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Working with Content

WordPress comes with several basic content types: posts, pages, links, and media files. In addition, you can create your own content types, which I’ll talk more about in Chapter 12.

Posts and pages make up the heart of your site. You’ll probably add images, audio, video, or other documents like Office files to augment your posts and pages, and WordPress makes it easy to upload and link to these files. WordPress also includes a robust link manager, which you can use to maintain a blogroll or other link directory.

WordPress automatically generates a number of different feeds to syndicate your content. I’ll talk about the four feed formats, the common feeds, and the hidden ones that even experienced WordPress users might not know about.

Since WordPress is known for its exceptional blogging capabilities, I’ll talk about posts first, and then discuss how pages differ from posts—and how you can modify them to be more alike.

• Posts
  • Content
    • Dealing with Content from Microsoft Office
    • Shortcodes
  • Permalinks
  • Publish Settings
  • Categories
  • Tags
  • Featured Images
  • Excerpts
  • Comments and Trackbacks
  • Custom Fields
• Pages
  • Page Attributes: Parents, Templates, and Order
• Posts vs. Pages: Same, but Different
  • Posts are Pages; Pages are Posts
  • Editing Posts and Pages
• Media Files
  • Images and Galleries
  • Video
  • Audio
  • Other File Types
• Links
• Feeds
• Summary