After completing the last post you should now have a Wordpress theme installed that you’re comfortable with.
Up to now, most of the work has been setup. Domain, hosting, WordPress, theme.
Boring, but important steps which are not very satisfying because your site still feels like an unfurnished apartment. Technically liveable, but echoey and slightly judgemental …
But it’s about to get exciting because this is the point where things start to feel real.
You are no longer preparing to build a website. You are building one.
The real goal at this stage
- The goal is not design.
- The goal is not branding.
- The goal is clarity.
A visitor should quickly understand what the site is about, who it is for, and what they can do next. That alone puts you ahead of most early websites.
The five pages every beginner site needs
1. Home
Your Home page answers one simple question.
What is this site for?
A short headline and a clear sentence or two is enough. You are not trying to impress. You are trying to orient the reader.
If someone lands here and understands the point in five seconds, you have done your job.
2. About
The About page builds trust.
Explain who you are and why the site exists. This does not need to be polished or dramatic. A few honest paragraphs work better than a long, drawn out backstory.
If you are unsure what to write, imagine explaining the site to a curious stranger.
3. Contact
This page signals that a real person is behind the site.
An email address or a simple contact form is enough. Many visitors will never use it, but its presence matters more than its content.
If you’re comfortable sharing your physical location and a phone number, even better.
Google, especially, loves to validate you’re a real entity.
4. Blog or Articles page
This page lists your posts.
Even if you only have one article, creating this page early helps structure the site. It shows that content lives somewhere and will grow over time.
5. One real post
- Not a placeholder.
- Not a demo.
- Something genuine.
This is a psychological milestone more than a technical one. Once something real is published, the site stops feeling theoretical.
This is not the place for “Coming Soon” or “First post testing 123” … Those posts never age well and will nag at you later.
How to build pages in WordPress
Go to ‘Pages’, then ‘Add New’.
Add a clear page title.
Use headings that describe what the page is about.
Write in short paragraphs.
This helps readers scan and helps you stay focused while writing.
Write for humans first
At this stage, forget about perfection and forget about search engines.
Write the way you would explain something out loud. One idea per paragraph. Clear sentences. No need to sound clever.
Clear writing builds confidence faster than polished writing.
Link your pages together
This can be very simple.
Link from Home to About.
Link from About to your first post.
These small connections help visitors navigate and help your site feel coherent instead of scattered.
Most WordPress themes already auto-link to new pages via the header area but you can always change this, if you want.
Menus without stress
Once the pages exist, create a basic menu.
Go to ‘Appearance’, then ‘Menus’.
Add Home, About, Blog, and Contact.
Navigation matters more than design at this stage. A usable site beats a pretty one.
What beginners often get wrong
They wait to feel ready and keep redesigning instead of writing.
They tweak fonts instead of finishing pages.
I have watched people spend 40 minutes choosing a font and zero minutes writing a sentence. Fonts are seductive like that.
Confidence comes from publishing, not from planning.
Most of us have looked back at the content we produced when we first started blogging and felt at least a little cringe 
A helpful way to think about these pages
Your first pages are scaffolding.
They support future content. They are not meant to be final. Every good site started with pages the owner would rewrite today.
That is progress, not failure.
Coming next
Post 8 will cover plugins. The few you actually need, why they matter, and which ones you can safely ignore for now.
If you feel stuck writing any of these pages, say which one. That hesitation is common and usually easy to work through.
Thanks for reading!
See you in the next one
- Rohan