Advanced Options for Wordpress Pages and Posts

To create a Wordpress page or post, you enter a title and then the text of the page or post.

There are a number of Advanced Options you can set:

• Discussion / Comments & Pings: Allow Comments can be set on or off, and controls whether comments are able to be entered for this page or post. Note the OM4 Theme has an override setting in Site Design to turn all page comments on or off, so the Allow Comments field only affects comments for Pages if the override is turned off. The Allow Pings can be set on or off as well, and controls whether pingbacks or trackbacks (references to this post or page on other websites) are displayed in the comments section.
• Page Status: Will show you whether the post or page is Private, Draft or Published. Only use this setting if you want to take a Published post/page and set it back to draft, or take a Published post/page and make it private.
• Page Password: If you set a password here, a visitor to this post/page will be asked to enter the password to view the post/page.
• Page Parent: Only applies to pages. By default, a page has no parent, but you can update this and make any other page the parent. For example, if you already have a page called Cakes, you might create a new page called Chocolate Cake and make Cakes the parent page. Pages that have a parent include the parent page in their URL (for example, mysite.com/cakes and mysite.com/cakes/chocolate-cake). You can use pages and sub pages to created automatically nested menus (see How to Configure Menus).
• Page Template: only applies to pages. A page template controls how your page content is displayed. For example, your Default Template will display your content with 1 or 2 sidebars according to your Site Design. If you use the Article template, your Page will display with no sidebars. The other page templates are specialised, instructions for using them are provided elsewhere.
• Page Slug: the page slug determines the URL for this page or post. For example, if you set the slug to cakes, the URL for this post or page will be mysite.com/cakes. By default, the slug is created for the first time from the page title, replacing blanks with hyphens. So a page title of Chocolate Cake will have a slug of chocolate-cake. The page slug is not automatically updated if you change a page title. Special note: if you create a page with a slug of blog, then any page content you have entered will be ignored and the page will display your blog posts.
• Page Author: if you have multiple users for your site, this field sets the owner. In a blog post, the owner’s name is displayed at the top of the post.
• Page Order: controls the order of the page. When you view pages or posts in the Dashboard, they are sorted by this page order field. If you are using automatic menus and set ordering to page order, they will be ordered using this field.
• All In One SEO: If the All In One SEO plugin is activated, you are able to enter a page title and page description. The page title should describe your page or post, and will be the indexed title of your page. The description should be up to 160 characters long, and is highly likely to be used by search engines to display a description of your page. These will be used for the HTML title tag and HTML meta description tag.