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Q: What’s the difference between a POST and a PAGE?


  • A POST is an export that is dated, compiled, bite-sized and which sits inside one of the categories that appear in the sidebar. Your
  • A PAGE is an export that is non-dated, granular, complex, and free-standing. Your readers can access a PAGE via the PAGES button in the navbar.
Nomenclature Corner
When you see the (lowercase) word post in this documentation it refers to both POSTS and PAGES and is being distinguished from the sub-posts that are its descendants. A post is the “current” note and top of any exported webpage’s body area. Sub-posts will either be compiled and appear as contiguous subsections, or they will be non-compiled, and appear as SmartButtons.

To create a POST

To create a new POST, add a note to one of your category notes. When the note is ready for export, set its $blogReady attribute to true (checked).

To add a subtitle to your POST, enter it into the $blogSubtitle key attribute. (If you don’t see it, just run the stamp.)

A POST will show its created date automatically. To suppress this, use the NODATE export option.

Children of a POST will export as subsections. The name of the children will export as headings. The title of the POST is <h1>, the headings of its children are <h2>, the headings of its grandchildren are <h3>, and so on through <h6>. Notes nested more than six levels will still export but will be assigned a heading level of <h6>.

Here is the default export of a POST with its descendants compiled as subsections:

To create a PAGE

To create a new PAGE, add a note to Blog PAGES.

To add a subtitle to your PAGE, enter it into the $blogSubtitle key attribute. (If you don’t see it, just run the stamp.)

A PAGE will suppress its created date. To force the date to show, use the DATED export option.

Here is the default export of a PAGE with its children appearing as SmartButtons: