Blog Posts Don’t Need To Be Long

Nick — Mon, 18 May 2009 04:03:05 +0000

…to be effective. In fact, the opposite is often true. Be direct & concise and remember that size matters.

Twitter & Facebook don’t have a monopoly on short messages.

Create WordPress Pages

Nick — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:10:34 +0000

At first glance, it doesn’t seem like there is much of a difference between a new post and a new page. In fact, there really isn’t a difference if you are using the default WordPress theme. But once you upgrade to a new theme (like mine) you’ll see why Pages are helpful:

They are placed in a prominent location for quick navigation
They don’t need to be put in a category so you can have really simple URLs if you are using optimized URL permalinks like described in my earlier post.

These are most commonly used for pages like About this Blog, About Me, Links, Partners, etc. These are permanent pages that you think everyone should read, and these “posts” won’t get buried once you post new content – a link to them will always be easy to find. So as you start out your new blog, go ahead and make a few pages so that new readers can quickly learn more about you and what your blog is all about. You create a Page just like you’d create a new Post through the Admin panel (only you go to Pages – Add New instead of Posts – Add New) – just remember to make the Title of the Page something that will easily fit into your quick links navigation at the top…

Here is where the pages show up on my current theme, called “Carrington”

: Example of WordPress Pages

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Blog Posts Don’t Need To Be Long

Create WordPress Pages