WordPress comes with two main content types as standard; Posts and Pages. We’ll take a look at Pages first.

WordPress Pages

Pages are used for more static content, i.e. content that doesn’t changes very often, if at all. An ‘About Us’ page is an ideal use of a WordPress ‘Page’. Pages can be hierarchical, meaning they can have pages nested underneath them (child pages). Consider the illustration above, here the About Us Page has two child Pages.

You can build entire WordPress websites using just Pages – many sites are built this way and there’s nothing wrong with this approach.

WordPress Posts

Posts on the other hand are the individual entries in your blog or news area.

Posts are your blog or news entries, these are usually displayed on the website with the latest entry first and the oldest last.

Posts aren’t hierarchical like Pages, instead you can choose to group related Posts together using Categories and/or Tags.

You might be thinking you don’t want or need a blog, and this might be true, but you can apply the blog concept if you’d like your website to display your ‘latest news’ or ‘company updates’.

Most WordPress websites will be using a mixture ‘Pages’ for the more static content, and ‘Posts’ for content that gets added regularly.