Adding New Pages
Adding a new page to a site involves not only entering the new page’s text, but also nesting the page in a logical place within the site’s existing content and menus.
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Adding a new page
If you’re adding a whole new section to your site (ie, a parent page with sub-pages), read these instructions first. If you’re adding a page to an existing section, just follow the steps below.
- From the WordPress dashboard click Pages > Add New; or, from the top ribbon, click New > Page
- Enter a title
If the title is long, you can click Left Navigation Menu above the text editor box to create a shortened version of the title for the left menu - Add content to the large text editor box; see the editing pages tutorial for information about pasting text into WordPress, fixing formatting issues, as well as adding headings, links and other styles
- To make it a child/sub-page of an existing page, select the parent under Page Attributes on the right
- Add a photo if desired (recommended for all pages that appear in the site’s main menu)
- On the top right, you can Save Draft, Preview or Publish the page:
- Save Draft until it’s ready to publish
- Preview the page to view without saving/publishing your changes; the preview will open in a new tab
- Publish adds your page to the live site
- After publishing, check your work by clicking View Page in the top utility ribbon; you can toggle back to edit by clicking Edit Page in the top ribbon
- Add the new page to the site’s menus:
- If it’s a parent page, add it to the header or footer menu AND edit the mobile menu
- If it’s a child page, edit the order in the left menu
Creating a new section with multiple pages (parent page with child pages)
- Publish the parent page first, but do not add it to the site menu (this way it’s live, but you aren’t linking to it from anywhere)
- Publish the child pages, making sure to set the parent page under Page Attributes on the right
- After all child pages have been published and the section is “complete,” add the parent page to the site menu