Creating Page(s) In WordPress

Pages In WordPress:

Here is what pages are in WordPress:

Pages are for static content such as “About Us”, “Contact Us” and so on. Using a page is a better way to publish such information to visitors.
Pages can be organized into pages and subpages.
Pages can also be displayed in the sidebar using the Pages widget (Appearance -> Widgets).
Pages cannot be associated with Categories and cannot be assigned Tags. The organizational structure for Pages comes only from their hierarchical interrelationships, and not from Tags or Categories.
Pages can use different - Page Templates - which can include Template Files, Template Tags and other PHP code.
Pages are not associated with a date/time.

Create A New Page:

To create a new page in WordPress 3.X.X login to WordPress as administrator, by simply entering the url_of_your_website/wp-admin in your Browser. Enter the appropriate username and password {which was provided while installing Wordpress} and then click on Log In as shown in Diagram 1.

Diagram 1

After logging in as WordPress Admin, a Dashboard page opens as shown in Diagram 2.
The Dashboard provides access to different WordPress functions and features.

Diagram 2

WordPress CMS provides three ways for creating a new page. You can follow any one of them to create a new page.

Select New Page from the dropdown menu in the upper right corner of an administration screen as shown in Diagram 3.

Diagram 3

In the left menu, locate the link Pages. Click Pages. From the drop down menu that appears click on Pages and then click on Add New as shown in Diagram 4.

Diagram 4

In the left menu, locate the link Pages. Click Pages. From the drop down menu that appears click on Add New as shown in Diagram 5.

Diagram 5

“Add New Page” screen is displayed as shown in Diagram 6.

From here you can, add content to page, save the page as draft, publish the page, set the page as sub-page, assign a template to a page and can change the order of the page to be displayed.

Diagram 6

Enter the title of the page in the title text box. In our case, “About Us” is set as title as shown in diagram 7.

Click the HTML tab, enter the content in the page editing area as shown in Diagram 7. You can compose your page either in Visual or in HTML view.

Diagram 7

Click Visual tab to view the content of the page as shown in Diagram 8.

Diagram 8

On the right hand side publish box, click Publish as shown in Diagram 9.

This box contains buttons that control the state of your page. The Published status means the page has been published on your blog and is visible for users. Draft means the page has not been published and remains a draft for you. If you select a specific status and click the update page or Publish button, that status is applied to the page.

Diagram 9

“Page published” message is displayed as shown in Diagram 10.

Diagram 10

In the front end of website, Click the title of the page created as shown in Diagram 11. In our case, click About Us menu item.

Diagram 11

The page is displayed as shown in Diagram 12.

Diagram 12

Edit A Page:

Hover the cursor over the title of the page and click Edit as shown in Diagram 13.
OR
Click on the title of the page to open it into an editable mode.

Diagram 13