 Hello and welcome back. This is Michael again and in this training lesson. We're going to talk about pages now I'm going to assume that you have already watched the video on posts Which is what we're going to talk about in relationship to pages So if you haven't watched the post video already or aren't familiar with how posts work I would suggest that you watch that one first I'm starting here on the Nebraska libraries for website because it's a really great example of kind of how pages can show up And where they are and what their differences are between Or what the differences are between pages and posts Posts in this case are what show up here. So for example, welcome Osceola public library As I scroll down here weather woes welcome Elgin public library We'd like to know what you think these are all posts and in the post video I showed you how to create new posts and edit posts Pages are very similar when it comes to the editing function of them when it comes to creating and editing But they don't appear here in your blog or wherever your posts show up They actually show up somewhere else in this example. They show up up here across the top So about online training contact participating libraries looking for your library and want to participate are all Pages on this site as opposed to posts Now when you first sign up with us and you get your library's website now use Osceola here as an example Since they just went live recently your site will be pre-populated with some pages And they are about us calendar contact for kids and teens and Nebraska resources These are pre-populated and you can change them as you wish you can add them You can rearrange them and we'll go through each one of these I'm going to show you one other example here real quick if we go to the Republican Valley Library website You'll see that they have added some additional pages such as on-demand Periodical policies and policies is one that we do recommend you put up on your own site print resources and services so One of the things you're going to notice is that where they show up in Your site really depends on your theme So in this theme they're showing up here under the banner in this theme They're also showing up under the banner, but in the theme we're using for the project blog They kind of show up here across the top So you want to keep this in mind when you are picking your theme as to where the menu linking to your pages Actually goes so what I'm going to do next here is I'm going to go ahead and log into my site and Posts as I mentioned we talked about earlier and under there you can see all posts and add new in this case We're going to go to pages and you also have an all pages and add new Submenus, so if we just go ahead and select all pages what you'll see here It's very similar to the list that you will see when you look at your list of posts But in these case these are the pages As you can see here, we've got some pages already set up and what I'm going to do right off the top Is I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to select and add new I'm going to add a new page And let's say I want to go ahead and create a page about my library's policies I'm just going to go ahead and give it a title and then Your policies you probably have them as word documents already maybe some PDFs and if you want to keep them as PDFs Well, you can go ahead and link to those if you want refer to some of the other training videos for that If you have them as word documents, and you like to put them in here One thing I'll just point out is you can paste from a word document Just go ahead and use this button if that second row isn't there You can turn it on and off using what's called the kitchen sink button. I believe I also covered those in the Posts video, so I'm just going to go ahead and say this is some sample policy text Why can't type today and well, let's go ahead and fix that spelling error Oops Ponzi. That's not what I wanted Okay, can you tell I'm doing these lives? So we've got some sample policy text You can insert graphics you can do anything you wanted a page that you can do in a post We'll talk about parents in just a moment, but I'm going to go ahead and click publish Excuse me, and then at this point I can view the page or I can view the whole site I'm going to go ahead and view the whole site here to take a look at what we've got now I've created this new page and it is showing up up here in The list of menu items and it seems to be appearing third or fourth depending on how you count here By default pages will appear in your menu alphabetically a few moments I'll show you how you can change those orders around now What you will notice when we actually go to a page, which I'll go to right now I'll go to that policies page. I just created it's going to look just like the rest of your site It's going to have the the banner and header across the top It's going to have any sidebars either to the left or the right that your theme may have But in this case it is just you can think of it as being presented like a post But it doesn't appear in the list of posts. It just stands on its own so you want to use posts for things like Current events news things like that you use pages for content that is pretty darn static Policies the contact page the calendar page You may update the content of those pages, but you don't really want them to move around You don't aren't putting them into a hierarchy of posts that sort of thing So when you are creating content think posts for kind of dated up-to-date material and pages for more Content that is considered static or long term would maybe be a good way to think about it a Few other things to think about when it comes to posts is That I'm going to go back to my all pages here just to kind of reset us When you look at your all pages list you can hover over and do an edit a quick edit trash and view just like you can with posts You'll see the author over here You'll see any comments and you'll see when it was published so you also notice here This one is listed as a draft so just like with posts you can create draft pages and come back to work out on them a little later Now one of the things I want to point out is That you can kind of create nested lists and if I go over back to Osceola's page for just a moment Notice as I hover over about us about us is a page But then they've put their policies and their staff and board members underneath that So what I'm going to show you here is let's say I want my policies page to be under about sort of like Osceola did Now there's a couple of ways to get to this I'm just going to go ahead and do kind of the most direct way here I'm going to go back and edit my page and then over here under page attributes I'm going to look at parents and right now it says no parents So that means it's at the same level as all of those other pages But if I go ahead and select I want the parents of this page to be the about page and then go ahead and update All right, and now if I go back to my site and I refresh Notice now about has dis or excuse me policies has disappeared from this menu But if I hover over about it actually doesn't show up. So now I'm trying to figure out what exactly went wrong with this The one possible thing I can think of is it didn't update properly. So let's go ahead and check that and we'll go ahead and go home and then hover over about and That isn't working. Okay. Well, the one thing I can think of is it's possible that this theme does not support nested pages So if that is something you're going to want to do you're going to want to test that with your theme as you can see here That doesn't seem to be supported in my theme But that is how you would do and that is exactly what Osceola did here to get their policy pages under about us And just to show that that's technically been done if I go back to all pages You will see here that policy has moved itself up the list It is now under about and it's got this little dash in front of it And that means that about is the parent of the policies page So kind of lesson learned here for both you and I is that this feature may not actually be supported by all themes So choose your theme carefully The last thing I want to mention about pages we talked about them by default going into alphabetical order You can change that order around. I'm going to go ahead and go back to about here And I'm going to go ahead and edit that and the last thing I want to point out here is this order By default all pages are going to list an order of zero However, if you want to put them in a particular order, you can go ahead and number them So if you have seven pages and you don't want them in alphabetical order You would go through and number each page one two three four five six seven And then they will be presented in that order regardless of the letters that they start with One other quick place you can see that if I go back to my all pages If I click on the quick edit for one of these you can see here You can also change the parent as you would like and you can change the order so I could go ahead and say I want this to be Page number six go ahead and update that and now when it's displayed on my page I'm almost hesitant to show this to you, but let's go ahead. It should work notice that now that that is the sixth item It's moved all the way back down to the end of the list and you can again number them appropriately to get them into the order You want so just a quick review one pages are more for long-term Static information that you want presented on your website versus posts which are more up-to-date newsworthy sort of information You can create new edit existing and save drafts of any pages you want We have pre-populated some for you, but you are welcome to edit those as you see fit You can change the order that the pages are displayed in the menu by go by editing the page order field and providing that your A theme allows for it. You can go ahead and Nest those pages and create kind of drop-down menus in your site So that's the introduction to pages and how they work if you have any questions as always just feel free to go ahead and Leave a comment on this page or with this video and I'll do my best to answer your question and help you out Thanks for watching