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A website uses pages to display content – Home, About, and Contact are common examples of pages. You can have an unlimited number of pages on your WordPress.com website. This guide will show you how to create and manage the pages of your site.

Video overview

From the course: Create your website on WordPress.com

Create a new page

To add a new page to your website, take the following steps:

1. Visit your site’s dashboard.
2. Click on Pages on the left side.

1. Click the “Add page” button.
2. If prompted, select a starter pattern, or click the X in the top right to start with a blank page. Learn more about starter content.
3. Give your page a title by typing it in the box at the top that says, “_Add title_“.
4. Click on the + block inserter icon to add new content, or click on any block to edit existing content. Learn more about using the WordPress editor to create your page content.

Publish a page

When you publish a page, you make it available to your visitors and can add the page to site menus and other links. If your site is private or coming soon, you can still publish a page to use it in site menus, but unauthorized visitors won’t see it.

To publish your new page, follow these steps:

1. Create your page and add your content.
2. Customize your page’s settings with a featured image, excerpt, and more.
3. In the toolbar at the top of the editor, click the “Publish” button.
4. Review the pre-publish checks and click “Publish” again to publish your page.
   • If you have the pre-publish checks turned off, your page will be published based on your page settings.
5. Your page is now published.

Learn more about the options in the top toolbar of the WordPress Editor.

Add the page to your site

Now that you have created and published your new page, you’ll want to help visitors find the page on your site. There are a few ways to do that:

• Add the page to your menu.
• Make the page your site’s homepage.
• Link to the page across your site in text, buttons, and images.

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Edit a page

Once you have created a page, you can edit the page settings (featured image, publish status, etc.) and the content of the page at any time.

Edit a page or post’s settings

After you create a page or post, you can edit the settings to control how your content is shown to the world. In this guide, you will learn how to edit a page or post’s settings.

Edit a page or post’s content

After creating a page or post, you can edit its content anytime. This guide will show you how to update an existing page or post.

Once you have published a page or post, you’ll want your website visitors to find it. This guide outlines several methods for sharing a page or post. Learn how to share a page or post.

Find the page ID

You can find the page’s ID in your browser’s address bar after opening the page in the editor. For example, the page ID for the following example is “7683”: