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How to add a page to a wordpress site

by Mike Murphy
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I have a blog at immikemurphy.com but I'd like to add a page onto it for other use so it would be something like immikemurphy.com/family or family.htm something like that

Where do I upload the .htm file if immikemurphy.com is my main domain?

Sorry for the newbish question...I'm getting it slowly :-)

Thanks
Mike
#add #page #site #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Ethan Evans
    Okay so it sounds like you don't want the page you want to add to your website to be part of the blog that you're running. So in a situation like that you should use your file transfer protocol (ftp) program to create a new directory where your website is being hosted and then upload the new HTML pages to that directory. I don't know how much or little you know about doing this, but the information I just gave you should give you a start.
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  • Profile picture of the author awesometbn
    Hello Mike,
    If you are using WordPress, all of the posts and pages are tracked with the database. You can have external .htm files, but all of that would be handled by custom links to those pages you create manually, or with a plugin such as WP-cache. What I would suggest is logging into the Wordpress dashboard, and create a new category called Family. Then all you have to do is start creating new pages from the dashboard and assign them to the Family category. WordPress will automatically group the related pages for you into menus, and sidebar, etc. based on the features of your WordPress theme.

    I know it can be a bit overwhelming. It was for me too. But please let me know if that helps. Thank you.
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  • Profile picture of the author awesometbn
    Looks like my previous post showed up almost at the same time with Ethan. If you want to use the blog and your own custom pages separately, not a problem, just create those pages and subdirectories off the root location of your blog installation on the web server. I've done this for a section of a website called games. The original blog just had a link to the real http location of the games .htm file. That .htm file was made to look identical to the rest of the blog, so for the visitor it looked seamless, even though they were leaving the blog to my own custom pages.

    My reasoning for the games section, outside of the blog, was because I wanted to do a few Javascript applets and other special things, and did not want to use the blog to manage it.
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