WordPress allows you to work with two types of documents at the same time – posts and pages. I will use this opportunity to explain in a few words how they differ.

Posts include most of the documents you will ever upload to your site. These can be short news, notices, comments, but also complete articles that deal with a specific topic in detail. On the contrary, pages usually contain data that rarely changes, what is used in the long term. A typical example of this is contents such as menus, which are usually placed at the top or at the foot of the document. The same applies to sections that contain basic information about the owner of the site or his contacts. As an example, I will use a page like this and post information about the author and the general purpose of this site.

You can create a new page in two ways. The first involves the use of the Pages menu, which means that it is enough to click on the item of the same name and select the Add New option. The second method is even simpler, so I will click on the New option and immediately switch from Page to the so-called Page Editor. As you can see, it is almost no different from the Post Editor you have used until now, although there are no categories and tags in it because the pages represent independent elements and cannot be classified on any basis. Admittedly, there is a hierarchical relationship between them (Parent – Child), but more will be said about that in the lessons that follow. For now, it is enough to know that these parameters are located in the section called Page Attributes.

Since I mentioned that this page will include basic information about the site itself, it would not be bad if I entered About as the title and immediately move on to entering its content. In order not to waste time, I will download everything I need from a Word document and use the Paste function to complete this part of the work. At the same time, it is possible to make minor corrections so that in the end the complete text is transferred to WordPress. Unfortunately, I lost all the hyperlinks in the transfer, so I have to go back to Word and manually transfer all the necessary information. For that, I need to right-click on the appropriate part of the text and select the Copy Hyperlink option from the menu. If I then select the same segment in WordPress, it will not be difficult for me to click on this icon and start the Insert Link function. I have to repeat the same procedure a few more times, because this document contains several hyperlinks.

Since I finished editing the text part in this way, I can move on to the images. To begin with, I will set the so-called featured image, but I have to remind you that its effect largely depends on the chosen topic. In my case, this will not be a problem, so I can immediately click on the Set featured image option and immediately proceed to adding a new illustration. This implies the use of the Upload files function, so I will click on the button of the same name so that in the next step I can choose one of the images that are on my disk. It will be automatically transferred to the server, so I just need to insert the title and an additional description in the form of alternative text. If I then click on the Set featured image button, the page will be complete, so I can check what I have achieved. This can be done by clicking the Publish button, so I will immediately apply this function and switch from Visit Site to the final view.

It is very important to remember that when you add a new page, a new item is automatically created in the main menu. It is precisely for this reason that a link called About appeared at the top of the screen, so I can click on it and display what I am most interested in at the moment. As you can see, the selected photo is at the top, and below it is the complete text. Another function is automatically added to the end of the page, which in this case means that there is a special field for entering comments. I don’t need it, so I’ll make sure it’s removed immediately. To that end, I need to click on the Edit Page option and select the Screen Options button to display additional parameters. If I then activate the section called Discussion, I will be able to turn off the Allow comments and Allow Trackbacks options. In the end, I just need to refresh the entire page with Update and display the final result. As you can see, there is no longer a comment field at the bottom, which is exactly what I wanted to achieve.

I believe that after this you have understood how the Page Editor works and that it is not necessary for me to show you the functions for formatting text or inserting illustrations. Using them, you can very easily design the entire page and fully adapt it to your needs.