What are the differences between a post and a page in Jekyll?

Question

I am using Jekyll. What are the differences between a post and a page? As far as I can see:

1. they both can contain YAML front matter, and
2. a post has a date

Answer 1

Here are the differences

• A post filename contains the title and the date of the post. An invalid date in the filename causes an error.
• Posts are comparable objects, which means two posts can be compared. The comparison is made by the post date and the post slugs.
• The generated default relative URL of a post and a page are different (e.g. /2000/01/01/my-post.html and /about.html).
• A page can be placed anywhere but a post can only be placed under _posts folder.
• A post has more data out of the box for use in Liquid templates (title, URL, date, id, categories, next, previous, tags, content).
• A post has a unique id.

A post represents a blog post (so it is used to easily create a blog post). A page represents a website page.