Teaching and Learning Resource Center

Adding Pages

This guide walks you through adding new pages and navigating the various options available to you on the Add New and Edit Page pages.

  1. Login to u.osu.edu and navigate to the dashboard of the site that you would like to edit
  2. You can add a new page in one of two ways:
    1. Click Pages from the left-side Main Menu and then click Add New,
      OR
    2. Hover over + New in the top Admin Toolbar and select Page.
  3. The Add New Page page appears
    Sections of the Add New Page page highlighted in this screenshot are described in the steps below.
  4. Type the page title in the Title field.
  5. Click the Add Media button to add media to the page if needed.
    See the Working with Images guide for more information about the various ways to use images and media on your site.
  6. Use the editor to add page content.
    See the Embedding Videos and External Content guide for more info on embedding content
  7. There are two different views of the editor window, Visual and Text. Toggle between these tabs as needed.

    Click the Distraction-free Writing Mode button 

    Distraction Free Mode button

    to remove all elements surrounding the title and content from view. Click the button again to allow the elements to reappear. Note that the Distraction-free Writing Mode button appears by default; however, you can enable / disable the button by clicking Screen Options and checking / unchecking "Enable full-height editor and distraction-free functionality".

    1. The Visual tab shows a rich text version of the page content, and includes editing tools to assist with formatting and styling your page content. This is the default view.
    2. The Text tab shows the raw HTML version of the page content. Use this view mode to embed code.
  8. Click the Screen Options button at the top of the screen to toggle the visibility of additional page setting options such as:
    1. Page Attributes
    2. Featured Image
    3. Custom Fields
    4. Discussion
    5. Slug
    6. Author
  9. To save your changes, click Save Draft in the Publish box or select the desired publishing options and click Publish. See the Publishing Pages and Posts guide for more details.

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