A page is way to add content so that it appears when you click on a button for a section in the navigation bar. The date that a page is published is not posted on the website. Pages are generally content that does not need to be updated regularly.
General
To see a list of pages on the website, under the section Pages, click on Pages. A web page will appear with all the pages and options to edit them.
To create a new page, under the section Pages, click on Add new. Enter a title and content for your page. Click Preview Changes, found at the right of the text box, this will allow you to see the changes you have made without making them public on the site. If you want to make the information public, click Publish. In order to add the page to your website, you will now need to edit the navigation bar under Appearance –> Menu.
To delete a page, under the section Pages, click on Edit Pages. A web page will appear with all the pages and options to edit them. Click on Trash underneath the title of the page you would like to delete. In order to remove the link to the page from the navigation bar, you will need to edit Menu Bar. To access the Menu bar, click on Appearance, and click on Menu See the guide’s section on Webpage Layout for more information.
To edit a page, under the section Pages, click on Pages. A web page will appear with all the pages and options to edit them. Click on Edit under the name of the page that you would like to edit. Edit the post under the tab Visual or HTML. Click Update.
Multimedia
To add an image or other media file to a page on the website, when editing a page or a post you will see beside the words Upload/Insert: multimedia symbol (
) and a form symbol(
). Click on the Multimedia Symbol to upload a media file. You will be given a choice of 4 options: From Computer, From URL, Media Gallery, and Next GEN Gallery.If you want to upload a file from your computers hard drive, select the From Computer tab, click on Select File and select the appropriate file from you computer. If you want to upload a file from the internet, select From URL, copy the appropriate URL into the URL box, and give the file a title. You can set the alignment you want for the picture.
Each WordPress site also has the option of storing up to 500mb of data in the Media Gallery. To access your Media Gallery, click on Media on the left hand side menu. You will be given the options to view Library or Add New. Click Add New at the top of the page, Click Select File and select the file from your hard drive. Using the Media Gallery will help you to organize all your media and give you easy access to media as you need it.
To edit how an image appears on the page, after you select your file, you will be given the option to adjust your appropriate alignment and size. To edit the title of your link to your media file, edit the section Title. Click Insert.
Link
To add a URL hyperlink to a page, when editing a page or a post (news item/blog/press release), under the visual tab you can add a hyperlink to the text by highlighting the text you want to use to create the link and then clicking on the connected chain from the menu bar or by entering ALT + SHIFT + A. This will open a window where you can edit or add a URL. If you would like the link to open in a new window for the option target, select to open the link in a new window.
To add an email address as a hyperlink, when editing a page, click on the HTML tab and then insert your email in this code.
<a href=”mailto:you@youremail.com”> you@youremail.com</a>
Editing options
For editing options for a post or a page, when editing a page or a post (news item/blog/press release) you can reveal more formatting options by clicking on the show/hide kitchen sink icon (two to the left of the ? in the blue circle) or by entering ALT + SHIFT + Z. These options include: underlining, indenting, special characters, colours, fonts and assistance with pasting content.
Photo Page
To add a Flickr account to a Photos page on your website, update the page with the Flickr account by adding the Flickr RSS URL for your Flickr account. To find the Flickrpress RSS URL for your website, open your Flickr account in a different window ( ex.http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobrae/), scroll to the bottom of the page, right click on Latest and select Copy Link location.
Click on Pages under Pages and click edit under the page Photos. If you have a photos page, delete the existing URL in the Flickrpress code (in bold below) and paste your Flick RSS URL in its place.
If you do not have a photos page, click Add New below pages. Click on the tab HTML and paste the Flickr RSS URL.
Before the Flickr RSS URL paste (omit /*** and ***/):
Your page should look like this an example with Bob Rae’s Flickr RSS URL (omit /*** and ***/).
[/***flickrpress type="rss" url= "http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=32597608@N06&lang=en-us&format=rss_200" columns="5" count="40" lightbox="true" paging="true"***/ ]
And will display the photos on your website like this:
