Adding a new WordPress Post or Page

This is the sixth article of our  Series: From Zero to WordPress Rockstar where we will fill our website with some content.

What are WordPress Posts and WordPress Pages?

WordPress Pages are single pages which don’t need to be in a Categorie but they can be. WordPress Pages can have a parent page, a custom template and have discussions but are not shown in your post order like a WordPress post.

WordPress Posts are … well posts. They must be assigned to a category, can contain tags, comments and custom fields. In most cases WordPress Posts are shown chronological.

How to publish a new WordPress Page or WordPress Post

The act of publishing a WordPress Page or a new WordPress Post is actually mostly the same. When clicking in the admin menu either Add New under Posts or Add New under Pages there will be a window with a title input field and a textarea input field. Thats already the most important parts of creating a new Page or Post.

In the title field we enter the title of the post or page, not too complicated. Now let’s head down to the textarea where we can input our content. This is a fully featured WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Editor with buttons to make text bold, striked-through, underlined and so on. There are even more cool features in this editor such as text align (left, center, right), unordered and ordered lists, text color selector and a style selector. But I’ll let you discover that yourself.

One cool thing is on the right top of this area – two buttons labeled Visual and HTML. The Visual editor might be really great, but sometimes you might just want to edit the HTML of your post, when clicking HTML on the right top you will have a input box where HTML is accepted.

The next step would be assigning the Post to a Category or assign the Page to a parent page (not needed). When done a hit on Publish on the right side will publish your new content. But there are some other options you can choose from which are optional but still very useful:

Settings for WordPress Posts or WordPress Pages

Turn off comments

On some of your pages (like your contact page) you might not want to be comments allowed. On the top right of the screen there is the Screen Options button which opens on click and reveals some further options. Enable Discussion by checking the checkbox. Now you can see a new box appeared under your textarea labeled Discussion. Here you can disable Comments and Trackbacks on this Post or Page.

Insert Images to your Posts

On top of your WYSIWYG editor you will see four icons next to Upload/Insert which let you upload and insert a image to your post or page. When you have uploaded your image you can set the size, alignment, title, description and link url for your image. After hitting the button Insert into Post your image will appear in your WYSIWYG editor.

Schedule a Post

This is really handy. Sometimes I just have more time to write posts then on other days, so whenever i have a lot of time on my hand i create two or three articles, but i do not want to publish all of them right away. WordPress offers and option to Schedule our post and publishes it on the date and time we want. On the right side there is the Publish box with three buttons Save Draft, Preview and Publish. You will see the line Publish: immediately there with an Edit link next to it. Click on that Edit link and you will be given a date picker to pick a date when you want your post published. After that, simply hit Schedule and WordPress will handle the rest for you.

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