WordPress Pages
WordPress is a terrific CMS for both: those who want to make a blog, and for those who want to make a website. With WordPress it is easy to create a website with or without a blog (if that’s what you want!) and show it off in style with a fantastic Theme. WordPress provides you with the ease to create a website with as many bells-and-whistles as you want!
Let us look at this interesting functionality provided by WordPress: Creating Pages!
What are WordPress Pages?
WordPress has the facility for its users to create static pages. These WordPress pages can easily be accessed and created, and arranged according to your specified order and then displayed on your website.
When you log into your dashboard, you can see a menu item called ‘Pages‘ on the left hand side menubar.
If you click on the disclosure triangle, you should see 2 options: the first one ‘Pages‘ is to get a list of all the different pages on your website. When you install WordPress, you get an ‘About’ page already pre-created.
Right below this menu item, you can see another item which says ‘Add New‘. If you click on this, you will be able to add a new page to your website.
WordPress Pages allow you to create pages where you can display static information – information that is likely to remain the same for quite a while. For example, an ‘About’ page or a ‘Contact’ page which is bound to remain the same for quite a while.
In comparison, the ‘Blog’ page will keep having content which will keep on changing as more and more blog posts keep getting added onto the blog page.
Features of WordPress Pages
WordPress Pages have some very good features.
You can save the Page as a Draft, while you work on it over a period of time. And as and when you make some changes, you can Preview it, so you get a fair idea of how it will look like when it goes live. This way the chances of your website not looking ‘just right’ will be less.
You can also change the ‘Draft’ status to ‘Pending Review‘ by clicking on the ‘Edit’ link near ‘Status’. This can come in very handy if you are maintaining a website where several people submit their articles. So the editor of the site’s content can know at one glance how many articles she has to review.
Right after the Status link, you can see the ‘Visibility’ link. From here, you can make the post either Public or Private, and even set a Password so that only some people can access it.
In the ‘Page Attributes‘ section, you can set up whether the page is a main or a ‘Parent‘ page, or whether it is a ‘Child‘ page of another ‘Parent’ page. This way, you can set up a hierarchy of pages, and display them in a nice drop-down (depending on your Theme’s features) on the website. Right here, you can also set up the ‘Order‘ in which the page will appear on the site. This way you can specify which page appears before and after which page.
Even while you create the Page, WordPress offers a very easy to use interface with a lot of features that can make the process very easy.
You can easily use the WordPress interface to write your Page’s content. The features are pretty standard: you can format text, insert links and images and videos, change font colors – basically you get to do most of what you can do in a normal document in your word processing software.
You can also see how your website’s content is formatted – both in a visual manner, and in HTML. So if you want to embed some HTML code in your content, you can easily do so by switching over to that tab and copy-pasting it at the right place.
WordPress Pages To Static Website
Compared to many other blogging platforms, this unique facility of WordPress to create static pages is a boon for website creators. This, coupled with the fact that WordPress is freely distributed and can be easily installed onto a server, makes WordPress the CMS of choice for several website creators.
WordPress has a bunch of other features, which when combined with this ability to create Pages, comes in very handy for creating static websites – where typically the page content is not likely to change for a while. This makes it easy to create a website – which typically has some pages where the content is going to remain static for a while, like the ‘About’ page, or the ‘Home’ page or the ‘Products / Services’ page of your website.
In Conclusion…
WordPress is a terrific CMS of choice for when you want to create a website. With an easy way to create and style web pages, it is the best way to go when you want to make Websites for yourself or for your company.
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