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LAST ISSUE WE REVEALED how to set up and secure your new WordPress website. Now it’s time to start using your new site’s tools to produce the content you’ll be showcasing to others. Content on WordPress consists of two basic types: Posts and pages.

Posts are primarily the stuff of blog posts: Time-sensitive material like an ongoing diary, where everything is published in a single feed and is date and time-stamped, with the most recent post at the top. Posts can be assigned categories and tags, to enable your readers to create their own filtered feed based on specific topics or areas of interest.

Pages are for static content with no expiry date: There’s no publish date attached, and they’re useful for providing information, such as an “About” page. You can’t assign tags or categories to pages; instead, you organize them in a hierarchical fashion, using a parent-child hierarchy. One page is the parent-for example, “About”-and then you create child pages off this, such as “Contact,” “Biography,” “FAQ,” and so on. These are then allocated an order in which they appear in the hierarchy-typically via a drop-down menu that’s always visible.