Blog/Post FAQs

Yes, WordPress was originally designed as a blog platform and that functionality has stayed with WordPress throughout its lifetime. If you are looking for plan specific information please visit the cheatsheet.

Yes, Most blog platforms have an export option. The customer should be handling the export, but feel free to help them Google instructions for their specific platform. If they are using WordPress you can have the customer follow along with the instructions listed here.

No, you do not have to move your blog if you are already established somewhere and prefer that platform. We will be able to add links to your 3rd party blog that will take site visitors away from your site.

Keep in mind that you will have to pay for the hosting for both the blog platform of your choice and the new build platform.

A post type is a way to add a large amount of content to a templated theme, making the site load faster and allowing for easy back end management. Default post types in WordPress are blogs and products, but you can also have job postings, real estate listings, locations, team members, events, and more.

Nothing! Post is simply the “technical” term for a blog and is what you will see as the menu name in the WordPress Dashboard.

A Page is meant to be 100% unique, whereas a Post or a blog is meant the have the same layout with different content.

For example; a post will have a title, description, and probably a featured image. Every post has this information and the layout of the post remains the same throughout the site. Most often you will see the Post title and featured image at the top and the description just below. Posts are edited in the backend of the site using block editor.

A page can be adjusted to have a unique layout for every page on the site. GoDaddy builds pages using Beaver Builder and is edited on the front end of the site with a drag and drop interface.

Pages typically take longer to load than posts because of their unique nature, which is why if you have any content that can be put into a template, you should be doing this with posts. For example; If you have a lot of team members and you want to showcase their resumes on the site, these should be made into posts as they will all likely house the same basic information and can be put into a templated layout that applies to all team members.

PODs are simply a custom post type. PODs allow the builders to either add fields on to the existing posts or create an entirely new post type with custom fields. PODs are very useful when you have a lot of template style information to display on a site, like team members or food recipes. The possibilities with PODs are endless, just check with BOTD if you are unclear if something can be a POD.