September 24, 2022 | Posted in WordPress
If you just started a blog, you may wonder what the most important pages you must have been. Pages let you add helpful information to your blog without changing how often you usually post. This article will discuss the most important pages every WordPress blog should have.
Posts and pages are the two types of content that come with WordPress. Pages are used to make content that isn’t part of your regular blog post schedule. Posts are used to write blog posts.
See our guide on the difference between WordPress posts and pages to learn more.
Pages are usually used to add content meant to stay the same for a long time. Such as an “about us” page.
Help users find this content by keeping it separate from your blog posts. You can also easily change the order of your pages, add them to your navigation menus, and use page builders to give each page its layout.
So, look at some important ideas for pages you can use on your WordPress blog.
Whether your blog is a business blog or a personal blog written by just one person, you can call this page “About Us” or “About Me.”
You can tell people about the people behind the website, its purpose, mission, and values, as well as what they can expect to see on your blog on this page. People presumably will trust you more if they know the real people behind the scenes.
Your blog’s readers, advertisers, and possible business partners need to know how to get in touch with you. Users can quickly and easily send you a message or find out how to get in touch with you without having to leave a public commentary on your site.
Users can contact you easily with a contact form. But you can also add your email address, a map of where you are, and your social media profiles to give people more ways to contact you.
If you use your WordPress blog to make money online, you need to add a disclaimer page. Here, you can tell people how you make money with your blog. For instance, if you show banner ads or promote affiliate products, you can let users know that this is how you make money from your content.
On your privacy policy page, you tell users what information you collect on your website and how you and other people may use it. Even if you don’t collect user data, Google Analytics and other third-party tools on your website can still set cookies.
If you use Google AdSense, you must add a page to your website that discusses your privacy policies.
There are many online templates and generators for privacy policies. You could also look at our privacy policy page and use it as a guide to making your own.
You need terms of service page if you have an online store or offer services on your blog. Since it is a legal document, you should get help from a lawyer. You can also find templates online, but using them is at your own risk.
It lets you limit your responsibility if the information and services on your website are used badly. It can also tell users how to use your website, product, or services and what they are responsible for regarding copyright and trademarks.
Eventually, as your blog grows, you’ll have a lot more content to show off on the front page. This might make it hard for new users to figure out how to get the most out of your blog. This is where a page called “Start Here” can help.
This page will show new users where to find your best content. This clarifies to users what they can get from your content and what resources they should look at first.
In the case of WooCommerce, if you plan to sell items, it will instantly generate a shop page that you can add to your navigation menus.
A page for each product or service will be necessary if you are not using an eCommerce plugin. You can also make a “parent” page that lists all of your products and a “child” page that gives more information about each product.
WordPress can’t find a specific piece of content; it automatically shows a “404” page. Most of the time, the 404 page is very simple and not very helpful.
You can change that plain page to a custom 404 error page to give your users more chances to find content and keep looking around.
WordPress automatically makes archives based on date, category, and tags. But the information is still spread over different pages, making it hard for your users to see all your best content at once.
A custom archives page can help with this. It’s a simple page that you can use to show off your most popular posts, compact archives, top categories, tags, and more.
Ads are the only way that many blogs make money from their content. Signing up for Google AdSense is the best way to do this. But you can also sell ad spots straight to those who want to buy them.
To do this, you will need to make an “Advertise” page with information about your available ad spots, the number of times people visit your site each month on average, and the kind of people who visit your site. A contact form will ensure advertisers can quickly get in touch with you.
You will need a WordPress ad management plugin if you want to show ads on your website and control them. We suggest you use AdSanity because it makes it easy to manage ads, whether you host them or use a service like Google AdSense.
If you have a WordPress blog with more than one author and want more writers, you need a “write for us” page. This page tells people looking for blogging jobs about the chance to write for your site.
You can tell people what your blog is about and what kind of content you want on this page. Most importantly, tell them how writing on your blog will help them. Add a contact form so that people can quickly send you a message.