Creating Your First Web Page In WordPress

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Okay, so we understand what's going on in the administration area. But now we're going to start with publishing, we're going to create pages. So we'll go into pages. And remember, WordPress gave us a sample page, we're going to ignore that. We can delete it later. But now we're going to add new.

So let's do about us. So we'll type in the title of the page at the top here. Remember, that's very important for search engines. And here, we put the content. But before we do, notice the permalink, the URL that has been created, that is where you'll find this web page. So I'm just going to get some text for this page.

And here it is. I'm going to paste it in here. So you could type that in You could paste it in. So what you can do if you're editing a page is click here, Save Draft. And then WordPress will save that as a draft, but it won't publish it, you can have a look to see what it will look like when it is published by clicking on preview here on the right. That will open a new window.

And there it is, there is the About Us page with all the text in its parts. If we go back to that permalink and copy that, and paste it into a browser. We'll see that that page can't be found. And that's because it isn't published. But we're going to publish it now. Then we go back to this page that can't be found.

Reload this page or refresh. And there it is. Now we have a published web page at our domain.com slash About hyphen us. This is what really excited me about WordPress. When I first got started, I remember about 10 years ago, I was creating pages with HTML, and having to copy and paste loads of HTML markup on every page, even though it was always the same. And it would take me a long time to create a new page.

And then I read an article about how to get found on Google, as Google was becoming of increasing importance at that time in 2005. And the article said, you should create loads of great new content, lots of web pages, with lots of content on it. And I discovered WordPress, and I discovered the ability to create pages so easily. We've created a page in five seconds there. And that would take a considerably long time. If we were to write the HTML and the You want to have a look at the HTML, go in Chrome Developer view source.

And there it is. So imagine having to create all that HTML. We didn't. All we had to do was write a title and paste in some content, and click Publish. And now we've published a web page on the worldwide web and is viewable by millions of people. My name is Rob coven.

I'll see you in the next video.

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