{"id":82,"date":"2018-10-17T11:19:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T16:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/site2017\/?page_id=82"},"modified":"2023-06-07T08:40:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T13:40:25","slug":"basic-overview-of-editing-pages","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/using-wordpress\/basic-overview-of-editing-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic Overview of Editing Pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p>The majority of your time using WordPress will involve editing pages. There are two ways to access a page&#8217;s edit screen:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Select the \u201cMy Sites\u201d section of the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">header<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hover over the section of the website you want to publish and click \u201cdashboard\u201d <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"line-height: 12px;\">Go to the &#8220;Pages&#8221; section from the WordPress dashboard and select &#8220;All Pages&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"line-height: 12px;\">Locate and click the title of the\u00a0page you wish to edit<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Select the page you want to edit and click &#8220;Edit Page&#8221; from the WordPress menu bar (must be logged in)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Text Editor<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-439\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/example\/files\/2013\/05\/Edit-Bar-e1383774010572.png\" alt=\"Edit Bar\" width=\"470\" height=\"88\" \/><br \/>\nIf you&#8217;ve used word processing software before, the above toolbar should look familiar. If you&#8217;re not sure what an icon is, hover over it to reveal its name.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0drop-down\u00a0menu (displaying &#8220;paragraph&#8221; in the example above) is used for specifying the format used for a block of text.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paragraph<\/strong> is used for basic body text, such as this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Heading 2-6\u00a0<\/strong>are used for subheadings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Heading 6\u00a0<\/strong>is the smallest of the subheadings and is in\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: uppercase;\">all caps<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h2>Save Your Changes<\/h2>\n<p>Once you have completed your changes, click the <strong>Update<\/strong> button (upper right-hand side, usually in blue) to save and publish the updated page.<\/p>\n<h2>Example of Heading 2<\/h2>\n<h3>Example of Heading 3<\/h3>\n<h4>Example of Heading 4<\/h4>\n<h5>Example of Heading 5<\/h5>\n<h6>Example of Heading 6<\/h6>\n<p><!-- begin-migrated-from-panel-builder --><!-- end-migrated-from-panel-builder --><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of your time using WordPress will involve editing pages. There are two ways to access a page&#8217;s edit screen: Select the \u201cMy Sites\u201d section of the header Hover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1238,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-82","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/using-wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/using-wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/using-wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/using-wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/using-wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/using-wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/using-wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/using-wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}