How to add pages and menus to a WordPress site

1. Start a Blog:
From Hosting to Posting
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2. Module 6: Pages, Menu
• Pages
• About
• Contact – Contact Form Plugin
• Resources
• Menu
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3. Pages
The two primary locations for content on
your site are Posts and Pages. Pages contain
static content, meaning content that
generally remains the same after it is
created.
Standard pages you’ll find on many sites
include:
• About Page
• Contact Page
• Resources Page
To create a page, click on Pages in the
Dashboard and Add New.
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4. Pages
Add a title to the first field on your page.
Add text or other content to the large field
below the editing icons.
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5. Pages
After you enter a Title, WordPress creates a
Permalink for the page. A permalink is the
permanent URL for a post or page on your
site.
After you enter the content, click the blue
Publish button to create your page.
This page content is filled with Lorem Ipsum
which is dummy text from the printing and
typesetting industry. The point of using
Lorem Ipsum is that it has a somewhat
normal distribution of letters that fills a page
without the distraction of readable text.
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6. Pages
When your page is published, click on View
Page near the top of the screen to see how
your page actually appears.
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7. Pages
To create the Contact Page, click the Add
New button and add a title.
The Ninja Forms plugin adds an option to
your Page screen to add a form short code to
your page. Clicking the Add Form button
above the editing icons will cause a popup to
appear. Click the dropdown arrow to select a
form. Click the blue Insert button to add the
shortcode to your content field.
Click the blue Publish button.
A shortcode is a WordPress-specific code
that lets you easily add specific content to a
post or page. Shortcodes can embed files or
create objects that would normally require
lots of complicated code in just one line.
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8. Pages
Click the View Page link to see that a simple
contact form appears on the page, which is
generated by the shortcode.
Create a Resources Page in the same way you
created the About page. You will add content
to this page later.
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9. Menu
Once you have created Pages, you are ready
to create a Menu.
Click on Appearance in the Dashboard and
then click Menus.
Enter a menu name in the field and click the
blue Create Menu button.
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10. Menu
To add Pages to the Menu, check the boxes in
front of the names of the pages.
Click Add to Menu.
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11. Menu
The menu items will appear in the box on the
right. You can drag and drop the items to
change the order.
Click the blue Save Menu button.
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12. Menu
Where and how the menu appears will
depend upon your theme.
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13. Menu
In addition to Pages, you can also add Posts,
Custom Links, and Categories to your Menu.
Links to specific posts can be added to the
menu. Three tabs, Most Recent, View All,
and Search, determines what posts are
displayed for selection as a menu item.
A custom link which you define along with a
Label can be added.
Categories that you have assigned to your
posts can also be added. Use the three tabs,
Most Recent, View All, and Search, to see
categories to select.
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