Page, post, or article? That is the dilemma!

Now that we have a clear understanding of how to create and edit an article on our Joomla website, let’s spend some time clarifying some key concepts related to the content management features, and do a comparison with WordPress.

At the beginning of this chapter, we mentioned that articles in Joomla are the basic unit of content management. An article could be some news, a blog post, a recipe, a static page, or an announcement. The role of specific content within the website structure is not important while creating it.

This is the first key difference that WordPress users would notice while using Joomla. In WordPress, you should define the role of specific content prior to creating it, choosing, for example, whether you would like to create a blog post (using the Post feature) or whether you would like to create a static page (using the Page feature).

In Joomla, a unit of content can be created as an article, independent...