Which collection does this belong in

Both render as entries with a cover image, an author, and a publication date. The choice between them is editorial, and it decides how the piece is presented, sorted, and found for years afterwards.

Choosing

Blog Posts are dated by nature: a release note, an event recap, a price change, a company update. Readers expect the newest first, and an old one reading as stale is fine because it is honestly stale.

Articles answer a question that will still be asked next year: how to do something, why something happens, what to check when it goes wrong. An article that goes stale is a bug in the article, and the fix is to update it in place rather than write a new one.

Static Pages hold privacy, cookies, and the 404 page. Necessary, rarely read, never promoted.

Put a piece in the wrong one and the cost arrives later: an evergreen guide buried under a year of announcements, or a dated announcement presented as current advice.

Create an entry

The description is not decoration: it is what shows in the listing and often what search engines print underneath your title. Write it as a sentence that would make you click.

Making entries reachable

An entry exists at its own address as soon as it is built. Nobody finds it until a page lists it.

A listing page carries the entries-list component pointed at the right collection, and that page needs its own Page Map entry. Without the listing, entries are reachable only by someone who already has the link.

The same applies to Products, Events, and Collaborators, each with its own listing component.

Updating rather than replacing

An article that has gone out of date should be edited, not superseded. The address keeps its accumulated search ranking and every existing link keeps working.

When a piece genuinely has to move, add a redirect from the old address. See redirects.

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