Learning How to Use UH WordPress


Creating and Using Pages

Pages are for non-chronological content: pages like "About" or "Contact" would be common examples. Pages live outside of the normal blog chronology, and are often used to present timeless information about yourself or your site — information that is always relevant. You can use Pages to organize and manage the structure of your website content.

In addition to the common “About” and “Contact” pages, other examples include "Copyright", "Disclosure", "Legal Information", "Reprint Permissions", "Company Information", or "Accessibility Statement".

Adding a New Page

  1. Log in to your WordPress Administration Screen (Dashboard).
  2. In the left navigation pane, click the 'Pages' tab.
  3. Click the 'Add New' sub-tab.
  4. Start filling in the blanks: enter your page title in the upper field, and enter your page body content in the main page editing box below it.
  5. When you are ready, click 'Publish'.

 

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Page Sidebar Settings

Located on the right side of the Editor screen, this panel is used to customize key aspects of the content being published.

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Status & Visibility

Visibility 

When published, this determines if the post or page is:

  • Public – visible to everyone 
  • Private – only visible to site admins and editors
  • Password Protected – Only those with the password will see the post. You choose the password.

Publish

"Immediately" is chosen by default. 

Click on immediately to backdate the post or change it to a date in the future. That will schedule the post to publish at a different time.

To change the date or time, use the calendar.  

  • Click to select.
  • Click the right or left arrows to select other months in the past or the future.
  • Click the desired day to select it
  • Navigate with the keyboard
    • Hitting the Enter key selects the date in focus.
    • The ←/→ arrow keys move backward (left) or forward (right) by one day.
    • The ↑/↓ arrow keys move backward (up) or forward (down) by one week.
    • The PgUp/PgDn keys move backward (PgUp) or forward (PgDn) by one month.The Home/End keys go to the first (home) or last (end) day of a week.
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Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your post or page. These are used to link to the post in another blog, email or on a social network.


View Page
The link here is the URL of the story when it’s published. You have to save the post or page before editing part of the URL.
URL Slug
Once the post or page is saved as a draft, edit the end of the URL here. The URL slug is automatically filled in as a URL-friendly version of your post/page title.
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Featured Images (also sometimes called Post Thumbnails) are used in different ways depending on the theme. Many themes use this image to represent the post on the homepage. 

To set the Featured Image, drag an image from your computer and drop it in the gray box.

Set featured image area in Page editor

Another way is to click Set featured image, which opens a section where you upload a new image, or select an image from your Media Library. 

Featured image upload screen through Media Gallery

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Page Attributes

This section sets Page parents pages and changes the order of your Pages.


Parent Page
Similar to category parents on a Post, this allows a hierarchy for Pages.
Order
This sets the order in which your Pages are displayed in the Page Admin screen.
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Organizing Your Pages

Just as you can have subcategories within your Categories, you can also have subpages within your Pages, creating a hierarchy of pages.

For example, a WordPress site for a multi-campus department of University of Hawaii may feature an individual Page for each campus. Under the Page titled "Campus Locations" would be subpages for University of Hawaii at Hilo, University of Hawaii at Manoa, University of Hawaii at West Oahu, Hawaii Community College, Honolulu Community College, Kapiolani Community College, Kauai Community College, Leeward Community College, Maui College, and Windward Community College. Another parent Page "Programs" would feature programs of Certificate of Completion, Associate's Degree, and Master's Degree.

The structure of the pages on the site would then look like this.

  • Campus Locations
    • University of Hawaii at Hilo
    • University of Hawaii at Manoa
    • University of Hawaii at West Oahu
    • Hawaii Community College
    • Honolulu Community College
    • Kapiolani Community College
    • Kauai Community College
    • Leeward Community College
    • Maui College
    • Windward Community College
  • Programs
    • Certificate of Completion
    • Associate's Degree
    • Master's Degree

 

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To Create a Subpage

  1. Log in to your WordPress Administration Screen (Dashboard).
  2. In the left navigation pane, click the'Pages' tab.
  3. Click the 'Add New' sub-tab.
  4. In the right-hand settings sidebar, click the 'Page Parent' drop-down menu. The drop-down menu contains a list of all the Pages already created for your site.
  5. Select the appropriate parent Page from the drop-down menu to make the current Page a child Page.
  6. Add your page content to the subpage.
  7. Click 'Publish' when ready.

When your Pages are listed, the Child Page will be nested under the Parent Page. The Permalinks of your Pages will also reflect this Page hierarchy.

In the above example, the Permalink for the UH Hilo Page would be:

http://www.hawaii.edu/sitename/campus-locations/university-of-hawaii-at-hilo

You also have the option of shortening the defaulted Permalink to something shorter, such as

http://www.hawaii.edu/sitename/campus-locations/hilo


by editing the Permalinks on the page.

 

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Changing the URL of Your Pages

To change the URL part (also referred to as "slug") containing the name of your Page, use the 'Edit' button under the Page title on the Edit screen of the particular Page.

 

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