{"id":13714281,"date":"2020-11-30T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/?post_type=helphub_article&p=13714281"},"modified":"2024-10-24T13:32:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T13:32:01","slug":"page-post-settings-sidebar","status":"publish","type":"helphub_article","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/article\/page-post-settings-sidebar\/","title":{"rendered":"Page\/Post Settings sidebar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Settings Sidebar is used to customize the key aspects of the page or post that is being published. It’s an essential component of the WordPress Block Editor<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This sidebar was introduced in WordPress 5.6 and was called Document Settings. It has been renamed now to the Page\/Post settings. Depending on whether you are working on a Post or Page, the tab in the sidebar is named Post<\/strong> or Page<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are working in a custom post type such as Article, this tab will be labeled with the name of the custom post type, which would be Article<\/strong> in this case. If you are in the Site Editor, the tab is named Template<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to open<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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In the upper-right corner of the WordPress Editor, select the gear icon. This toggles the sidebar. Within the sidebar, the left tab features the settings for the entire Page or Post you\u2019re working on. The right tab shows the settings for the individual Block selected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Page Settings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Post Settings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Settings Sidebar<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The following sections are available in the settings sidebar for Pages and Posts. This may vary based on the themes and plugins you have on your site. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Featured image<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Featured Images (also sometimes called Post Thumbnails) are used in different ways depending on the theme. Many themes use this image to showcase the post on the home page or blog index page. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Featured<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To set the Featured image<\/strong>, drag an image from your computer and drop it in the gray box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can also click the Set featured image<\/strong> box, which opens the Media Library where you can select the image or upload a new image. Once you have an image picked, you will see a blue check box around the selected image. Click Set featured image<\/strong> button at the bottom right corner to have this image as the Featured Image for the page\/post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Adding<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Once you’ve set a Featured Image for a page or post, you have two choices available. First, you can Replace<\/strong> the current Featured Image with a new one. Second, you can Remove<\/strong> the Featured Image, so there’s no image displayed for that page or post anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Replace<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Excerpt<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This section is optional and only applicable to post types that have excerpts enabled, such as posts. Here you can write a one to two sentence description of the post. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Excerpt<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Depending on the theme, these excerpts can be used as a preview, in place of showing the full post or page content on different places such as the homepage, search results, or the archive page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the excerpt is empty, WordPress automatically creates an excerpt using the first 55 words of the post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Status <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

This setting controls the Status of the page\/post and how it is viewed once it is published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clicking on the current setting for Status<\/strong> will open a pop-over where you can change the Status & Visibility setting. Click X<\/strong> in the top right corner in the pop-over to close it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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