The Differences between Posts and Pages

Blogs are composed of two main structures: posts and pages. New bloggers often struggle with the concept of posts and pages.

There are key differences between pages and posts that are important to understand when working with them.

Blog pages are displayed independently of post history and are more static i.e. remain the same from day to day since they are rarely updated
You normally use pages for information that you want to share with your readers but don’t expect to update frequently. e.g. Edublogs Info! on The Edublogger is a page
Pages don’t have time stamps i.e. don’t show the date they were posted
Blog pages can appear anywhere on your blog depending on your blog theme
You can change the order pages appear. Pages are normally displayed in alphabetical order but their order can be changed using Page Order
You can’t assign tags and categories to pages
Pages don’t appear in RSS feeds so readers need to visit your site to view the latest updates to pages
You can’t embed posts into a page
You can create sub-pages which you assign to a parent page to build a more complex site

Blog posts appear in reverse chronological order so that the most recent post is the first post that your readers see
Posts are dynamic (updated regularly) and have time stamps i.e. display the date posted
You can assign tags and categories to organise blog posts
Posts appear in RSS feeds i.e. your readers who subscribe to your blog will receive your latest post in their feed reader