Pages versus Posts
Pages
Pages in WordPress are for non-chronological content: pages like “About” or “Contact” would be common examples. Pages live outside of the normal blog chronology and are often used to present timeless information about yourself or your site — information that is always relevant. You can use Pages to organize and manage the structure of your website content.
What Pages Are
- Pages are for content that isn’t specifically time-dependent or that isn’t “blog content.”
- Pages can be organized into pages and subpages.
- Making a website using WordPress, which only contains pages, is quite possible.
What Pages Are Not
- Pages are not posts, so they don’t appear in the time-structured views within a blog section of a website.
- The organizational structure for Pages comes from hierarchical interrelationships, not from a categorization system. (e.g., Tags or Categories.)
- A specific page (or a specific post) can be set as a static front page. Websites set up in this way usually have a secondary page on which the latest blog posts are displayed.
- Pages and Posts can be interpreted differently by site visitors and by search engines. Commonly, search engines place more relevance on time-dependent site content – posts – because a newer post on a topic may be more relevant than a static page.
The general rule is to use pages for static content and use posts for more timely information like news, events, etc.
Posts
Posts in WordPress are for chronological content: posts like “Today in the PUB” or “Catch Cat-Scratch Fever in the Mall Friday” would be common examples. Posts live inside of the normal blog chronology and are often used to present time-sensitive information about yourself, your department, or your organization. When combined with categories and tags, posts can be an effective way to keep in touch with your campus constituents and the EWU community at large.
What Posts Are
- Posts are for content that is usually time-dependent.
- Posts can be organized by using categories and tags.
- Posts, in general, perform better than Pages in search engine optimization.
What Posts Are Not
- Posts are not pages, so they appear in a time-structured view within a blog section of a website.
- The organizational structure for Posts comes from a system of categorization. (e.g., Tags or Categories.). The organizational structure for Pages comes from hierarchical interrelationships.
- Posts and Pages can be interpreted differently by site visitors and by search engines. Commonly, search engines place more relevance on time-dependent site content – posts – because a newer post on a topic may be more relevant than a static page.