Building your Site: Posts and Pages
Building your Site: Posts and Pages
To add content to your site, you can either use posts or pages. In this article, we’ll walk you through what the difference is between the two and how to use them.
What is a Post?
When you want to write content for your site, posts are an option. Posts will appear on the “blog” page of your site, but WordPress allows us to rename that page whatever we like. In a portfolio, your blog page might be renamed Projects, or on an organization’s page, you might call it Latest News. They are a good place to post the latest news or announcements about your organization, project, or new articles — any information that will be less relevant to your viewers as your course, organization, or work progresses.
Writing a Post
- From your site’s Dashboard, click on Posts > Add New in the left hand menu.
- Add a title and content to your post.
- You can include images and documents in your post using the Add Media button just above the visual editor box. You can also find more detailed instructions for adding images and other media, and embedding video.
- To see how your post will appear on your site before you publish it, click the Preview button. You can also click Save Draft to save your post and continue working on it later without making it visible on the site.
- To the right of the visual editor is the Publish box. When you’re ready for your post to be published on the site’s home page, click Publish. You’re done! You can now view your post on the site.
- If you’d like, you can “stick” a post to the top of a site so it remains at the top even after you add new posts. In the Publish box, click the Edit link next to Visibility: Public (see below). Check the box, “Stick this post to the front page” and click OK to save.
Students should check with their professors before making a post password protected or private.
What is a Page?
Pages can have the same content as posts but remain static instead of becoming chronological. Your pages will appear as links on your “Home” page. These links will usually appear in the header menu on your site and/or in the right-side menu on your site. To view a page, viewers will need to click the link for the respective page.
Creating Pages on your Site
- Go to your site Dashboard and click Pages > Add New in the left-hand menu.
- You will see a title line, a text box, and a formatting toolbar. Here you can enter a title for your page and the content that you would like to appear on your page. To modify your text (e.g., to change the font style, add a link, etc.), highlight the text that you want to change and click the appropriate button from the formatting toolbar. You also add images, audio, or video to your page by clicking the icon next to Upload/Insert.
- To see how your page will look before you publish it, click Preview in the right-hand menu. If you would like to continue working on your page and publish it later, click Save Draft in the right-hand menu
- Once you have finished adding content to your page, click Publish in the “Publish” section of the right-hand menu
