How do you make an article page?

[tlrademaker]

Please check out my website : profitrush.com

I want to add an articles page (under the banner of Pages on the right sidebar).
That way I don't have to have articles as posts.

I've been able to set up an Article page under the Pages section, but don't know how to make the articles show up on the Articles page. I would like a separate section of Articles, not do them as posts.


Thank you. I hope this question isn't redundant.

Tina Rademaker
http://www.profitrush.com

[Dan Nickerson]

Tina,

It's a really bad idea to use Pages for articles.

If you only plan on having a few articles ever on your site it can be justified.. but you'd be shooting yourself in the foot, not using posts.

What most people don't realize is that Posts are simply much better organized Pages.

Posts get stored in archives
Posts get organized in categories
Posts go into RSS feeds
Plugins work better with Posts
Autocontent Plugins are designed for Posts
99% of your visitors are used to Posts for content.

Pages don't do much..

Pages are almost never used for article content.. They are used for static maintenance pages like.. Privacy, Contact, Terms, Sitemap

If you want to do what you say, there's a plugin called List Pages Shortcode that claims to do it.

I made a new header based on your design but sized for Socrates. It's attached.

[tlrademaker]

Thanks for the quick and insightful reply. I'm a newbie and everything tip helps.

I can't believe that the way you went "out of the way" by doing my header.


Thank you and I will be recommending Socrates to all my friends.


Tina Rademaker

[Dan Nickerson]

You're welcome.. and no worries.. took me about 1 minute..