{"id":132,"date":"2020-02-10T10:10:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T10:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowblogsintro\/?p=132"},"modified":"2020-02-10T20:12:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T20:12:33","slug":"posts-pages-menus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowblogsintro\/posts-pages-menus\/","title":{"rendered":"Posts, pages &amp; Menus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are going to create a blog, as opposed to a website you will probably mostly use posts and may not have much need for pages or even menus.<\/p>\n<h3>Posts<\/h3>\n<p>The Classic blog consists of a series of entries arranged in reverse chronological order. You make a new post and it goes to the top of your home page, pushing previous entries down. This is a post.<\/p>\n<h3>Pages<\/h3>\n<p>Pages are a special type of post that stand outside the time line and can be hierarchical (posts can have parents).<\/p>\n<p>You will need to link to the pages, perhaps in a menu, for visitors to find them.<\/p>\n<p>This site consists mainly of pages. These are linked to from the left hand navigation sidebar (unless on mobile where they are converted to a drop down menu).<\/p>\n<p>If you are making a School website you may want to use pages for providing the bulk of the information and posts for news.<\/p>\n<p>The reverse ordered posts do not need to appear on the home page. You can set your sites home page to be a static pge and have a separate page that will display post. This site uses the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowblogsintro\/posts\/\">Posts<\/a> page for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are going to create a blog, as opposed to a website you will probably mostly use posts and may not have much need for pages or even menus. Posts The Classic blog consists of a series of entries arranged in reverse chronological order. You make a new post and it goes to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowblogsintro\/posts-pages-menus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Posts, pages &amp; Menus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tip"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowblogsintro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowblogsintro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowblogsintro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowblogsintro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowblogsintro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowblogsintro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowblogsintro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowblogsintro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowblogsintro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowblogsintro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}