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As you progress through your quest to learn WordPress, it’s inevitable that at some point you’ll wonder about WordPress posts vs. pages. There are plenty of tutorials online on performing various tasks in WordPress, but they often hop over fundamental questions like this one.
Understanding the key differences between a page and a post, and knowing the implications of choosing one of these options over the other, is foundational knowledge for using WordPress.
In this post, we’ll take a look at the overarching, general differences among posts vs pages in WordPress. Next, we’ll dive into each category a bit more to help you further understand why the WordPress team created both pages and posts.