Use Pages or Posts For Information-Based Site With Many Categories?

[Planet13]

Are POSTS or Pages better for a site that will have lots of informational pages in several categories and subcategories, but would also allow for user comments?

Or does it not matter?

I will have categories and subcategories. I do NOT want any archives by month or tag clouds. I just want old-fashioned hierarchical navigation.

The category level will have text on it and then have links to the subcategories. I would prefer to have text above and below the links to the subcategories.

The subcategory level will have text on it and then links to the posts / pages. Again, there will probably be text both above and below the links.

Would like to show links to the sibling posts / pages in the same subcategory in a sidebar widget.

Thanks in advance.

[Nutter]

That's what pages are for. Posts are date based, posts are not.

[Planet13]

"That's what pages are for. Posts are date based, posts are not. "

Thanks for the input Nutter;

I see that POSTS also have built in categorization, while PAGES have subpages.

I guess they are pretty much the same.

So I guess the question is if there is a difference in allowing / moderating / admining comments (and to be honest, I am not 100% sure if PAGES allow comments).

[Nutter]

The both allow comments, although I've come across quite a few themes that don't put the comment form on a page by default.

And if you want you can add categories and tags to pages. There are plugins to do it for you if you're not the coding type.

[lorax]

Use Pages. Posts need a category == one step further in the URL structure. Pages are just cleaner and easier to manage for evergreen content.