Question from Kathleen:  I was recently tasked to take over for the lady who had been writing our company’s blog and I’m trying to learn all I can about how WordPress works.

Although I’ve never blogged before I believe I’m beginning to get a handle on things. But one thing is very confusing to me.

I keep seeing references to “posts” and “pages” like they are different things. I always thought they were the same thing.

Am I missing something?

Rick’s answer:  I can certainly understand your confusion, Kathleen. Most of us think of anything that’s found on the Internet at a specific URL as a web page, and on the most basic level that’s correct. But in WordPress things are a little different.  [Read more…]