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As mentioned before, a page is not a post is meant as something’s that static. I’m going to create a page to act as a guide to making a WordPress blog with links to relevant posts on this site. This should be a page not a post because I intend it to stay in one place even though it will be updated. You should find it in the right column if you click on “Guide to Making a WordPress Blog”.

Go to Write/Write Page (you can also go to Manage/Manage Pages and click on “Create New Page”). Fill in the title and contents just like a post.

You can make subpages by allocating a parent pages (much like categories). On the right column, you’ll find the “Page Parent”, if it’s minimised click on the “+” to open it up. Use the dropdown box to choose which page you want to make this a subpage of (you’ll have to have already created this page).

Like posts, you can allow comments or pings or make it password protected. You can also allocate an author, but there’s no option for dates or categories because pages don’t have them.

You can create special templates which can be allocated to particular templates. In the default blue Kubrick layout, you get a premade “archives” and “links” template. If you make a new page, call it “Archives” in the title and apply the “Archives” template, click on “Create new page” you’ll find that in your main site, under Pages, you have a new “Archives” link which gives you a page which has your archives listed by month and by category. Doing the same with “links” will give you a page that lists your links by link category. These templates can also be made to look completely different to your normal theme. Note that the availability of templates (and what they do) is dependent on themes (and your modifications to them).
Some ideas for pages are:

• A Guide to some aspect of your site
• Sitemap
• Legals/Disclaimers
• Essential Resources
• Favourite Tips/Advice etc from your posts
• Contacts
• Team Details (if more than one person is writing the blog)
• Credits/Thank yous
• Sponsors (if you have any)
• Similar sites (if you have a blog/web ring, you could list them all on one page)
• How to subscribe (through RSS or email)
• Downloads
• Instructions
• List of your products/services
• Where/How to buy/find/hire your product/service
• Anything else that is like an old style html webpage