Add a Page in Wordpress
Having given a basic run through on how to add posts in wordpress the next step is “Pages”. A Wordpress “Page” is basically a fixed post in that it has a link in the page navigation and it’s own link such as http://www.mysite.com/my-new-page/. You can edit it in much the same way you can a post with a few specific differences which I’ll go through.
Create Page
Like a post a page has a Title and Body of text. The main additional settings for a page include:
- Page Parent
- This is the parent of the page in the site navigation and is only relevant if you have a page needing sub-pages
- Page Template
- This will change the look of that particular page. Only relevant if you have different page templates.
- Post Slug
- This is the “my-new-page” bit of the page link; http://www.mysite.com/my-new-page/ and is produced automatically when you “Create Page” but you can change it if needed.
- Page Order
- This determines the order the page appears in the navigation. If you do decide to set the order of the page you need to make sure you alter all pages influenced by the page order as well as the current one.
Manage Pages
This is not much different from the “Manage Posts” page except for the fact that you access it via Manage > Pages instead of Manage > Posts. Clicking “Edit” brings you back to the page where you can …ahem… edit it.
