This site is built on “WordPress”. WordPress has historically been a “BLOG” management program. A “BLOG” (short for “WeB Log”) is typically a running commentary of some sort. In other words, a “BLOG” maintains a notion of time. The “blogger” makes a first post followed by a second post followed by a third post and so on. These posts contain a posting date and are presented chronologically for anyone who wants to “follow” that running commentary (or that blogger).

In contrast to a “BLOG”, many web sites contain a series of web “pages” which are organized into some structure. So a web site might have an introduction page, an “about” page, a “contacts” page, a “products” page, and maybe pages for each family of product and then a page for each individual product. This arrangement of pages maintains no notion of time. The relationships between the pages are based on their logical relationships and not on when they were written. WordPress does support these kinds of pages, and they are called “static pages” in WordPress terminology.

Unfortunately, because WordPress started as a “blogging” tool, it appears to provide much better support for “blog pages” than it does for “static pages”. Also unfortunately, our Magnolia Mobile News site is more properly suited to using “static pages” than “blog pages”. In fact, this is the first “blog page” ever added to the Magnolia Mobile News web site.

Why is this important?

Up until this time (November 2021), our site has not supported independent authorship because we have not used the “blogging” aspect of WordPress which most naturally supports multiple authorship. Instead, all of our pages were “static pages” created by a single editor. The contents of those pages may have been written by different people, but they were all posted to this site by that single editor. That is about to change. This post (entered as a “blog post”) is our first exploration into multiple authorship for the web site. This should allow us to have multiple authors contributing directly to this web site. This capability is still being explored, and this first “blog post” is the first step in that exploration.