Since the launch of WordPress, it has become one of the most commonly and promptly used website platforms globally. Around 37% of the top 1 million trafficked websites are built using WordPress.
Given the low maintenance cost, easy to use software and open-source platform giving a wide range of scalability and flexibility to use makes it one of the best choices for personal blogs to enterprise business.
WordPress Posts
Posts in WordPress link the web pages back to their main root platform. Posts are intended to hold time-sensitive or short-term content, example news and other content that is associated with the company and is of blog type.
There are categories, tags and authors for archiving the pages making the posts section mainly time-driven. It includes RSS Feeds.
With the help of parent/child relationships, the posts can be made appeared in a structured format using categories.
WordPress Pages
Pages contain content which is intended to be evergreen examples, about us, the home page, contact us and others.
One of these is considered the parent and all other web pages are nested in it.
Pages do not consider categories, tags and authors; they also don’t include RSS feeds.
So, what is the main difference between WordPress Pages and Posts?
| WordPress Pages | WordPress Posts |
| Are for Evergreen Content | Blog type or Time-driven content |
| Cannot use features like categories, tags or authors | Can leverage on categories, tags and authors |
| Cannot use RSS Feeds | Can use RSS Feeds |
| Flexibility to modify the website as per choice | Have limitations |
| Example – Home Page, About Us, Etc. | Example – Blogs, Updates, Etc. |
So, what to use?
- If you are an Enterprise or have the majority of Evergreen-Type content, then it is recommended to use all Pages – This allows for building the website structure in parent/child relationships. Even if there is some blog-type content, pages work quite well with it.
- If the majority of your content is Time-Bound then it is recommended to use all Posts – This allows the Admin to maintain and organize the posts with authors, tags, and categories and form them into archives and also allows easy setup of RSS feeds.
- If the content is of mixed type – Then using all Posts will be the best choice for you. It will help to keep your structure organized and there won’t is clashes or duplicate content on your website.
So, should you change the structure?
No, if you already have a significant amount of content on your website then it is not recommended. Unless you are facing any significant problems.
Yes, if you’re just starting with the new website or in case you are migrating your website to a new platform or changing the theme of your website.