{"id":2285,"date":"2023-06-12T17:53:17","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T21:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/teaching-on-the-openlab-summer-2023\/?p=2285"},"modified":"2023-06-12T17:59:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T21:59:09","slug":"pages-and-posts-whats-the-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/teaching-on-the-openlab-summer-2023\/pages-and-posts-whats-the-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Pages and Posts: What&#8217;s the Difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pages and posts are the two main ways of adding content to a WordPress site. Although they look quite similar, there are some important differences, which are summarized below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pages<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Static content that doesn&#8217;t change frequently (e.g.,  home page, syllabus)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No categories or tags (usually)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No author or date displayed<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No comments (usually)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Linked to from the navigation menu<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Only site admin can create and edit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Posts<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dynamic content organized with newest content first (e.g., announcements, class discussion)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Can be organized by categories and tags<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Author and date displayed (usually)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Readers can add comments (usually)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Displayed in post or category archives<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Site admins, editors, and authors can create and edit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video summarizing these differences:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pages vs. Posts In WordPress: What&#039;s The Difference?!\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Ms50dyjvQY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although they look quite similar, there are some important differences between pages and posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts-and-pages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/teaching-on-the-openlab-summer-2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/teaching-on-the-openlab-summer-2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/teaching-on-the-openlab-summer-2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/teaching-on-the-openlab-summer-2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/teaching-on-the-openlab-summer-2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/teaching-on-the-openlab-summer-2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2293,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/teaching-on-the-openlab-summer-2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions\/2293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/teaching-on-the-openlab-summer-2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/teaching-on-the-openlab-summer-2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/teaching-on-the-openlab-summer-2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}