What are posts and pages?
WordPress allows you to add content to your site using ‘posts’ and ‘pages’. A post is a timely piece of content (eg an article, opinion piece or news update) that appears in your blog feed. A page is a static piece of content (eg an ‘About’ page, or page listing people or contact details), that usually appears in your site’s navigation menu.
Creating a post/page
Administrator, editor, author and contributor roles can all create post/pages.
Create a new post
- On the Dashboard, navigate to Posts > Add New.
- Give your post a title and add your content using the Visual Editor.
- Add your tags and categories.
- Preview your content.
- When you are happy with the end result, click Publish/Submit*.
Create a new page
- On the Dashboard, navigate to Pages > Add New.
- Give your page a title and add your content using the Visual Editor.
- Preview your content.
- When you are happy with the end result, click Publish/Submit*.
- If your site’s navigation menu is not set to add pages automatically, you may need to do this manually. Find out how to create and manage a custom menu (via EduBlogs).
*Contributor roles will have to submit their draft for review to an editor or administrator. Find out more about the difference between User Roles.
Editing a post/page
As an administrator or editor, you are able to edit any post/pages published or submitted for review by other blog contributors.
As an author, you are able to edit your own posts/pages, but not those written by others.
To edit a post, navigate to Posts > All posts and click on the Edit link under the post title you want to edit.
To edit a page, navigate to Pages > All pages and click on the Edit link under the page title you want to edit.
More about posts and pages
The Edublogs guide to posts and pages contains a full overview of posts and pages, the differences between them, and more instructions on managing content using them.