This is the seventh in the WordPress Admin Basics series. Each we’re taking a look at a section of the WordPress Admin area giving you some solid skills of how to use it and some extra hints and tips! So far we’ve looked at the WordPress Dashboard, Settings, Posts, Media and Links.
WordPress Pages
Luckily the way you add and edit pages is pretty much identical to the way posts are setup. The title, permalink, content, publish info etc. is all the same. What is different is that pages do not have categories or tags, instead their is a Page Attributes section.
WordPress Page Attributes
Page Attributes
Parent – you can choose to manage your pages by having a hierarchy. So one page can have many sub-pages.
Order – you can choose what order your page is displayed in on the menu.
When you site is first set up any published pages will appear automatically in the menu, the pages will appear in the order they are created. You can change this order by using the Order box. Pages which have parents will then appear in drop-down menus. If your theme has Custom Menu functionality you can override all this and make up your own menu of pages, posts, tags and categories as well as custom links.
Discussion
If you allow comments on your site and your theme does not allow you to turn them off pages you can override the default setting on each page here. You can easily allow or disallow both comments and pingbacks/trackbacks.
Revisions
Sometimes it is easy to make a mistake and you want to go back to an earlier version. WordPress keeps a track of each version you save as well as some of its own autosaves. You can easily go back to an earlier version and look at it and compare it to the current version. If you prefer it you can easily restore it.
Both discussion and revisions are also available in the Post editor and you can show or hide these by using the Screen Options tab at the top right of the screen.
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