In WordPress, you can put content on your site as either a Post or a Page.
When you’re writing a regular blog entry, you write a Post. Posts, in a default setup, appear in reverse chronological order on your blog’s home page.
In contrast, Pages are for non-chronological content. Pages live outside of the normal blog chronology and are often used to present timeless information about yourself or your site – information that is always relevant.
You can use Pages to organize and manage the structure of your website content. You can add as many pages to your site as you would like, and you can update your pages as many times as you want.
After you create a page, you can add it to your site’s navigation menu so your visitors can find it.
Here are a few examples for Pages:
- About
- Contact
- Privacy Policy
- Copyright
- Disclosure
- Legal Information
- Reprint Permissions
- Company Information
- Accessibility Statement
In general, Pages are very similar to Posts in that they both have titles and content. WordPress Theme template files maintain a consistent look throughout your site. Pages, though, have several key distinctions that make them different from Posts.
What Pages are
- Pages are for content that isn’t time-dependent, or which is not part of the blog content.
- Pages can be organized into parent pages and subpages.
- Pages can use different page templates, including template files, and Template Tags.
- Some themes may provide different display options for individual Pages.
- You can have a WordPress website with only Pages.
What Pages are not
- Pages don’t appear in the chronological view in the blog of a website.
- Pages by default do not allow taxonomy (categories, tags, and any custom taxonomies). You can enhance it via plugins.
- Pages are not files. They are stored in your database, just like Posts.
- Pages are not included in your site’s feeds. (e.g. RSS or Atom.)
- Pages and Posts can be interpreted differently by site visitors and by search engines. Search engines place more relevance on Posts because a newer post on a topic may be more relevant than a static page.
- A specific page (or a specific post) can be set as a static front page. Websites that are set up this way have a blog page that displays the latest blog posts.
Pages screen
To view all the Pages in your site:
- Log in to your WordPress admin screen.
- Click Pages in the left sidebar. This will show the Pages screen with a list of all the pages you have in your site.