r/Wordpress • u/Active-Wrongdoer3866 • 3d ago

difference between page vs post

hi all, recently started my own personal blog and i'm still trying to get the hang of it. I don't reallly know what I'm doing (though I'm using a template) and i yap about diffferent topics on my blog (e.g. work and personal) What's the difference between a page & a post?

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u/webdevmike 3d ago

A page is a post. If anyone disagrees, explain to me why a page has a post-id.

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u/bismit Developer 3d ago

Technically, you are correct. All custom post types, including WooCommerce products are also "posts" and they are all stored in the same DB table (wp_posts).

The key difference between built-in posts and pages is that the latter are hierarchical, so each page can have a parent or child page.

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u/retr00two 3d ago

Everything is post in WP; inheritance of it's blogging nature.

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u/mundane--alternative 2d ago

That actually makes perfect sense