Difference between pages and posts

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  madamevengier · Member · Apr 11, 2008 at 1:46 pm

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  Hi everyone. I just started with WordPress a couple weeks ago. I can’t figure out the dif between pages and posts. I have POSTS at my blog but when I did a test page it just looked like a regular post (only it could not be seen from my blog). Ah, I don’t know if I’m making sense. What do people generally use pages for and how do you make them show up on your blog (to readers)? THANKS!!

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  mikecane · Member · Apr 11, 2008 at 1:54 pm

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  You can see an example of posts vs pages on my blog:
  http://mikecane2008.wordpress.com/

  Everything you see there are posts.

  Now if you look at the sidebar, at the bottom of it are these bold links. Each one of those is a page.

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  ellaella · Member · Apr 11, 2008 at 2:40 pm

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  It’s explained in the FAQ:

  A Post and a Page

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  madamevengier · Member · Apr 13, 2008 at 4:25 pm

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  Thank you both very much! Both your replies were really helpful. Actually, as it turns out a “page” is pretty close to what I was hoping it would be, so it will work out great.