Wordpress offers both posts and pages, and the differences between the two are not always obvious.
Posts can be associated with categories. Pages cannot.
If you associate a post with a category, and only have that one post for the category, then it can look like a page for website linking. Normally, each page can be linked in the sidebar, but each post cannot. Instead, the category for the post can be linked, or a plugin can be installed that might, for instance, display the last 5 posts. But if you want a table of contents that is harder with posts than with pages.
Pages can have subpages. That is, like a directory structure there can be subdirectories. Posts cannot.
Consider the Michael Jackson Funeral Website. Along the right-side of the page is a menu. Everything under ‘Memorabilia’ is a page. Everything under ‘Topics’ is a post. Each page displays one page of information. Each link under Topics displays the various posts associated with that category. There could be subpages listed under each page, but a decision was made not to clutter the menu with subpage listings.
Also, not all pages are listed in the menu. You can select certain pages not to be displayed. That cannot be done with posts.
What is going on is that the normal default terms of Pages and Categories have been changed to make the menu more attractive for the website.
Also, by default only posts appear in the Wordpress blog’s rss feed. Pages do not. This means if you only use pages and not posts, then you do not have an rss feed.
If you want pages to appear in Wordpress rss feeds then you need a plugin called RSS Includes Pages. One undocumented issue with the plugin is that it will not work if you only have pages on your blog. What you need to do is create some posts, then this plugin will be able to add your blog pages to the rss feed.
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