How to add, edit and delete page, category, post, tag

   Adding a New Web Page

To add a new web page:

1. Click on the Pages menu in the sidebar and select “Add New.“
2. Enter your page title in the top box
3. Add the page content into the WordPress Editor.
4. In the right sidebar, you will see a box labelled “Page Attributes.”  Here you can specify a parent page and a template.

•  Parent Page:  If your new page belongs on a sub-menu beneath another page, you should specify that page as it’s Parent.
•  Template:  You may also choose a template if your theme has multiple templates; however, most pages will use the default template.

5. Make sure you click the Publish button to save your changes and make them live. If you are not ready to go live, you can also choose to save your page as a draft.

Important Note:  Some themes are set up to automatically add your page to the menu and others require that an Administrative user manually add the page to the menu.

Updating a Web Page

The process for updating an existing web page is basically the same as adding a new page.

Click on the Pages menu to bring up a list of your pages.

When you hover over the page that you want to edit, a menu will appear below that page as shown in the screen-shot below.  Click on the Edit link to edit your web page.

When the web page opens, you can edit your title(1) and your page content(2) as desired.  Make sure you click the Update button (3) to save your changes and make them live.

Adding a Blog Post

One of the great things about WordPress is that its interface is very consistent. So if you already know how to add/edit web pages, then this tutorial will seem like a review. There are however a few “extra” things that you need to do when adding a blog post.

To add a new blog article, click on the Posts menu in the sidebar and select “Add New.”

1. Enter your post title in the top box 

2. Add the  content into the WordPress Editor 

3. In the sidebar, you need to choose a category for the article to appear in. 

4. You should also specify tags for your article (Make sure you check out the tutorial on Organizing your Blog with Categories & Tags) 

5. If your theme uses Excerpts, you can specify a shortened version of the article in the Excerpts box. 

6. Make sure you press the Publish button to save your changes and make them live! 

Updating a Blog Post

The process for updating a blog post is basically the same as adding a new post.

Click on the Post menu to bring up a list of your articles.

When you hover over the article that you want to edit, a menu will appear below that page as shown in the screen-shot below.  Click on the Edit link to edit your post.

When the post opens, you can edit your title(1) and your page content(2) as desired.

You can also change the categories and tags in side bar if necessary.

Make sure you click the Update button (3) to save your changes and make them live.

Deleting a Page or Post

To delete a web page or blog post, click on the appropriate menu (Pages or Posts) and hover over the one you wish to delete..

On the hover menu, you will see a Trash option.  Click this to move the page to the trash.

Note that the file is just moved to the trash and is not actually deleted.  You can go into the trash folder to restore a page if you accidentally delete a page.

To get to the trash folder go to either the Pages section or the Posts, depending upon what you want to delete.  At  the top of the page, there is a horizontal menu (1) that allows you to filter the page to view:  All Pages, Published Pages, Draft Pages or Trash.  Click on the Trash link.

To RESTORE(2):  Hover over the page you want to restore and click on the Restore link.  This will restore the page to it’s former state – either Published or Draft.

To PERMANENTLY DELETE(2):  Hover over the page you want to delete and click on the Delete Permanently link.

You can also check the box prior to multiple pages and use the “Bulk Action” drop-down box to Restore or Permanently Delete multiple pages at once.

In addition, you can ”Empty the Trash(3)” to delete all of the pages in the trash at once.