Pages are items that exist apart from the blog entries on your blogsite. Pages can be used to convey information about the intention of the site, about you as the author, etc. This type of information doesn’t change very often. Think of it as a mini-website inside of your blogsite.

Create a Page

To create a Page, do the following:

• From within your Dashboard, click on Pages > Add New.
• Enter the following information:
  • Title: This can be any reasonable length.  Keep in mind that if you want to create menu items in a Pages Widget, the shorter the title the better.
  • Text Editor: This is where you create the page that you want to display. There’s quite a bit to using the text editor that applies to both Pages and Posts, so we have a separate post that explicitly covers using the text editor.
  • Custom Fields: Within this fieldset, you can create a custom field for your page, if desired. To create a Custom Field:
    • Name: Enter a name for your field
    • Value: Enter a value for your field.
  • Discussion: Within this fieldset, you can enable or disable features that allow for commentary and tracking:
    • Allow Comments: Checking this box will allow readers of your blog the ability to add commentary.
    • Allow Pings: Checking this box will allow for trackbacks and pingbacks
      • Trackback: A software feature that notifies a blog owner of something that is occurring on another site that might be of interest.
      • Pingback: A software feature that will automatically notify a blog owner that a post of his or hers has been linked to.  This information can then be used on the blog owner’s site.
  • Attributes: Within this fieldset, you can create a hierarchical menu structure for your Pages.  To utilize this feature:
    • Parent: This is the menu item you want your page to connect to.
    • Template: Some themes have custom templates that can be used for various pages that may have additional features or particular layouts.  If any of these templates are available, they will be listed here and you can apply the template style to your page.
    • Order: This is where you can set the order of your pages.  By default, pages will be ordered alphabetically.  If, though, you need a different ordering, just enter a numerical value here.
  • When you’re finished entering information, you have two options:
    • Save as a Draft: Click the Save Draft button, which will save this item as a draft copy, leave it unpublished, and be viewable only to you and those with adequate permission levels on your blogsite, or
    • Publish: Click the Publish button, which will publish your page and make it visible to the world.

Edit a Page

There are a couple of different ways to edit your page:

Edit from the Dashboard View:

• From within the left menu, click on Pages to open your Edit Pages screen and its list of pages
• Click on the title of your page to open and edit it
• Click on either Save, if you want to save it as a draft, or Publish if you want to publish it for all to view.

Edit from the Right Now Panel on your Dashboard:

• From within the Right Now panel, click on the Pages link to open your Edit Pages screen and its list of pages
• Click on the title of your page to open and edit it
• Click on either Save, if you want to save it as a draft, or Publish if you want to publish it for all to view.

Delete a Page

There are a couple of different ways to delete a page:

Delete from the Dashboard View Menu:

• From within the left menu, click on Pages to open your Edit Pages screen and its list of pages
• Click on the title of your page to open and edit it
• From within the Publish panel, click on the red Delete link.
• A confirmation dialog box will open to inform you that you’re deleting a page and give you the opportunity to cancel the deletion.  Click the OK button.
• You will be redirected back to your Edit Pages screen.

Delete from the Right Now panel on your Dashboard:

• From within the Right Now panel, click on the Pages link to open your Edit Pages screen and its list of pages
• Click on the title of your page to open and edit it
• From within the Publish panel, click on the red Delete link.
• A confirmation dialog box will open to inform you that you’re deleting a page and give you the opportunity to cancel the deletion.  Click the OK button.
• You will be redirected back to your Edit Pages screen.