So I remember learning that pages are kinda permanent, markers of sections and places to put timeless things. And posts are more time-dependent, at least in the standard sort of blog. But I think they relate in other ways too. Or maybe they’re just slightly different forms of the very same thing: a thought, an idea, crystallized up into something that can stand alone.
Here’s what wordpress.com has to say about it:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
But of course each post is also related to other things, too.
Which is why there are tags and categories and sections and such.
(which naturally leads to wondering about the difference between tags and categories …)
Here’s a key bit: pages don’t have tags or categories, but posts can. And how the front menu displays things can be set up by Customize. I think this simplifies my thinking considerable. But now I need to understand tags and categories …
One response to “Trying to remember how pages and posts relate.”
It may be that what I’ve set up currently as static pages are really just placeholders for categorized posts. The heart of blogging is posts: items displayed in reverse chronological order on the main page of the blog (if you want to). But chronology is probably only important to me at the time. What’s really useful is sorting them by big topic, like I’m showing currently as pages. Maybe when I have some posts in each topic, I will change the front page to show those topics. Hmmmm. This is a process all on its own.