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A ‘Post’ is A Verb and a Noun
Posted by: | CommentsWhen you use WordPress as your website, you get more than just ‘pages’ of your site. You get the blog ‘post’ feature that not only creates an online web page, but it also gets distributed through your RSS feed. (RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication). That means when you make a blog ‘post’ to your site, other people will see it automatically in either their email, feed reader, or social media site (such as Facebook or Twitter).
Now you could keep things simple, and just create a website with pages only. That would be considered a CMS (Content Management System) site. Fancy words for ‘just a simple straightforward site’. Or you could use the ‘post’ feature, as I am doing here with this blog post.
So, what does the word ‘post’ mean?
Well a post is an action: you can ‘post’ and article to your blog or you can ‘post’ a comment
A ‘post’ is also a noun: when you want to create a blog post, you go inside your admin and ‘add a new post’.
So a person could say: “Where is the post?” (using the word as a noun)
or a person could say: “Did you post a comment?” (using the word as a verb)
So go ahead, and post a comment below and let me know if this explanation was clear to you.
The 2 Ways to Build Up Your Website
Posted by: | CommentsWhen you create your website with WordPress, there are two ways you can do it. You can either build up the whole thing, and not tell the world about it until you are done. Or you can build it up as you go. Telling the world that you exist while you create your ‘pages’ and ‘posts’.
(If you didn’t catch my tip on ‘pages’ vs. ‘posts’ then click here to read that tip)
I prefer the ‘build it up as you go’ method!
Why?
Because it helps to keep you from getting stuck in ‘perfectionism’, and waiting till everything is ‘perfect’ before you launch!
Plus, if you put it out there to the world, you will learn more about your project/website, and that will move you faster to completion than if you did it quietly alone.
Well in the Website Creation Workshop, you are going to get the best of both worlds!
You will get a ‘Student Project’ area, I also like to call it a ‘Playground’, where you get to build your website without the search engines or the ‘outer world’ finding out about it. But all the students in the class will know about it. So this way you can interact with the other students, look at their ‘Work in Progress’ websites, get help from me on Workshop days, and have a community of people to help you along, before you release your website to the world.
The Difference between a ‘Post’ vs. a ‘Page’
Posted by: | CommentsOne key element of a WordPress website is the concept of a ‘post’. If you understand the difference between a ‘post’ and a ‘page’ with WordPress, then you can strategically decide how you want to setup YOUR website.
We are all familiar with web pages, those are pages that you go to on the internet. For example http://www.websitecreationworkshop.com/the-course-schedule/ is a page on the internet that has the schedule for the upcoming workshop, and http://www.websitecreationworkshop.com/spring2009.php is the sales letter to get more information about the course and to purchase it.
Well WordPress has a thing called a ‘post’. Most people think of posts as the ‘blog’ part of your WordPress website. ‘Post’ are the ‘blog’ part of your website. That’s where you put out your daily/weekly/monthly posts of what you are doing, your news, tips, or anything else you want to dialog with your readers about. I like to think of a ‘post’ as a newsletter.
When you make a ‘post’ on your WordPress website, that information goes out to anyone who has subscribed to you. They can be subscribed via email, (as you can do by entering your info in the box on the right), or they can be subscribed via RSS (really simple syndication).
To learn more about RSS and Blog posts, just come to my next training call/preview for the Website Creation Workshop.
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