[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #9674: Better support for custom post types

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#9674: Better support for custom post types
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 Reporter:  wnorris                 |        Owner:  ryan    
     Type:  task (blessed)          |       Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal                  |    Milestone:  3.0     
Component:  Administration          |      Version:  2.9     
 Severity:  normal                  |   Resolution:          
 Keywords:  has-patch tested early  |  
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Comment(by janeforshort):

 But seriously, explaining Pages and Posts isn't that hard once you find
 the things that resonate with people. It took me quite a while to find
 what works but finally here's how I explain it:
 >
 >   ''"Pages" are those static things that are always there like the
 "Products", "Services" and "About" pages on a website.  "Posts" have a
 time/date component to them and are a lot like a news story. A "Post" by
 definition will have a date/time on which it's published and it "ages"
 from that day forward. Website owners continuously update "Pages" as their
 websites evolve but it's bad form to modify a "Post" unless to append an
 explicitly noted "Update" section or to explicitly link to newer related
 articles.  After all, you wouldn't want to quote and link to an article on
 CNN.com and go back later to find that the story had changed, would you?
 The same should apply to your blog Posts. So that's the difference between
 Pages and Posts.''
 >
 > With that explanation I've literally never had someone tell me they
 continue to be confused.  Try it maybe?

 Wow, that sounded condescending, though I'm extending the benefit of the
 doubt and hoping you didn't mean it to come off that way. I didn't say it
 was hard to describe the difference between posts and pages. That's easy.
 What I was saying is that because we use the word Page to describe what is
 essentially a static post, and the word "page" is used in other web
 terminology (a web page, the admin page, etc), it frequently happens that
 users get confused when they use the word "page" to mean something other
 than a WP Page, or the person helping them does, or some combination
 thereof. It's the main reason I always use the word "screen" when
 referring to what most end-users call a "page" when giving someone
 instructions on how to do something in WP. If we have to do a ton of
 explaining to describe the concept, then that generally means it's not
 named as well as it could be.

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