Pages and menus (video)
Block Editor (video)
BLOCKS AND GRIDS
Blocks and grids are the tools that are used to build pages in WordPress. Grids are a type of block instead of a separate element type, there are also columns within grids if you need to break up grids even further.
PAGE FUNCTIONALITY
Page status and visibility will function similarly in WordPress to other websites with options for Public, Private, and Password Protected pages. However, WordPress will allow the ability to set pages, not just news articles, to publish at certain dates and times. You can also work on a public page as a draft and preview any changes before the updates are pushed live.
Within pages, you can undo changes with the “undo” backwards arrow, and recover any deleted pages in the trash section of the pages list. There you will also find a list of any pages you created and a separate list for pages that are currently drafts.
MENUS/TOP NAV
To add a page or change the order of your menu/navigation areas, you will go to Appearance>Menus in the dashboard, or through the menus section in the customizer. Once there, you can select your header or footer menu and drag and drop current menu items or add new pages to your menus.
This is also where you can add links to third party pages, like your shop page for example. You can add them directly to the menu by selecting “custom links” under “Add menu items” and adding them once the URL and link text is filled in.
URL SLUGS
URL Slugs allow you to set the URL of a page on your site. Slugs can also be added to news articles in WordPress.
NEWS TAGS
News articles can be created through the “News” dashboard section or the “New” tab in the top WordPress menu. When adding a new news article you will see the “news tags” section within the article settings that will allow you to tag the article and also add new tags to the site.
EVENT CATEGORIES
Functioning similarly to news tags, event categories will control what events will show in an event aggregator.
To get an article showing up in an aggregator the aggregator and the article have matching tags the article will display.
BULK ACTIONS
In WordPress, you can make bulk actions to your content for each tab in your dashboard. For example, you can move multiple pages to the trash or edit them en masse.
ACTIVITY
In the WordPress dashboard, you can see the recent edits and additions to your site. You can also check which user made the changes. You can also see when someone is currently editing a page or post and will have the option to “take over” editing from that person so multiple edits aren’t happening at the same time.
EMBEDS VS. CODE BLOCKS
WordPress uses separate blocks for embeds and code blocks.
Embeds will be used for things like social feeds and Youtube. For a full list of available embeds, please check the embeds help article linked above.
Code blocks will cover all HTML being added to the site.
MEDIA LIBRARY
In WordPress, you have an entire library of all photos, videos, audio, etc that is or was being used on your site. You can apply actions to these from the library, as well as search them by the file name.