What is Page in WordPress? How to Create and Add a Page

In this article, we will know what is Page in WordPress is and how it is created.? By default, WordPress comes with two different types of content, posts, and pages. Although they look similar to the WordPress dashboard, they serve different purposes for your website. In this article, we will learn about WordPress pages like how to create a page and how to add, update and delete a new page

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What are pages in WordPress

As a post, WordPress pages are another type of post that will be pre-created in WordPress. Usually, add content that does not need to be updated regularly on pages. Pages represent static content, such as the “About Us” page, “TOCs”, “Contact Us”, “Write to Us” etc.

How To Add and Publish a New page

To create a WordPress page, log in to your dashboard administrator using your login details (username and password).
Move your cursor over the “Pages” menu item in the navigation menu located on the left side of the dashboard click “Add New“.

The text “Enter title here”. Enter a title for your page in this topic field.
After adding a title, the next section is to create page content. Here’s how you can do that with both the former editor and the Block / Gutenberg editor.
Now once you complete the content writing in the page you need to publish the page. So, to publish the page you need to click on the publish button as we see in the picture below.

Not only publishing you can draft the page or you can even schedule the publication.

How To Edit WordPress page

So, once you have moved the page to draft or you have published a page now to edit the page you need to follow these steps.

So, to edit the pages you need to come to the lists of pages hover over the page title and click on the edit icon. Once you click there you will again go to the editor again.

So, now you will be in the editor and as soon as you complete editing the page then make it live you will see the publish icon will change to update. So, Update the new content and see it live on the website.

How To Delete WordPress page

So, learning how to delete a WordPress page is equally important as learning how to write a page. But fortunately, the process to delete a Page is way easier.

To delete a page you first need to hover over the page title and click on the trash icon to delete it. Now your post will move to the trash section.

WordPress pages vs posts

Posts	Pages
the post’s content types are generally Chronological in nature.	On pages, the content types are Hierarchical generally.
We can use tags in the posts to rank them or to improve SEO.	We cannot use tags on pages and so are not typically good for doing SEOs.
We can use categories to group the blogs into particular sections.	We can use page attributes to make any page parent and put a page under it.
The use of archive pages like different pages for authors etc is there.	No, such things are present here.
In posts, the blogs can be added to RSS feeds.	Pages do not support RSS feeds.
We cannot change the full custom URL for posts we can just change the slug here.	We can change and add a full custom URL.
We cannot use a single post as a homepage.	We have to choose a page as the main home page.

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