In the Privateer Theme for WordPress, post and page objects have been disassociated.
By default, WordPress uses three primary objects to display information:
- Templates ( the home.php, single.php, etc. documents )
- Posts ( user created posts - primary blog entries )
- Pages ( user created pages - like posts, but designed to be shown as pages )
At the database level, there is no difference between posts and pages within WordPress. All differences in functionality are purely through php code.
In The Privateer wordpress theme, individual templates are separated from user created post and page objects. Each page type is controlled via options in the Privateer Menu while the post and page objects are left to the editor one uses when creating new content.
Below is a quick overview of how this works in relation to the home page:
