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A quick heads-up on wordpress “static” Pages – it is not entirely clear from the documentation how one is supposed to structure the template in order to get content to display properly when a page is created based on the template  – the problem is what template tag to use to display the user edited content (ie the content a user adds by choosing Manage->Pages->(Edit Page) or Manage-Pages-Write Page.

As a matter of fact this is quite straightforward – simply treat the user defined content as a blog post. All the template tags for posts can be used to display the user edited content – use “the_content()” for example to display the entire contents of the page. For some the aforegoing may seem obvious, but coming from a systems development background it seemed very likely to me that page content would be treated differently than post content.

See the WordPress codex for more information on creating page templates - it’s all there.

It is not entirely intuitive, but it does make sense to treat the “static” page as a blog post.