I write it as a new post.
I use "Pages" for my table of contents. Each story I have has its own page. So, my story "Wonder" has its own Table of Contents page, and when I write a new post, I always make sure that I add the new post to the Table of Contents page for that story. I do this by hand because I'm old school! :) There are other ways of doing this, and other users can help with those ways, if you have questions.
Another important thing to note about Pages and Posts from your local librarian archivist... new "Pages" will not show up in the Wordpress Reader, so if someone is following your site to automatically get your updates through their Reader, if you make a new page for every chapter of your story, that will by-pass the Wordpress Reader (this is quite awful for me when I'm managing the Stories and Legacies Index, since I use the Wordpress Reader heavily to get new story updates!) But if you post a new chapter as a Post, they will appear in the Wordpress Reader! I only use Pages for "static" content, such as table of contents. Every new chapter for a story I always put up as a Post.
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