In WordPress, you can write either posts or pages. When you're writing a regular blog entry, you write a post. Posts automatically appear in reverse chronological order on your blog's home page. Pages, on the other hand, are for content such as "About Me," "Contact Me," etc. Pages live outside of the normal blog chronology, and are often used to present information about yourself or your site that is somehow timeless -- information that is always applicable. You can use Pages to organize and manage any amount of content.

In general, Pages are very similar to Posts in that they both have Titles and Content and can use your site's Presentation Templates to maintain a consistent look throughout your site. Pages, though, have several key distinctions that make them quite different from Posts.

Creating Pages

To create a new Page, log in to your WordPress installation with sufficient admin privileges to create new articles. In the Administrative backend, choose the Write tab and then choose the Write Page subtab.

1. Write a page by going to Write > Page.
2. Click the Publish button to publish your page.
3. Go to Manage > Pages.
4. Click on the page title to edit

Creating Sub-Pages

To create a page as a subpage of another (what is often referred to as the parent/child relationship) you create a page as you normally would, and simple scroll down to the fields below the text box and look for the Page Parent field. Then select the title of the parent page you would like this one to be a sub-page (or child) of.

Ordering Your Pages

You can control the order that both pages and subpages show up in the site. This is simply done by going to the fields below the text box while creating (or editing) a page and finding the Page Order field. From here, all you need to do is place a number in this field between 0 and 100 (though that number coudl go higher). The logic for order is that the lower the number the higher the page stands in the order. In other words, a page numbered as 1 would be higher on a vertical list of pages than a page number 2 or 3. Make sense?