Adding a page to your blog is so easy. Many will figure it out through trial and error and clicking icons. But just so that you have a graphical guide, here’s how you add a page and choose some options.
1) After logging in to your Dashboard / Administration panel, click on “Write” and “Page.”
2) Enter a title for your page. If you’re really keen, you can get directly into writing the body of the page.
3) One thing to notice is that your new page will automatically be given a Web address / URL based on the title you’ve typed. You might want to edit that address to make it shorter, clearer or more friendly if you’ll ever send the address with others. Click on the “Edit” link and change the file name.
Note: make sure the address is “Web-friendly” with no spaces or funny characters.
4) There you go. After entering your text you’re basically finished. However, there are some niceties you might want to consider. You may not use them often, but the following tips could be just what you’re looking for. If you’re writing a lot, you might find the text area size a little cramped. Simply click on the blue “Fullscreen Mode” icon to get the big picture. To go back to the regular interface, click the icon again.
You might also find that you want a few more options for formatting text. Click the icon that shows one band of colors with a second one beneath it. This opens “The Kitchen Sink” so you can change the color of text, add bigger headings, insert scientific characters, etc.
That’s it for most Pages
Other than adding media like images, movies, documents, etc. above is what you’ll end up doing most of the time to create a page. Click “Publish” to put the page on the Web and a link from the sidebar from every post. Other tutorials will give you help adding these. The remainder of this tutorial points out a few bits you might occasionally find useful for your pages.
Allowing for “Comments”
Some themes allow for visitors to your site to add comments just as they would to a Blog Post. The default is that the “Allow Comments” and “Allow Pings” boxes are selected. Most themes don’t tend to show comments for Pages, however, so unless you’re using a hosted version of Wordpress (e.g., you’re using the free wordpress.com), you can’t change this.
Ordering your Pages
Once you get a few pages created, you might want to change the order in which they appear in the sidebar or navigation buttons (if your theme has them). Pages are usually ordered alphabetically, but it’s simple to have the pages listed in a different order. Essentially, you’ll number your pages, “1″ being the first page to be listed. You can leave gaps between a series of numbers so there’s room to add more pages in order later. For example, your pages could be listed as “1, 3, 6, 8, 10″ allowing room to insert other pages later. Look for this interface to get better as Matt and the team say, “We know this is a little janky, it’ll be better in future releases.”
Password Protecting Pages
Occasionally you might want to password protect a page so that only people who know the password can get access to the content of the page. You might choose to do this if you link to a gallery of student photos or a page that is part of a private collaboration with another global classroom, etc. Simply click on the “Password Protect This Page” and enter the password you’ll share with those you want to have access to the page.
Nesting Pages under a Parent Page
It’s easy to arrange your pages in hierarchies so that some pages get nested under a main page. For example you could have a “Tutorials” page that has “Add a Page” and “Add an Image” pages under it. As the note says, “There are no limits to how deeply nested you can make pages,” however, not all themes show nested pages very nicely (or even at all), so try nesting one, then save the page and see how it’s represented on the Blog.
