What’s the difference between a Wordpress Page and a Wordpress Post:

Pages:

Wordpress Pages are the static pages of your website. They are the pages you want to display from your top level menu and will remain static within your blog/website.

By default when you first install wordpress one page is automatically created for you the “About” page. You can either edit this to give a quick biography to your visitors and start to build that all important rapport. Or, after you have created another page you can delete the default “About” page.

To Create a Page, login to your WP-ADMIN site and click on the menu options or “Write” and then “Write Page”…. give you page a title (keep this short as it will appear on the blog menu bar) and then enter the page detail in the standard wordpress WYSIWYG text editor.

Note: a couple of options on the right site of the page editor screen:

• Discussion: If you want to remove the comment option from the Page (these are often more relevant to posts) then remove the tick from this option.
• Page Parent: Use this option if you are creating “Nested Pages”. For example you may want a page for “Products” and then sub-pages for “Product A”, “Product B” etc.

Note: Categories do not apply to Pages … only to Posts!

Also, Pages are not Archived.

Posts:

WordPress Posts are the “articles” that you write for your blog. These are typically the daily/weekly (or what ever frequency) post that you will place to keep your blog fresh and updated with new content.

Each post you write can be assigned to one or many “Categories”. These give you an additional “Menu” in the Blog Sidebar to allow visitors to find relevant articles.

Wordpress will automatically Archive your posts so that over time you will have the latest articles available directly under each Category, and a seperate “Archive” menu for older posts. The options for how frequent (if at all!) articles should be archive is under your control from the “options” section of the WP-ADMIN pages.

To write a new post, login to you WP-ADMIN page and click on “Write” and “Write Post”.