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Hi All,
I inherited a website where all the sub pages (28) are Posts and not Pages. I see no benefit for keeping the site this way especially since they currently do not have a blog (but will soon) the structure will become very confusing.
Any thoughts why someone would create all their sub-pages as posts? This is the first time I’ve ever seen this.
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The first things that come to mind are :
* A misunderstanding about permalinks. They liked more the permalink structure of pages
* They didn’t like the default post template, so they just used pages
But it’s hard to tell
I see no reason for doing this, unless there’s something wrong with the theme
I believe there are plugins to turn posts into pages btw
Yeah, people do funny things like that. A few years ago I got a site built by a “sophistimacated programmager” who decided he was going to ACF the #!%! out of that site.
So first thing he did was repurpose the blog CPT to have only location for branch offices. Then when the clients said they wanted a blog he…
Created a new CPT called “Blog.” With categories but no tags. Had an ACF field helpfully named “H1” that he used in his xyz_template.php files for the actual post title (as opposed to the actual, you know, standard WordPress title… which was still there but wasn’t used.) And half a dozen other useless fields.
Based on all the code he threw into the theme he obviously knew how to program. And even use program WordPress. But wow what a full set of bad decisions!
No surprise that rank amateurs also do foolish things. Using posts for sub-pages instead of pages isn’t even the most foolish.
For the record the Post Type Switcher (https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-type-switcher/) in the free WordPress plugin directory, is very handy for this sort of nonsense.
I’m pretty sure you’ll need to rebuild the submenus. Make and test a backup, obviously.
There’s a post type switcher plugin that’s great and saves you tons of time.
I’m not so sure that Google views them any differently (post or page). The urls are a different story.