That is a question that any blogger has asked himself at some point : Do I need to put it in a page or in a post? what’s the difference? I have heard a WordPress specialist recently say “it doesn’t really matter”, well it depends for who. Because for the visitor of your blog it does matter, and for Google too.
Let’s take a look at the differences between a page and a post.
A page in WordPress
A page is meant for static content such as an about page, a contact page, your privacy policy, your terms and conditions, even an article that tells a story about your website. Google looks for pages such as about, privacy policy and terms and conditions to determine how serious is that website.
An advantage of using pages is that you can create different templates for your pages so they do not have to look all the same. You can also password protect a page if you feel the need to.
A post in WordPress
A post is meant to live inside the blog, as part of a group of blog posts. You can see it as time-stamped information that is presented in reverse chronological order.
You can group your posts into categories so that your visitors will be able to see all posts related to a particular topic on what’s called a category page.
You can also add tags to your posts, tags are like keywords, they are more precise and granular than categories. Just like categories, visitors can see posts related to a particular tag.
A great feature of WordPress is that you can drip your posts. Thanks to the scheduler, you can write 10 blog posts at a time but schedule to publish them one per day for example.
Posts also appear in your archives, recent posts section, blog post listings and very importantly in the search results (when your pages don’t).
You’re now all prepared to decide what needs to go on a page and what needs to be on a post. If you have any questions, leave us a comment and we’ll be happy to help!!
