Posts and pages both give you a title, a body, and a place to write. The difference is what they're for: posts are entries that pile up over time, and pages are the steady, standing parts of your site.

## Where they live

Both sit in the left-hand menu of your dashboard, one above the other: **Posts** for your blog entries, **Pages** for everything that stays put. Each one has its own list of everything you've written so far, and at a glance the two lists look almost identical — the same **Title**, the same **Author**, the same **Date**. The giveaway is in the middle: your posts list carries **Categories** and **Tags** columns, and your pages list doesn't.

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## Posts are the timely ones

A post is a dated entry. The moment you publish one it appears at the top of your blog, and it drifts further down as you add more. That's the whole idea — readers move through posts in order, newest first. Because posts arrive one after another, they're also the only one of the two that can be sorted into **Categories** and **Tags**, which is what keeps a blog readable once you have a hundred entries. Posts show up in your site's feed too, with their date attached. If the content belongs to a moment — a launch, a trip, a weekly round-up — it's a post.

## Pages are the standing ones

A page is the opposite kind of thing: content that stays where you put it. Think your About page, your contact details, your opening hours. A page has no date on it, it never scrolls off the bottom of anything, and it stays out of your blog stream entirely. Pages aren't sorted into **Categories** or **Tags** either. Instead they can be nested, so one page can sit underneath another — Contact under About, for instance — which is how a plain set of pages turns into a small structure.

## The two side by side

- **Posts** — dated entries that stack up newest-first in your blog stream.
- **Pages** — undated, standing content that stays where you put it.
- Posts are sorted with **Categories** and **Tags**; pages are sorted by nesting one underneath another.
- Posts appear in your site's feed and in search results with a date; pages don't.
- Both give you a title, a body, and a featured image.

## Choosing between them

Ask yourself one question: is this tied to a moment in time? If the answer is yes, write a post. If you'd want the same words on the page a year from now, write a page. When you're genuinely unsure, start with a post — it's the one that can be filed, searched, and archived later, and if it turns out to be permanent content you can copy it into a page. Nothing is locked in either way.

## Tips

- If you'd link to it from your main menu and almost never change it, it's a page.
- If it has a date and you'd want readers to find it in order, it's a post.
- You can switch the writing you've done between the two at any time — the editing screen is the same.

## Summary

Posts are the dated entries that stack up in your blog, sorted with **Categories** and **Tags**. Pages are the standing pieces that stay where you put them and can nest underneath one another. Pick by asking whether the content belongs to a moment — and if it doesn't, make it a page.