The site under development is a WordPress blog. A blog is a type of Content Management System which consists of pages and posts. When writing to a blog you can do two things: write a post, or write a page.
Posts
Posts are the principle element (content) of the blog. In fact, without posts you would not have a blog. Posts are temporary. They are just like journal entries published within the blog. Blogs display posts in reverse chronological order (i.e. the last post added appears first). A post will always be added to the main page of the blog. Another feature of posts is that they can be categorized while pages cannot.
Pages
A page holds content which exists outside the chronological order. They are permanent. When you create a page, a link to that page is added to the navigation section of the website. Pages typically hold information which would not be expected to change so much (i.e., contact information, or information about the blog). A page is viewed when a navigation link is clicked on the blog. It is not viewed in search results, categories, or archives. Pages also do not appear on the blogs feed. Like posts, pages can be commented upon, but unlike posts they cannot be categorized.
I still don’t understand
If you aren’t following this don’t worry. If you’ve never blogged before it would be difficult to understand the distinctions until you post something yourself. Here is a short video which explains the topic: Creating Content in WordPress: Posts and Pages. WordPress also provides a nice treatment of the topic in their Codex.
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