Pages are the permanent, structural parts of your website — Home, About, Services, Contact. This guide covers everything you'll ever need to do with them.
Viewing your pages
In the admin menu, click Pages.
You'll see a list of every page on your site, along with its status (Published, Draft) and the date it was last modified.
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The Pages list, showing titles, authors, and publish dates
Editing an existing page
From the Pages list, click the title of the page you want to change (or hover over it and click Edit).
Click directly on any text to edit it, just like a word processor. Click an image to replace it.
Click Preview (top right) to see your changes without publishing them yet.
When you're happy, click Update to save your changes live.
Undo is built in
Made a change you regret? Look for a "Revisions" or history option in the page editor's sidebar — WordPress automatically saves earlier versions you can step back to.
Creating a new page
Go to Pages → Add New.
Give it a title at the top — this becomes both the page heading and part of its web address.
Add your content in the main editing area below.
Click Preview to check how it looks.
Click Publish to make it live, or leave it as a Draft to finish later.
A new page isn't automatically in your menu
Creating a page doesn't add it to your website's navigation menu — that's a separate step. See Editing Your Website Menu to add a link to it.
Publishing and unpublishing a page
To publish a draft: open it and click Publish.
To temporarily take a live page down: open it, find the Status setting in the right-hand panel, and change it from "Published" to "Draft," then click Update.
Duplicating a page
If your site has a "Duplicate" option (many do, via a small helper feature), hover over the page in your Pages list and click Duplicate. This creates an exact copy as a new draft — handy as a starting point for a similar page. If you don't see this option, copy the content manually into a new page instead.
Reordering pages
If your site uses a menu order (common for pages like services or team members), open the page, find Page Attributes in the right-hand sidebar, and adjust the Order number — lower numbers appear first. Update the page to save.
Menu order vs. navigation menu
This "Order" setting affects certain automatic page listings, not your main navigation bar. To reorder links in your actual site menu, see Editing Your Website Menu.
Deleting a page
From the Pages list, hover over the page and click Trash.
The page is removed from your live site immediately, but not permanently deleted yet.
Check your menu after deleting
If the page you delete was linked in your navigation menu, that menu link will now lead nowhere. Visit Editing Your Website Menu afterward to remove it.
Restoring a deleted page
Accidentally trashed the wrong page? It's recoverable for 30 days.
Go to Pages, then click Trash at the top of the list (next to "All" and "Published").
Find your page, hover over it, and click Restore.
It's back — exactly as it was, no content lost.
This is why deleting isn't scary
Trashed pages sit safely for 30 days before WordPress permanently removes them. If you delete something by mistake, you almost always have time to bring it back.
