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How to distinguish posts and pages in your WordPress blog

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No matter how different they are, posts and pages on Wordpress are sometimes easily mistaken for each other, if you do not understand their core functions.

If you are confused about these two terms, take a look at this article on How to distinguish posts and pages in your WordPress blog. In the guide below, you would find the most significant differences between the two units, posts and pages, in your WordPress blog.

Posts

Posts on Wordpress are entries listed on your blog home page or posts page in reverse chronological order, given that you've set one in the Reading section from Settings. All posts are listed in reverse chronological order, except for sticky posts, which are set to always appear on top of the posts list.

You could access Posts in the Archives, Categories, Recent Posts, or in the RSS feed of the blog. The number of posts being displayed at a time can be moderated in the Reading Settings.

You could read the publish date of a post (year/month/date) from its URL. For example: http://yourblog.wordpress.com/2019/03/10/post-title/

Pages

Unlike posts, pages are static, and are not listed in time order. Pages cannot be taggged or categorized. Just take a look at your About page and you'll see the significant differences between posts and pages.

Pages are pretty flexible in terms of display location. You could find them either in the sidebar using the Pages widget, or in tabs at the top of the blog (for some certain theme). If you use the Pages widget for your 50 pages, then all of those pages will be listed all the time.

Wordpress set up the URL for a page in this format: http://yourblog.wordpress.com/page-title/

FAQs

How many posts/pages can I have?

You could have as many posts or pages as you want. There is no limit for that.

How can I post to a Page?

All posts are displayed on the main posts page. However, you could choose to have specific posts displayed on category pages using Wordpress custom menus feature. You are in total control of which default page for your posts to be displayed in by visiting Settings, then Reading in the Dashboard. This will possibly require you to change your Home page as well.

Conclusions

Listed above are the core features and functions of posts and blogs on Wordpress, which helped you answer the question of How to distinguish posts and pages in your WordPress blog. Before getting down to work, it's best to learn the theory and clear all the confusion first.

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