On May 16, 2007, Typepad released on its official blog a new feature: Pages. Ken McCarthy (Founder, The System Seminar) alerted me to this announcement, and was curious if Wordpress offered a similar feature.

The good news is now Typepad users finally have the ability to create Pages. The Typepad blog offers several great ways one can use Pages, and more of my members can also benefit from understanding how to use a Page.

The other good news is Wordpress users have had this feature - forever, as long as I can remember.

How do you access this feature in Wordpress?

After logging in to your blog, click on the 'Write' tab, 'Pages' subtab.

Just like writing a new 'Post', you would simply fill out your Title, Body Content, Name of your Page (aka Page Slug), click the 'Publish' button and you're done!

In addition, on the Typepad blog, they announced a new feature -  "you can even set a Page to be the home page for your blog, so it’s the first thing readers see when they go to your URL." - aka Static Home Page, or Static Front Page.

I've used this feature via plugins for as long as I can remember, probably since 2004. Since I'm a fan of this Professional Theme/Plugin Set for Wordpress, there's a Static Front Page plugin that comes packaged with it. Simply writing and publishing a new Page, and using the word 'home' in the 'Page Slug' field (right column of 'Write' > 'Page' screen), it produces a static home page for me that offers a welcome page for my new visitors.

This static home page gives you the freedom to publish text, pictures, audio and/or video to direct visitors to the important sections of my blog/s, which includes suggestions to my visitor to subscribe to my blog feed or to my newsletter.

Currently, Wordpress has built in a static home page feature in its core feature set. I still prefer using the Static Front Page plugin from Denis (search for 'static front page' at semiologic.com), but here's Wordpress' explanation on how to create a static home page with their method.

For bloggers using Typepad, congrats! For Wordpress users and Semiologic Pro Theme users, it's just business as usual