What’s the Difference Between WordPress Pages vs. Posts?

WordPress features two default content types: pages and posts. They have different purposes even though they look similar in the WordPress dashboard. 

This article will clarify the difference between WordPress posts vs. pages. 

WordPress posts 

You can use posts to create articles, blogs, and other content on your WordPress site. It will display them in reverse chronological order. The most recent content will be at the top of the list.

You’ll probably use posts for most of your content if you use WordPress as a blog. WordPress posts can be added and edited through the ‘Posts’ menu option. 

Older posts are archived according to the year and month. Posts are listed with the latest ones at the top. 

If there is a lot of content on your blog, you can make it easy for people to locate what they need by adding a search form. To get more traffic, you can send push notifications or automatic emails or create an email newsletter.

Blog posts’ timely nature makes them suitable for sharing on social media. Social media plugins can be used to let visitors share your posts. 

Blog posts have inbuilt comments with trackbacks and pingbacks enabled by default. If you want to turn comments off, you can do this under Settings » Discussion. 

You can also see the metadata on WordPress posts. This typically includes the author, date, tags, and categories. Metadata is fully customizable. 

WordPress pages 

Pages are static, one-time content like your privacy policy, about page, and contact page. These entries are timeless in the sense that you publish them only once. You can update them, but that’s the extent of the changes. 

Pages can be added and edited in the WordPress admin panel. To do this, go to the ‘Pages’ menu.  

Attachment pages

Other WordPress content types include revisions, attachments, and navigation menus. They are used in different ways. What is an attachment in the context of WordPress pages? The platform uses attachment posts to access any files you have assigned to a page or post. For instance, images can be uploaded using an image block in Gutenberg. 

It’s possible to upload media files from the media library or the editor. 

Pages aren’t meant to be shared on social media or commented. There are no social sharing buttons, and the comments are disabled by default. 

Pages differ from posts in that their nature is hierarchical. A page can have subpages. A page becomes a subpage when you select a parent page in ‘Page Attributes.’ 

The drag-and-drop builder plugin lets you create customized WordPress pages. You can choose to apply page layouts that are different from WordPress’ default layout. 

Pages vs. Posts: Takeaways

• You don’t share pages on social media. 
• Pages don’t have an author and date of publication. 
• Posts are timely, and pages are timeless.
• You organize posts using categories and tags.
• You organize pages as main and subpages or child and parent pages.

Posts and pages have some similarities. The functions of both can be enhanced using WordPress plugins, for example. Both are used to publish content. You can add images, text, forms, videos, and more to both. Both support featured images. 

Your WordPress website doesn’t have to have any posts. 

Frequently Asked Questions 

Among the most frequently asked questions is how many posts and pages a site can have. The answer: as many of each as you want. There is no limit on how many you can create.

Can you switch pages to posts and vice versa? Many people who are new to WordPress add content to posts instead of creating pages by accident. Likewise, you might save a blog post as a page. This is easy to fix with the plugin to switch post types. You can also create custom post content in WordPress. There is a ‘Products’ post type in the admin panel if you run an online store using WooCommerce.