What are Pages in WordPress?
Pages contain static “one-off” content such as your about page, privacy policy, contact page, and so on. Pages are timeless entities, and the WordPress database stores the published date of the page.
Your about page, for example, is not supposed to expire. Sure, you can go back and make changes, but you’re unlikely to have about page 2012, about page 2013, and so on.
WPBeginner has a variety of WordPress pages, such as our start here page, about us page, contact us page, and custom pages, such as our free business tools page.
Example of a business tools page
Click the ‘Pages’ menu option in your WordPress admin panel to add and edit pages.
The page editor’s screen looks like this.
Screenshot of the WordPress page editor
Because pages aren’t designed to be social, they usually lack social sharing buttons. You probably don’t want people sharing your privacy policy page on Twitter, for example.
Comments are also absent from pages. You don’t want people to leave comments on your contact or terms of service pages. It is possible to enable comments. For your WordPress pages, however, it is disabled by default.
The screen comments section of the page editor
Pages, unlike posts, are naturally hierarchical. Within a page, for example, you can have subpages or child pages.
When editing a page, you can quickly turn it into a subpage by selecting a parent page from the ‘Page Attributes section.
The page editor selects the parent page.
You can also use a drag-and-drop WordPress page builder plugin to create completely custom WordPress pages.
This allows you to use different page layouts than WordPress’ default option.
Pages vs. Posts in WordPress (Key Differences)
To summarise, the key differences between posts and pages in WordPress are as follows.
Pages are timeless, while posts are timely.
Pages are not meant to be shared on social media, whereas posts are.
Pages are hierarchical and organized as child and parent pages, while posts are organized using categories and tags.
Pages do not have an author or a published date, whereas posts do.
There may be exceptions to the above differences. WordPress plugins can be used to enhance the functionality of both types of content.
Despite their differences, pages and posts in WordPress have some similarities.
First and foremost, they are both used to publish content. Both posts and pages allow you to include text, images, videos, forms, and other elements. Featured images are supported in both pages and posts.
You can create a WordPress website without ever using WordPress posts or blogging features. For your news, announcements, and other articles, you can also create a small business website with pages and a separate blog section.
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