One of the first things that you will need to get used to is some terminology that relates to WordPress.
There are two kinds of things that you can publish easily. POSTS and PAGES. It can be tricky to get a grip on the difference between these two kinds of web page.
Think of it this way. PAGES are timeless. They are useful for things that do not relate to a timeline and will remain relevant for a long time. Things like contact details or the standard “About” page that you see on many sites are timeless and very much suit being placed into a PAGE.
On the other hand, items that need to follow a chronological or timeline order, and which may fade in relevance relatively quickly are better suited to POSTS. Posts are a weblog (blog) phenomenon. They are usually listed with the author’s name and the date that they are published at the top of the article. You could even think of them more as an article than a page.
Posts also generally allow the opportunity for the audience to leave comments. Although this functionality can be removed it often provides as much information to your website visitor as the original article when the visitor trawls through the comments that the audience has left.
In addition, posts will appear one after the other on a single page on your site. With this site’s theme, you will see the sidebar on the blog page where the posts appear. An example of this is your Task One – Planning entry which you can see on the menu at the top. On the other hand, if you click the HOME entry in the top menu and look at the page (or look at the Setting up WordPress page) you will notice that the sidebar is missing. This is because in this theme (which is the standard 2017 theme that came with this edition of WordPress) the sidebar is not showing on Pages. Only on Posts!
It adds a little variety to the way things look on-screen.
On the other hand, the setting up WordPress entry from the menu at the top is a page. It does not have an area for comments and does not identify the author and date of publication. This is timeless. I chose to use a post for Task 1 as it will naturally be followed by Task 2!
Each of the tasks you are given could equally have been presented as a Page but choosing to present them as a Post means that you are able to leave comments and make suggestions to me about how to improve the worksheets for future classes.
That is why I will make most worksheet entries a post and most instructional entries a page.