WordPress Step by Step Tutorial Part 10 – Creating Pages (Not Blog Posts)
OK, you know what? We are going to make our blog public in 2 more tutorials. First, this one on creating non-blog post pages, and then a second on prepping your blog for public consumption.
I have built up a reasonable body of work here on this blog, and noticed actually while searching for something else to do with WordPress that this blog appeared(albeit, well down in the search results.)
So what is left to do before this blog is ready for the general public? One is an “About” page. This is a page that tells people about the proprietor of the site they are visiting. Maybe a little background, a picture, a biography, whatever you want.
For the purposes of this tutorial, and because I don’t really want a lot of information on my “about” page I will keep mine short.
Now because, we are not doing a blog post, you will actually not be able to use Windows Live Writer to create and edit your post. So we will log into the admin section of our blog and select Pages. As you will see their is already an About page created. This is their by default. Select “edit” and this opens the page up in the WordPress editor. I am going to change the header/title to “About Me” just to make a change that we will see and replace the standard text that came with WordPress with my own:
Nothing fancy, just a starting point that I can add to at a later date. As with many of the other features of WordPress, there is much more beyond what I have discussed with Pages, and I encourage you to read more as always at the WordPress Codex , or search via your favourite search engine for other WordPress information. One of the great things about WordPress is the size of the community and the terrific amount of help their is available out on the interweb.
Next time, we finalize the blog for a public launch, but don’t worry that doesn’t mean we are finished with it. This is really literally just the beginning.