What is the real difference between pages and posts on a WordPress site and what to choose? This is a question many people ask themselves. beginner bloggers…and I'm willing to bet you want to know that too.

Should we really compare the two?

With articles, it is possible to produce periodic and succinct content on a given topic, accessible from the blog home page. You have the right tools that will help you better organize your articles, including keywords and categories.

With pages, it is possible to create static content accessible from a specific address. Unlike articles, to better organize pages, you can create a hierarchy, including the functionality of parent pages.

On the one hand, we have a news feed which includes all the articles and on the other hand, we have content that does not follow No chronologySo at first glance, the difference is obvious.

The origin of the confusion

With new versions of WordPress, new features added to the blog section have also been added (partially) added to the pages, which adds to the confusion.

It's the case for :

  • comments available on both pages and articles
  • the shortcodes which are both available for pages and articles
  • the featured image that you can add to both pages and articles
  • Personalized permalinks articles and pages that are identical

And as if that were not enough, there are several WordPress plugins which enable add keywords and categories on pages, or to create a hierarchy between the articles.

How to use both

You probably understood it, the blog section will help you create a news feed for your subscribers, While the pages section will help you organize your blog. Organize your blog so that you can use any page as the blog home page.

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Seen from this angle, the pages have a much larger dimension, because they are the support of all types of extensions on WordPress (portfolio, blog, forum, social network, shop). But it goes without saying thatthey are really not suitable to be used for the blog.

If you want Create a blog, then publish your content as “articles”. And if you want to create a completely different type of site, use pages.

So much for this little explanation which I hope will allow you to better understand how WordPress works. Feel free to ask other questions on the subject if you have any.