Adding a New Walk (Sub)-Page

This is a two stage process

A. Write a new Sub-Page with the details of the Walk

B. Add a Link to the new Sub-Page in the Walks (Parent) Page

Instructions

A. Write a new Sub-Page with the details of the Walk
Note: It is best to avoid composing posts or pages in Word and then pasting them into the Wordpress Editor form. Instead either compose directly using the WordPress Editor, or cut and paste clean text into it from Wordpad. You can always add bold to the headings and italics where required using the WordPress Editor. These techniques avoid adding lots of unnecessary tags that slow things down and make minor edits with the WordPress Editor risky. No matter how you compose the text however, you will have to upload any images you want in the page or post using WordPress and insert them via the WordPress Editor. You can’t just paste in a Word document with images.

So

1. Create a new page by Clicking on the [Write] menu item in Site Admin
2. Then click on the [Write Page] tab
3. In the form that opens, enter a title for the walk e.g. Pennine Way in an afternoon (on one leg)
4. Paste or type in the text of the walk article, using whatever technique (see above ) you have chosen.
5. You may use a template with headers and this could be saved in Wordpad. There are sophisticated (aka complicated) templates in WordPress that may be the subject of a future Instruction post.
6. Expand the [Discussion] box on the right by clicking on its [+] sign and decide whether you want to allow Comments and/or Pings. Tick or untick appropriately.
7. Expand the [Page Parent] box and choose ‘Walks’ from the drop-down list to make your new sub-page a sub-page of the Walks index page.
8. Expand the [Post Slug] box and type in a unique short link name (no spaces, use -s instead)
   Note: You can omit this step, and after saving the page, go back in via [manage] Pages and note the Page slug that WordPress has automatically entered for you. It will usually be the page title with hyphens replacing all the spaces.
9. Check your handiwork
10. Click on the [Create New Page >>] button
11. Click on the (View site>>) link in the header to check it on the site if you like

B. Add a Link to the new Sub-Page in the Walks (Parent) Page

1. In Site Admin click on the [Manage] menu item
2. Then click on the [Pages] tab
3. Next, click on the ‘Edit’ link of the ‘Walks’ page entry. The form for the Walks page will open.
4. In the main ‘Page Content’ box, add a new bullet to the list of links to walk sub-pages.
• Do this by positioning your cursor at the end of the text of the last item (or the item above the point where you want to insert the new link) and hit the return key.
• Type in the link text, which will normally be the title used for the walk sub-page
• Select the link text you have just typed, using your mouse or a keyboard technique
• Click on the WordPress editor ‘hyperlink tool’ which is represented by a small graphic that looks like the link of a chain.
• A popup form will appear. You only need to complete the top field (URL), so leave the middle (Target) field as “open link in the same window” and leave the last field (Title) blank.
• So, in the URL field type in the full URL of the walk sub-page. This will be something like:
  http://faartals.co.uk/walks/Post slug/ Note: replace Post slug with the value from the ‘Post slug’ field on the new walk sub-page.
• Check your work
• Click on the [Update] button to close the popup link window
• Check your handiwork
• Click on the [Save >>] button
• Click on the (View site>>) link in the header to check the site if you like