Blogger Magic - Make A New Static Page

In order to make the Pages gadget "Pages to show" useful, you need to add one or more static pages.

Without entries under "Pages to show", you've nothing to do but add dynamic pages, using "Add external link". There is one way to access Page Editor - though several ways to access Post Editor.

You use the Page Editor, to publish static pages - which then are listed under "Pages to show", in "Configure Page List".

You access the Page Editor from the dashboard Pages page.

With the Pages page displayed, look for "New page". Click on the button, and you have Page Editor in front of you.


Start from the "Pages" dashboard page.




Click on "New page".




Clicking on "New page", you're in Page Editor.



Page Editor has the same look and feel as Post Editor - but without a few items in the sidebar.


Post Editor has a more complete sidebar.



Having published a new static page, you make the new page visible - if you wish. Many blog owners use the Pages gadget, as a horizontal menu bar - and add each static page to Pages.

You can use Pages for blog content, if you wish - just consider the possibilities for confusion. There are other ways to index a static page - or even to link to the page, within one or more posts. How to make your page visible is entirely up to you.

Let's make a new page, as an example.

Here's an example, using my test blog "Nitecruzr Test Pages 2014".

So, we'll make a new page, "Contact", in my test blog.
Enter the content, and click "Publish".

Go to the "Layout" dashboard page, and Edit the Pages gadget.

That gives us "Configure Page List".
Select "Contact", under"Pages to show".
Click "Save".

And now, there's a new static page in my blog "Nitecruzr Test Pages 2014".



And that gives us a "Contact" page, in "Nitecruzr Test Pages 2014".

Observe the differences, between pages and posts.

To illustrate the differences between page editor and post editor, see my static page, which mirrors this dynamic page. And, you can see my "pages vs posts" post - and my mirror "pages vs posts" page.

At any rate, once you publish a page, you create links to the new page. You can link to a static page from within the posts - and from the Pages gadget. With the page published, look under "Pages to show" - and select it, if you wish.

With a dynamic page (aka "post"), you can change the URL, by using the "Permalink" option in the post editor sidebar. You won't have this option, with a static page. The title of the new static page will determine the URL. Get it right the first time.

If you want to change the URL of a static page, you re publish the page, starting with the right title. Static pages, for blogs published in languages that use non Roman characters, may or may not produce consistent results.

And you can index a page, without the Pages gadget.

You don't have to use the Pages gadget. A static page can be referenced anywhere you wish, in the blog. I'm not adding my static page to my Pages gadget - or even to my custom linkbar - in this blog. You'll only find my links to the page, from this post.

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