Before You Get Started with PageLines

Welcome to the PageLines Wiki! Our number one goal is to make people happy using PageLines. Hopefully these docs will help remove most of the frustration that may occur when learning how to use a new product.

Install WordPress

One of the very first things you'll need to do before you can use PageLines is have a working copy up WordPress up & running on either a web-server or localhost. Some hosting companies like ZippyKid are built around WordPress, so it’s already up & running. Others such as Bluehost offer easy 1-click automatic installations. If your host is like either of these, you may not have to manually install WordPress.

Setup a Static Home Page

By default, WordPress is installed as a blog site. This means that your Home Page will display your blog posts. If you are building a regular website, you may not want the Home Page to contain any blog posts. Simply reassign the Home Page from a blog page to a regular page. If you still want to have a blog, you can easily move it to somewhere other than the Home Page. First we will need create a separate "Home" page and "Blog" page.

Create Home Page

From your WordPress Administration Panel:

1. Select the "Pages" panel, then "Add New"
2. Title this page "Home"
3. Enter some content for your page (Optional)
4. For now keep this page's template set at "Default Template"
5. Click "Publish"

Repeat these steps a second time to make your Blog page, only this time title your page "Blog" and leave the page completely blank. Content added in this page via editing will not show. Only dynamically created blog listings will appear

Now that you've created a separate Home page & Blog page, You need to need to tell WordPress to treat each page as such.

Assign Front & Posts Page

From your WordPress Administration Panel:

1. Select the "Settings" panel, then "Reading"
2. Under "Front page displays," select "A static page"
3. Assign "Front page:" to "Home" & "Posts page:" to "Blog"
4. Click "Save Changes"