Creating a Page
From the left sidebar select Pages > New Page
This will bring you to the page for adding a "New Page" which will be empty to begin with, it will look like the following:
To start adding content click on the "+" symbol, this will bring up the content block chooser.
Click on the type of content you would like to add, for the purpose of this guide I will select "Heading"
This will add a new block for typing your header inside, I have typed "This is a heading". as you can see there is now a "+" symbol above and below the heading block, this is because you can add more content in either of these positions, you can even rearrange them once you have created the blocks by hovering over a block and clicking the arrows handle that appears, you can either click this handle once and choose a position from the list or click and hold then drag the block to a new position
To remove a block click on the trash can and select delete.
You can add as many content blocks as you like to your page, using as many of the different kinds as you want and it will all still be responsive.
Here is where you set up your page title, url, meta content, template etc, it will look like this:
What everything means:
- Page/Meta Title - This is the title for your page, it will appear in the <title></title> tag on your page so will be picked up by search engines.
- Navigation Title - This is the title for your page that appears on the navigation bar.
- Meta Keywords - These appear in the meta tag in the section of your page, while it is starting to be phased out by search engines it is still widely used.
- Meta Description - This will appear description meta tag for your page, it will appear in any search listings in google, bing etc and is something that these search engines look for as a pointer towards what kind of content will be on the page.
- Page URL - The address for your page, if this was a contact page I would set this to "contact" and then the page can be accessed by visiting http://hoosk.org/contact. This cannot contain any special characters or spaces, you can however replace spaces with underscores for example if your page was "What We Do" then you could use "what_we_do" as the URL.
- Publish Page? - If this is set to yes then the page can be accessed on the website, if you set this to no then when visiting the URL for the page you will be presented by a "page not found" error. this allows you to temporarily disable a page without needing to delete it and create it again.
- Page Template - If you have set up custom templates in your theme then they will appear in this list and you can select them, "home" refers to "home.php" file, "page" - "page.php"
Once you are done click "Save"
Thats it! You have set up your first page!