Generally, a typical blogging engine is made up of templates, your database of entries, and some sort of logic that stitches them together on the fly when a vis

Generally, a typical blogging engine is made up of templates, your database of entries, and some sort of logic that stitches them together on the fly when a visitor hits your website. A static blog is run through a processor once, and plain html pages are generated and stored on the server. When a visitor requests a page, they're served one of those static pages. WordPress has caching plugins that allow your blog to serve static pages (helpful when traffic surges and your database might be overwhelmed), but, by default, a WordPress blog serves content dynamically (meaning it isn't cached).