Wordpress for beginners, step by step, Part 5

Work pressure is still pretty heavy, but I do need a break, and I will have one.

For your convenience, click here to go to the Wordpress tutorial list , which will provide a convenient starting point for you to follow through from.

The image below will show you where to find the access points to Posts and pages on your dashboard. Note that the Posts button is placed second from the top, and the Pages button is the fifth button.

This particular post is about the one thing that upset me most about Wordpress, and which, once it fell into place, made so much sense. In the Wordpress world not much importance is given to Pages. Pages are like the poor cousins in a family, they're there, everyone knows they are, but no-one talks about them.



Posts are what makes a blog go around. Posts are what bloggers add to their Wordpress website to get their current most important earth shattering news out to the world. The image shows you where to find the access points to your Posts options.

When writing your first post, relax, it is easier to do than it is to describe. If you're able to read this, you will be able to post a Post. 

You click on 'Add New', and when it opens, just fill in the fields. Thats it. I'll tell you what else needs doing in a separate post about Wordpress 'Posts'.


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A wordpress Page is pretty important to your website. Create your pages to tell your visitors about yourself, your business, your cat, whatever. Your Wordpress pages need to be viewed as being the backbone of the rest of your wordpress website, as it needs to be there to support everything else you say. Your Pages add solidity, as they very seldom change.

A cautionary word about the Pages. By the very design of the Wordpress system, it does kind of discriminate against Pages. Typically, pages are in a horizontal navigation bar mear the top of the page.

This does not allow for too many pages, so it is essential to plan your pages very well. I have found several themes that won't wrap (go to a new line) the navigation bar, but push the navigation bar so far off to the right that the website is lost.

It is possible to add a pages widget to a sidebar, but this too has its drawbacks, and we will look at that later when talking about widgets and plugins. For now, use your pages, but be conservative.

The image above will show you where to find the access points to both Pages options.

A full list of Wordpress step by step tutorials for beginners is here: Wordpress tutorial list