Here’s a short tutorial explaining the two types of pages within the Headway Themes Visual Editor – Pages and System Pages. I’ve published in the form of a video walk-through and also a written tutorial.

What Are The Two Different Types of Headway Pages?

In the Headway Visual Editor, there are two type of pages.

1. User created pages – these are referred to as the Pages.
2. The pages that are built into Headway/Wordpress, these are referred to as the System Pages.

On a clean installation of Wordpress and Headway, there are two user created pages, and eight system pages.

Pages:

1. About
2. Whoops! 404 Error!

System Pages:

1. Blog Index
2. Single Post
3. Category Archive
4. Archives
5. Tag Archive
6. Author Archive
7. Search
8. 404 Page

So Why Are There Two Types of Pages?

Let’s rewind slightly here, and take a quick look at Wordpress. Within Wordpress, you can create two types of entries: these are posts, and pages.

Posts were the original Wordpress blog entries. These posts or blog entries, are the updates that you regularly make on your blog; the articles, the reviews, the tips etc. They are what make up the mass of content on a blog.

As wordpress became more popular, people started using it to build websites, not just blogs. But on a website, you usually have more than just blog entries. You have static pages for things like contact forms, sitemaps, privacy policies etc.

So wordpress introduced the idea of pages. As mentioned, these are typically used for static or non-changing content.

And when you look within the wordpress backend, you can see two options for creating content: you can add or edit a new page:

Or you can add or edit a new post:

Pages are quite simple. You create a page, that page gets added to the menu, and when you display the page, you see it’s content. Typically there are not many pages.

Posts however, are what a blog is all about. And usually, there are so many posts, that you couldn’t possible display them all at once.

So with posts, people tend to look at a sorted subset – either the latest few, the most popular, or all the posts by one author, or in one category, or within a certain time frame like the last month.

So posts needs to be sorted, filtered, grouped etc so people can find what they want.

Well, within the Headway system, the ‘Pages‘ relate to the wordpress pages. And the ‘System Pages‘ relate to the wordpress posts.

When you choose a Headway ‘Page’ – you are choosing a wordpress page – the same list you see in the wordpress page admin area.

When you choose a Headway ‘System Page’ – you are choosing an internal template, used to display posts in a particular way. Either a list of excerpts, or all posts within a category, a date, by an author, which have a particular tag, or have a particular word of phrase in them.

Headway ‘System Pages’ are built in, and you can’t remove them, and you can’t create more system pages.

Note: Although the content on ‘Pages’ is typically static, Headway is clever enough to let you display almost anything on these user created pages, including posts!

Well, hopefully this explains the pages clearly,

all the best,

Paul.

Headway Themes is the Drag and Drop Visual Editor for Wordpress – http://GoHeadway.com/