You can go to Posts and select Add New as shown below
Or you can go to edit an existing WordPress posts as shown below
2- Once you go inside your WordPress post whatever a new post or editing an existing one
You’ll need to scroll down all the way to the bottom of your content
According to your theme, your post and/or page will show the following
Header options
Most WordPress themes would show you this option
If you don’t see it, then your theme does not provide you with header options
wordpress post header layout option
Sidebar options
Again you may not see it in your WordPress theme
Just do your part and scroll down at the bottom of your post or page content
And see if it is showing any sidebar options or not
WordPress post sidebar layout option
Content options
Some themes come with content options that help you enable few things like
Blog display whether you choose between displaying full content or an excerpt
Author bio where you display your name as the content writer or author
Post date where you display the post published date
Sometimes post date has negative impact
Especially if the blog post has not been updated for a long time, reader may exit and look for another up to date content so be very careful
Footer options
Some themes come with footer options like having 3-4 columns in your footer area
What are the differences between posts and pages?
Pages
Posts
Pages are created for the purpose of displaying static contents or very rarely updated contents like
1) About page 2) Contact Page 3) Privacy Policy and/or TOC page 4) Blog or Start Here page (this has to be a page and not a post)
Posts are created for what’s new or time sensitive contents (at least you should think aboutit this way)
They show up in chronological order (latest posts show up first) usually on the Blog or Start Here page or any other page you decide to create it as static
In pages, you can add any page under a parent one leading to getting sub-pages where you can specify the order of sub pages by assigning a number from 0 to n sub pages will show up when you attach them to menu
In Posts, the parent feature is not available which proves that posts are not intended for parenting
No categories in pages
They can be grouped by using Category where you can assign any post to one ore more categories with a primary one.
No tags in pages
On the other hand, you can add tags to posts and not pages which helps in navigation to posts. You can also relate same contents together using tags
Sticky feature does not exist in pages as this proves that pages are always reachable from menu
Once you publish any post, you can select it to be sticky which means it will always show up on your home or blog page
WordPress Post Layout
How to create Anchor links as known as Jump links?
This is a little bit tricky but I will break down
Anchor links (Jump links) are the ones which you see on most of my posts
Where I create headlines marked as links and when you click on any headline it takes you to its section
These are normal links like external links
But you point to the same post/page which you are creating Anchor link from
To do that select the whole text
Then clicked on hyperlink icon on editor section
You can find it under editor area in posts and pages as shown below
A hyperlink option screen will show up to help you select few parameters as shown below
You can select which post and/or page you want to link to
Also you can link to an external page by pasting the external link in the URL text field
Note the #difference-between-posts-pages at the end of the internal link to the same post
This pound sign (#) with any text after it acts as a marker
You have to label your area you want to jump to with this code right above it
I did that by going to Text editor as shown below
Text editor shows all the HTML code written behind the scene
Then I went to the code where I have the part I want to jump to and I added this code
<div id=”difference-between-posts-pages”></div>
Remember, I tried the Anchor tag <a id=”difference-between-posts-pages”></a> and it gave me really hard time
Until I realized that it does not work and keeps WordPress removing them
It does not only make your post navigable but it really helps users read your posts as they may not go through all the post from start to end
Users may need to read few sections they need to.
How to create table layout inside posts and pages?
Sometimes tables are essential if you do comparisons in your posts and this feature is not available in WordPress
So the workaround is to use either HTML table code generator which you control your number of rows and columns
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