Chapter 4

Managing Content with WordPress

In This Chapter

Archiving your content

Working with permalinks

Feeding your readers with RSS

WordPress provides you with many ways to organize, categorize, and archive content on your Web site or blog (or both!). Packaged within the WordPress software is the capability to maintain chronological and categorized archives of your publishing history, and it provides your Web site visitors with ways to find and read your content. WordPress uses PHP and MySQL technology to sort and organize everything you publish in an order that you, and your readers, can access by date and category. This archiving process is done automatically with every post you publish to your blog.

In this chapter, you find out all about WordPress archiving from categories to tags and more. You also discover how to take advantage of the built-in permalink system that creates SEO-friendly permalinks for your site. Finally, this chapter takes you through all the types of content you can build within WordPress. When people refer to content, they assume you mean posts and pages that you publish, which is true; but there other types of content and ways to organize it that help you build a more dynamic and informative Web site.