WordPress Pages vs. Posts

Posted on | July 10, 2009 | No Comments

Posts and pages are used very differently in WordPress blogs, and it is important to know how to use each properly.

Posts are listed in reverse chronological order and make up what you think of as a typical ‘blog.’ Posts are included in category lists, archives, and feeds and are always associated with a date, which can be found in the URL.

Pages are static, they don’t change unless you edit them (whereas your blog is constantly updated with the newest posts appearing first), page orders and content are decided entirely by the user (or designer). Most blogs have an ‘About’ page, which represents what a page is quite well. Pages are for storing information that won’t change for a while, unlike your blog posts where a reader will want to read the most recent information first.

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