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Key Insights
- Deleting unwanted WordPress pages can optimize storage and reduce confusion for the development team.
- Pages can be deleted by hovering over 'Pages' in the Sidebar Menu and selecting 'All Pages'.
- The 'Trash' option allows pages to be temporarily removed, but they can still be restored if needed.
- Deleted pages can be permanently removed by selecting the 'Delete Permanently' option.
- Learning to create your own WordPress templates provides more control over website design and development.
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Build a Custom Theme
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Set Up a Child Theme
Inherits from a parent — safe place for customizations.
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Create style.css and functions.php
Required theme files — header comments matter.
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Build Templates
header.php, footer.php, single.php, page.php — control output.
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Enqueue Scripts/Styles
wp_enqueue_script in functions.php — no inline tags.
Why Delete, and How
If I’ve got a page I don’t want, it's worth removing since it takes up storage. Plus, it might confuse my team or me as I’m working on it.
I’m going to hover in the Sidebar Menu over Pages and go to All Pages. Now I have a list of all my pages.
This guy (see video) came in from the installation of WordPress itself. I can hover over this particular post and go to Trash. Now, it’s not gone! If I made a mistake, I could undo this action. Or, I can go into the trash, and I can restore it manually, and it goes back into my menu structure. However, if I want this gone, I’m going to click Delete Permanently.
Once I do that, it’s gone—I can’t retrieve it anymore. And now you’ll notice that there are two pages: one that’s published, and one that’s a draft.
This one, of course, from the new security policies dealing with overseas—and that’s why it’s a draft. It was created for me. I don’t need that, but there’s the page that I created. And I could create additional pages as well.
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