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

There are couple difference mostly about how page will be generated and handled:

Post is any document living in _posts directory. If is handled by site.posts collection and final URL will be generated using permalink configured in config yaml file.

Pages are any documents living outside _posts directory - they will always remain relative path to root directory as URL.

Except of that and mentioned by you differences they both work the same. Some plugins are handling them differently, but it's up to plugin developer(there are no guidelines about this topic).