WordPress Editor

The WordPress Editor lets you create and design pages, posts, and your site’s structure. In this guide, you’ll learn how to access the editor and find resources for creating content.

Pages and posts are the two main content types on your site. Use a page for content that stays in one place, such as your homepage, About, or Contact page. Use a post for dated entries that appear in reverse-chronological order, such as a blog article or news update.

For a full comparison, including how pages, posts, and templates work together, read Understand pages, posts, and templates.

WordPress.com has two editing surfaces. Choose the one that matches what you want to change:

• The Site Editor changes your site’s overall design — templates, header, footer, and menus. It applies across your whole site.
• The Block editor changes the content of one specific page or post — the text, images, and blocks on that page only.

The sections below show how to open each one.

To edit your website’s structure, navigate to Appearance → Editor in your dashboard. From here, you can edit:

• Menus, header, and footer.
• Site templates, which control the layout used by pages and posts.
• Patterns, which are reusable content you can add across multiple parts of your site.

Changes made here affect your site’s design and templates globally — not the content of individual pages or posts. To edit the text, images, or other content on a specific page, see Edit individual pages or Edit individual posts below.

To create or edit a page from your site’s dashboard, follow these steps:

1. Click on Pages in the menu on the left.
2. Click the “Add Page” button to create a new page, or click the title of an existing page to edit it.

Learn how to create, customize, and publish your site’s pages.

You can also create or edit pages through the Site Editor by following these steps:

1. From your site’s dashboard, navigate to Appearance → Editor.
2. Select Pages on the left side.
3. Click the “Add Page” button to create a new page, or hover over a page and select the Edit option to the left of the page title.

To write new posts or edit existing posts, follow these steps:

1. From your site’s dashboard, click on Posts.
2. Click the “Add Post” button to create a new post, or click the title of an existing post to edit it.

Learn how to create, publish, and share your posts.

The AI assistant can help you write and design content directly in the editor. Here are some things you can ask it to do:

• “Write an introduction paragraph for my About page.”
• “Generate a three-column features section for my homepage.”
• “Improve the readability of this paragraph: [paste text].”
• “Suggest a layout for a product landing page.”

For more on AI features, see Enable the AI assistant and Use AI tools on WordPress.com.

AI agents can create and update pages and posts on your site directly. Here are some things you can ask an agent to do:

• “Add a hero section to my homepage with a welcome message and a Get Started button.”
• “Create a new About page with three columns describing my services.”
• “Update the headline on my homepage to ‘Welcome to [site name].'”
• “Add a contact form to my Contact page.”

To set this up, see Enable MCP tool access for AI agents.

Our dedicated guides below cover how to create content and modify your website.

Use these guides to learn the basics of editing with the WordPress editor.

• Introduction to the WordPress editor
• Add content using blocks
• Write text in WordPress

Learn how to move, remove, and undo changes to blocks.

• Select and move blocks
• Remove a block
• Undo your changes

Learn how to adjust block settings, change content width, and explore all available blocks.

• Change a block’s settings
• Change the width of your content
• Blocks (the full list)

Save your work as a draft, publish it when it’s ready, and choose who can see it.

• Edit a page or post’s settings
• Control who can see a page or post
• Schedule posts and pages

Learn how to edit your site’s templates, menus, header, and footer.

• Understand how block themes work
• Use the Site Editor
• Working with templates
• Fix content added to a template instead of a page
• Add and edit menus
• Edit the header
• Edit the footer

Work more efficiently with reusable patterns, keyboard shortcuts, and personalized editor settings.

• Use block patterns
• Create a pattern
• Keyboard shortcuts in the editor
• Personalize the WordPress editor