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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 Tutorial

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.
  3. Click on the “Add new page” button.
  4. Choose from a large collection of readymade page layouts, or click the “Blank page” button to create an empty page.
  5. Give your page a title by typing it in the box at the top that says “_Add title_“.
    • If you selected a page layout in step 4, a title will have been added for you. You can edit this title if you wish.
  6. Click on the + block inserter icon to add new content, or click on any block to edit existing content (learn how to use the WordPress editor here!)

Adjust the Page Settings

When working on a page, you’ll find the page settings in the sidebar on the right side of your screen.

If you do not have the sidebar on the right, click the Settings icon in the top right corner to bring up the settings. This icon looks like a square with two uneven columns:

The settings icon in the top right corner

At the top, the page’s title is shown. Click the ellipses (three dots) next to the page title to reveal the following options:

Below these options, you can set a featured image. This is a single image to represent the page. Learn more about featured images.

Below the featured image option, you’ll find the number of words in the page plus an estimated reading time and when the content was last edited.

Here’s more information about all the available page settings:

The Page Settings that appear when editing a page.

Page Settings Sidebar

Below these options, you can click to expand these additional settings:

Publish a Page

In the top right of the screen, above the page settings, you’ll find several options for your new page:

The options at the top right corner of the page or post editor, showing Save draft, Preview, and Publish.

Publish Page Toolbar

These options are:

Edit a Page

After publishing a page, you can return to the page to continue editing it:

  1. Visit your site’s dashboard.
  2. Click on Pages on the left side.
  3. Choose from one of the following links at the top of the dashboard:
  4. Locate your page in the list and click the title of it to open the editing screen.

When viewing your website publicly, you may also see a link that says “Edit”, “Edit page”, or “Edit this page” to quickly open the page editor. The availability of this link depends on your browser settings and your site’s theme, and can’t be removed.

The link will only show to you as the site owner, while logged into your account. It will not appear to your visitors — no visitor would have the power to edit your site.

A published page will show the following options at the top of the screen:

The options at the top right corner of the page or post editor, showing Preview and Save.

Published Page Toolbar Settings

Once you have published your page, you’ll want your website visitors to find it. There are several methods to do so:

A website typically displays a menu of pages for visitors to browse through. You can add any published page to your menu – see Add Links to a Menu to learn how.

Once you have published the page, you can generate a QR code for the published page in a couple of ways:

  1. From Jetpack settings in the page editor.
  2. Using browser tools. You can search for instructions specific to your browser in Google. For example, in the latest version of Chrome, you can visit a specific page and select more options at the top right by clicking ⠇ → “Save and share” → “Create QR code” option. You can also get the QR code for your website using these steps by visiting the home page.

Every page has a unique URL you can use to share the page with the world. To find the page’s URL, take the steps below.

You can use the wp.me shortlink for any page, located under the Jetpack settings in the page editor. Learn more about shortlinks and how to find the shortlink for a page.

Option 2: Copy the URL for the Page

Visit your published page and copy the URL, or address, of the page. Follow these steps to navigate to the published page and copy the URL from your browser:

  1. Visit your site’s dashboard.
  2. Click on Pages on the left side.
  3. Hover your mouse over a published page and click the “View” link:

The "View" link in the Pages dashboard for a specific pages.

View Page

  1. Copy the page’s URL from your browser’s address bar:

The Address Bar of the browser highlighted.

Copy Page Address

  1. Paste the URL wherever you want to share a link to the page.

Set Your Homepage

To make your newly published page the first page visitors see when arriving on your site, you can set it as your site’s front page. See Set the Homepage to learn how.

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”:

The page's ID highlighted in the browser address bar.