Title: Difference between Posts/Pages/Categories
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Difference between Posts/Pages/Categories

 *  [kf4qhk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kf4qhk/)
 * (@kf4qhk)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difference-between-postspagescategories/)
 * What are the differences between these 3 things? I seem to be able to get a webpage
   out of each.
 * Jeremy

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 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difference-between-postspagescategories/#post-1853087)
 * Posts and Pages are very similar in some ways. They both hold content that is
   stored in the database and can be displayed by a template on a web page.
 * The big difference is in how WP handles the two. Posts are not related to one
   another: there is no parent/child relationship. They are time-stamped when published
   and normally retrieved according to the time stamp, usually in most-recent first
   order. An ‘archive’ of posts is just a group of posts that fall into a certain
   group. The group can be a time frame, or some other grouping.
 * Pages can be related to one another in a hierarchical manner. A Page can have
   a ‘parent’ and ‘children’. They are not normally retrieved by the time of publishing.
 * Categories do not hold content. They are just names that you attach to a Post
   or Page to allow you to group them. Categories also can have a hierarchical relationship
   to other categories.
 * If you need more explanation, I suggest you get a copy of ‘WordPress for Dummies’.
   I started with that, and it was very helpful.
 *  Thread Starter [kf4qhk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kf4qhk/)
 * (@kf4qhk)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difference-between-postspagescategories/#post-1853219)
 * Thanks.

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