Updated on Jul 10, 2025
The Pages section of the WordPress dashboard is similar to Posts. Instead of your posts, however, you will find all your website's pages here. The main difference between posts and pages is that the former is a piece of content, and the latter displays content. Another significant difference is that pages display information not updated often or ever (timeless content). Posts, on the other hand, are used for frequent, regularly updated content.
The perfect example for a page is Contact Us. It is a static page with content that rarely, if ever, changes. The archetypical example of a post is a blog post. It is an individual piece of content on the website that can be displayed on a page or grouped in a category.
The Pages section works almost identically to the Posts section. The table shows all the pages on your website and their status.
You can filter your pages by status and date or use the search bar to look for specific keywords. As for the table itself, the columns show the page's name, author, number of comments, and status and publication date. Clicking on Screen Options will allow you to toggle these columns on or off, set the number of items per page, and change the view style between compact and extended. The extended style always shows the quick-action buttons under each page.
Speaking of them, here is what they do.
Finally, to add a new, blank page and begin working on it, you can click on Add New Page either at the top of the screen or in the left-hand menu. This will open the editor in the same tab, where you can begin constructing a brand new page for your website. For more information on the process, check out our tutorial on how to manage pages.
This is all there is to say about the Pages section of the WordPress dashboard. It is one of its most critical pieces since it is where you will create the structure of your site.