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WordPress User Manual for Beginners
3. Structuring Your Website
One of the most important things to get right with your website is the structure of its
content. This can make an incredible difference to the usability of the site – do it well
and users will be able to navigate your content easily and quickly. Fortunately, with
WordPress the navigation of your site will usually follow a fairly standard route.
There are a few rules which it will help you to follow:
1. Categorise and tag your content so that it's clear and easy to find without
resorting to the search tool. For example, if the main source of traffic to your site is
interested in your stories about mountaineering, then a category called
mountaineering, along with perhaps some relevant tags against posts such as ‘Gear’
and ‘Recommended climbs” could be the way to go.
2. Resist the temptation to clutter your website with logos, affiliate links and
advertising. There’s nothing at all wrong with links and logos, but a sea of them is
confusing and distracts people away from the main purpose of your site.
3. Edit your content carefully for spelling, grammar and suitable content. When you
publish – whether it's within a magazine or on the internet you take a certain level of
responsibility for the information you disseminate.
4. Plugins can greatly assist you in adding functionality to your site, but don’t add
too many of them. . Ensure that plugins will work with your version of WordPress and
this also applies to plugin upgrades. If upgrading causes errors, WordPress will stop
the plugin usually, but if this doesn’t happen,. you may need to delete the plugin.
5. The front page of your site should contain at least some information about what
you are and what you do – this can help not only site visitors to know what it is you're
there for, but will also help search engines to find the content on your website.
To help you in this task, this document will take you through the steps in the creation
of a website. You can use the Contents Table if you wish to skip a section. The
website initially will be based around the default theme. Later on we’ll go into
changing the look and feel of your site using Themes which can dramatically change
your site without you having to do anything more than a quick install.
3.1 Understanding the difference between pages and posts
Before we start laying out your site, it’s important to have a clear understanding of
the difference between pages and posts:
Pages are usually those which have a static purpose in life. For example, an about
page, or contact forms. They do not usually contain information about news items,
for example, which are frequently added to the site. Pages are generally defined so
that they are always accessible from the front page.Some people build entire sites
with just Pages – this is especially the case for sites with little need for dynamic
content and is very popular with small businesses. Posts usually contain
semantically and chronographically arranged information – for example, news
reports, event results, and of course blog entries! The semantic structure is defined
by categories and tags, and whilst making it easy for people to navigate your site will
also help search engines to understand the content of your site and so improve the
relevance of search results.
content. This can make an incredible difference to the usability of the site – do it well
and users will be able to navigate your content easily and quickly. Fortunately, with
WordPress the navigation of your site will usually follow a fairly standard route.
There are a few rules which it will help you to follow:
1. Categorise and tag your content so that it's clear and easy to find without
resorting to the search tool. For example, if the main source of traffic to your site is
interested in your stories about mountaineering, then a category called
mountaineering, along with perhaps some relevant tags against posts such as ‘Gear’
and ‘Recommended climbs” could be the way to go.
2. Resist the temptation to clutter your website with logos, affiliate links and
advertising. There’s nothing at all wrong with links and logos, but a sea of them is
confusing and distracts people away from the main purpose of your site.
3. Edit your content carefully for spelling, grammar and suitable content. When you
publish – whether it's within a magazine or on the internet you take a certain level of
responsibility for the information you disseminate.
4. Plugins can greatly assist you in adding functionality to your site, but don’t add
too many of them. . Ensure that plugins will work with your version of WordPress and
this also applies to plugin upgrades. If upgrading causes errors, WordPress will stop
the plugin usually, but if this doesn’t happen,. you may need to delete the plugin.
5. The front page of your site should contain at least some information about what
you are and what you do – this can help not only site visitors to know what it is you're
there for, but will also help search engines to find the content on your website.
To help you in this task, this document will take you through the steps in the creation
of a website. You can use the Contents Table if you wish to skip a section. The
website initially will be based around the default theme. Later on we’ll go into
changing the look and feel of your site using Themes which can dramatically change
your site without you having to do anything more than a quick install.
3.1 Understanding the difference between pages and posts
Before we start laying out your site, it’s important to have a clear understanding of
the difference between pages and posts:
Pages are usually those which have a static purpose in life. For example, an about
page, or contact forms. They do not usually contain information about news items,
for example, which are frequently added to the site. Pages are generally defined so
that they are always accessible from the front page.Some people build entire sites
with just Pages – this is especially the case for sites with little need for dynamic
content and is very popular with small businesses. Posts usually contain
semantically and chronographically arranged information – for example, news
reports, event results, and of course blog entries! The semantic structure is defined
by categories and tags, and whilst making it easy for people to navigate your site will
also help search engines to understand the content of your site and so improve the
relevance of search results.