Understanding the Difference Between Post and Page in WordPress

You can’t have a website without content. We’re not talking about high production value, HBO-style TV show content, or high-quality text content from magazines like The New Yorker. We are talking about ordinary content that you will use to fill your website. The copy you put in the “About Us” section, the photos you use on your website, blog posts, videos, company news – it’s all content.

If you have a WordPress website – and almost a third of the web is WordPress websites – the two main ways to publish content are posts and pages. While the two may look suspiciously similar to the untrained eye, they are different in many ways. In fact, they are so different that you can’t even use them interchangeably. Let’s find out why.

What You Need To Know About Posts In WordPress?

When you have a blog on your website or any other section that is regularly updated with new content, you’re probably using posts to add it. After all, that’s what they’re for – posting timely content that appears in chronological order on a website’s blog. The vast majority, if not all, of the articles you read on WordPress websites were posts.

Because they are used to posting content that changes in value over time, or even does not decrease, new posts will always be easier to access than old ones. But that much you already knew by reading blogs. You may have noticed this too blog posts often include the name of their author and the date they were published.

WordPress even lets you choose the permalink format that includes the publish date. These are just a few of the features that make WordPress posts special.

When it comes to editing posts, you can handle WordPress taxonomies, specifically using the two default taxonomies you get with WordPress: categories and tags. These taxonomies are very useful for grouping posts together.

Categories and tags differ in attributes such as width and being part of a hierarchy; so you’d better learn when and when to use categories.

Finally, you should know WordPress posts appear in your website’s RSS feed. People who subscribe to it receive short versions of your feeds in their RSS readers’ inbox.

What is the Deal with WordPress Pages?

Some content is not required to be posted on time or viewed in chronological order. You don’t have to combine everything on your website via the RSS feed. Some things don’t need to be updated at all, like the story of how you started your business and fell in love with that perfect store theme, or anything else you add to the “About Us” section of your website. .

The same goes for the pages you’ll use to list your business’s contact information or prices. The FAQ doesn’t change too often, and your staff won’t either, unless your business has a high turnover rate.

For these purposes and content types, you need to have solid, static pages that you rarely or never bother with.. If your website was a house, the pages would be the foundation and load-bearing walls to the plaster walls and furniture of the posts.

As they are used to display timeless content, pages are not listed by date like posts. Links that WordPress assigns by default do not include the date they were created. Even choosing the permalink format that includes the date does not affect the pages.

Pages often have no room for signature. This may be, at least in part, because they are usually reserved for providing information, such as on the about page or the contact page.

While posts are arranged chronologically and then grouped using taxonomies, Pages have a hierarchical structure. You can group related pages by making one “top” and assigning the other pages “bottom”.

The change is mostly reflected in the hyperlink of child pages, as it will include a reference to the parent page by default.

In a nutshell – WordPress Pages and Posts

When filling your website with content, WordPress gives you a choice of two tools to do this: posts and pages. You should use posts when you want to:

Usually this limits the use of posts to the blog only. So, while your blog content is busy working its magic with search engines or dazzling readers, pages:

Everything from the front page of your website to the about page is obviously a page. Now that you know which serves which purpose, you can use both to create a great blog and a great website. Or don’t – you can make a great website with just pages, with all the limitations they impose. It’s up to you!