Make a truthful About page

Lesson 4 of 24

Add one About page and check it as a visitor without making up facts about a real business.

Before you start

Use the same practice site after wp-03. Keep the advice post. We are adding a different kind of content, not replacing that post.

1. Use Pages for About

Our advice post answers one question. About tells people what the site is and who it is for. It belongs in Pages. Choose Pages, then All Pages. On the disposable course copy, use Trash on Sample Page only. Leave the Privacy Policy draft alone. This exercise does not write or approve a legal policy.

Sample Page and the separate Privacy Policy draft in All Pages. — Remove the sample, but keep the policy draft untouched.

2. Create one About page

Choose Add Page and type About as its title. If Choose a pattern opens, close that panel. We will write the page ourselves. A pattern is a ready-made group of blocks. We do not need one for this small page.

New Page editor with About as the title. — About is a Page, not an advice Post.

3. Say what the example really is

Add the paragraph below. It tells the truth: Cedar Lane is a made-up business for this course. On a real site, use only facts that the owner has checked. Do not add made-up staff, awards or customer quotes to fill the page.

About page text that clearly describes Cedar Lane as a fictional course example. — A useful About page can be short and honest.

4. Save and read it back

Choose Save draft. Wait for the saved state, reload the editor and read the paragraph again. Check that you are still in the About Page. Do not make a second About page if the first one is hard to find; look for it in All Pages.

5. Publish and open the real page

Publish About on the practice copy. Read and confirm the real publish panel. Open the normal page link in a signed-out browser. Check the title and full paragraph with no editing bar. A Page can look different from a Post because the theme lays them out in different ways.

Published About page as seen by a signed-out visitor. — Check the page that a visitor receives.

The complete About page in a signed-out window. — Check the normal About address and read the full course-example statement with no admin bar.

6. Keep the menu as a separate job

Return to All Pages. Find the single About row. The page now exists, but the menu may not be in the order you want. We will work on the menu in wp-09. Do not create another About page to fix the menu. Page content and menu links are separate things.

One About page in the Pages list beside the unchanged policy draft. — One page is enough; menu changes come later.

Practise

Find Before your first garden visit in Posts and About in Pages. Open both normal links while signed out. Explain the different job each one does.

Check your result

There is one published About Page with the truthful course text. The advice Post still exists, the Privacy Policy remains a draft, and no new business claim was invented.

If something goes wrong

About is in Posts? On this safe copy, make the intended Page and carefully remove only your mistaken practice item. About is missing from the menu? Open its normal link to check the page; menu work belongs to wp-09. Do not publish the policy draft as part of this exercise.

Optional notes

Words used in this lesson

Page: A place with a lasting job, such as Home or About.
Navigation: The links people use to move around the site.

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