The differences between Posts and Pages

Post or page? Users of blogging platforms such as WordPress or Google blogs will have encountered this problem. There is a fair amount of confusion over what constitutes a post or a page. And today, I will be breaking all this down.

Posts or pages are generally interchangeable in use, but they have specific use cases that apply in certain contexts.

Time-sensitivity

When you have content that is transient in nature, posts are the better option. What does "transient" mean in this context? Well, when you have information that is time-dependent, you generally use a post. Examples include an event happening this week, breaking news, a limited-time special offer and so on.

Time-limited offer.

But when you have information that is static or timeless and not likely to change anytime soon, a page is preferred. Examples include a contact page, an About Us page, or something like Terms And Conditions.

This is also why time-related information such as publish date and last updated date are relevant to posts, but not for pages.

Structure

Pages can be a list of other pages, or posts. You can also use posts for that, though that would be a little weird.

A page can be a sub-page of another page. There is no such thing as a sub-post. A post is pretty much a leaf node.

Navigational menu code.

As mentioned previously, pages are for static or "timeless" content. Therefore, links to pages are usually part of your site's main navigation and will appear no matter where on the site the user is on. Links to posts, on the other hand, typically only appear in very specific contexts. For example, on the site's landing page, links to recently published posts would appear. When reading a post, links to related posts might appear at the bottom of that post.

Features

Posts, being time-sensitive, should be leveraged to bring traffic to the site. One of the ways to do that is to add a comment section to a post.

Blog comments.

Generally, one does not have a comment section in a page. It's certainly possible, but who really wants to comment on things like your company address?

Similarly, if you assign categories or tags to posts, they are more easily searchable and this is a boon for SEO, assuming you enable that option on your site. But this features does not make sense to use on pages. One might even argue that all pages are a special kind of category by themselves.

In Conclusion

There is no hard and fast rule. Do what makes sense for your site or blog. However, all that I have outlined above are good rules of thumb.

Page me, I'll keep you posted!
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