Pages & Content

This is for my upcoming talk in the Beginner's Track at WordCamp Sacramento on publishing pages using WordPress. #wcsac

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1. Pages & Content The Beginner Track – Emily Lema #wcsac
2. This is a WordPress Page When you visit a website and click on the navigation of a website, you’re often going to see a web page. Today we’re going to talk about those pages and how you create them in WordPress.
3. First, Let’s Find Your Pages When you log into your site, you’ll see a navigation on the left of the admin interface. Look for the term “Pages” – that’s where all your pages are stored.
4. The Pages Dashboard The Pages Dashboard shows you all the pages on your site. You can edit any of them by clicking on the page title. But to create a new page, you’ll want to click on the “Add New” button at the top.
5. This is a WordPress Page Once we’ve clicked on Add New, we’re presented with the very, very, super scary blank page.
6. We Start with a Headline Right under the “Add New Page,” we’re presented with a blank space for the page title. Once we put something in, it will also automatically create the URL for the page’s web address, called a Permalink. Page Title Page URL / Permalink
7. You can change your Permalinks Just because WordPress gives you an automatic permalink, doesn’t mean you have to use it. You can change it by clicking “edit” and it will present an open text box for you to give it a new permalink.
8. Then we get into the work of writing… With the headline and permalink in place, you can get focused on writing your post. Once you’re done writing, you have several options before you click Publish.
9. What happens when you Save Draft? If you’re not ready to click Publish, you can click on the Save Draft button, which saves your page but doesn’t present it to the world. You can see the status change back on the Pages Dashboard. This lets you pause your work to come back later.
10. What does Pending Review mean? If you go to change the Status, you’ll see the Draft status and the Published status, but also something called Pending Review. That means someone else, with a role that isn’t an Admin, created something for you to review. They’re not able to click on “Publish” because they don’t have the rights. So instead, they submit a post or page for your review. This is what it looks like in the Post or Page dashboard.
11. Let’s Talk Visibility Public – It means everyone can see the post when you publish it. Password Protected – It means you’ll create a single password and anyone who has that can view the page. Private – It means you have to have an account on the site and log in to see the page.
12. Let’s Talk Timing Publish Scheduling – You don’t have to publish the post right now. You can also schedule it to publish whenever you want. Simply pick the scheduled date and time and click ok, and Publish and it will be scheduled.
13. Page Parents Page Attributes – When you change the parent of a page, it will change the hierarchy of your pages in the Pages Dashboard, and also change the Permalink, to put the page in it’s rightful place.
14. Page Templates & Orders Template – Different themes may give you different layouts for your pages. If so, they’ll show up here. Order – Let’s say you create a bunch of pages under “About Me” – this order defines how they’ll be presented when displayed.
15. Adding a Featured Image If you want an image at the top of your page, you can add it easily by clicking on the “Set Featured Image” link.
16. The Results How the featured image looks on a page is based on your theme.
17. Emily Lema https://emilylema.com