Pages have edit and permalink links on them

Well, the “edit” link can only be seen by you (or any other administrators)…

The reason your contact form has the permalink and the category, is because you created it in a post, and not in a page. All posts will have that (unless you remove it from all of them) but pages should not.

Thing is, I actually DID create that page as a, well, Page, rather than a Post. And when I go in and create any new Page, I still get that dratted information coming up.

Why on earth do my pages hold permalink and date info?? Drat! ??

You’ll have to edit the template files for whatever theme you’re using. It’ll most likely be named something like “page.php” or something. Just comment out, or delete the parts that print out the “permalink” link and the “category” link and you should be fine.

Pages don’t fall under categories like that one falls under “general” – pages are more “stand alone” than that.

On the “Write” tab, there are two options on the second bar, one says “write post” and is what you’re defaulted to – the other says “write page” and has to be clicked on before you can write the page. But you wouldn’t have been able to put your page in the “general” category like you did had you truly written a PAGE.

Edit – I looked again. For some reason, nearly EVERYTHING on your site is tagged with that “general” tag – try looking for it in “single.php” or in “page.php” – that’s a pretty funky theme you’ve got there, and I’m not sure why the theme creator did things that way, but it’s a little “borked” so to speak.

Ladydelaluna, many thanks for your reply, and suggestions on how to fix it.

I think what’s happened is, in my theme folder I didn’t have a default page template (eg, page.php); I only had index.php. So whenever I wrote a page, it actually picked up the post template, rather than page template.

Oh, and the reason nearly everything on my site has the “general” tag is because when I moved over to WordPress from Typepad ages ago, the category listings didn’t come with me. And I never did get round to re-assigning all the old posts …

But anyway, no matter. Many thanks for your advice, much appreciated. ??