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Create a Services page from Pages > Add New, build its layout with blocks or a customizable pattern, publish it, and add the page to your site navigation. Keep a small set of offerings on one page; use child pages when individual services need substantial detail.

Choose the right Services structure

Services information usually belongs on a WordPress Page, not a Post. Pages are intended for relatively permanent content, while Posts are arranged chronologically.

Structure Use it when Visitor experience
One Services page You have a short list of offerings and each needs only a brief explanation. Visitors scan all services in one place.
Parent Services page with child pages Each service needs its own process, scope, examples, pricing explanation, or contact path. Visitors see an overview, then open a focused page for details.

WordPress supports parent and child Pages. A Services page can therefore contain the overview while separate service pages sit beneath it in the page hierarchy.

Create the Services page

  1. In the WordPress dashboard, go to Pages > Add New.
  2. Enter Services as the page title.
  3. Add a short introduction explaining who you help and the outcomes your services provide.
  4. Build the content in the block editor.
  5. Use Preview to check the page, then select Publish.

Keep the opening focused: tell a visitor what you do, who it is for, and what they can do next. Avoid placing every operational detail in the overview if a separate service page would make the information easier to scan.

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Build each service with blocks

Blocks let you assemble the page from headings, paragraphs, images, buttons, lists, columns, and other content types. A practical service item can contain:

  • Service name: a clear heading that describes the offering.
  • Short explanation: what is included and the problem it addresses.
  • Outcome or fit: who benefits or what result the visitor can expect.
  • Next step: a link to a detailed service page, contact page, booking form, or other relevant action.

Give every service the same basic information order so visitors can compare offerings quickly. Use heading levels in sequence and check the layout on narrow screens before publishing.

Start with a pattern or build from scratch

A block pattern is a prearranged collection of blocks that you can insert into a page and customize with your own content. It can provide a useful starting layout for service cards, columns, or calls to action, but the inserted text and design still need to be adapted to your business.

Approach Best for Trade-off
Individual blocks A custom layout or a small page where you want complete control. You assemble spacing, columns, and repeated elements yourself.
Pattern A faster start with a grouped layout that already has a visual arrangement. The pattern is a starting point; replace its sample content and adjust its design.

Use synced patterns only for content that must match

A synced pattern keeps a reusable group of blocks connected across the pages where it appears. If you change the synced pattern, that change appears in every instance. This is useful for a standard contact prompt or consultation call to action that should remain identical.

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Choose an ordinary, unsynced pattern when you want to copy a layout but edit each page independently. This prevents a change to one service’s wording from unexpectedly changing every other service page.

Add detailed child pages when needed

  1. Create the detailed page from Pages > Add New.
  2. Open the page’s document settings and set Services as its parent page.
  3. Add the service-specific explanation, deliverables, process, examples, and relevant call to action.
  4. Publish the child page and link to it from the Services overview.

Use a child page when a service cannot be explained clearly in a short block group. Keep the parent page useful on its own: it should help visitors understand the range of services and choose where to continue.

Use the correct editing interface for your theme

The dependable general workflow is the dashboard’s Pages screen. If your site uses an activated block theme, WordPress also provides the Site Editor at Appearance > Editor.

Interface Availability What you can edit
Pages screen General page workflow, including sites that do not use a block theme. Page title, content blocks, page settings, preview, and publishing.
Site Editor Only when a block theme is installed and activated. Site-wide styles, navigation, patterns, templates, and pages in their template context.

In the Site Editor, the Pages view shows the page within its template context. Editing the template itself is a separate action, so change the template only when you intend to affect the broader layout rather than just the Services content. If you do not see the Site Editor, continue with the normal Pages workflow instead of looking for a missing menu item.

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Put Services in your navigation

  1. After publishing the page, open the site’s navigation editing interface. With a block theme, this is available through the Site Editor’s navigation tools; other themes may expose menu controls elsewhere in the dashboard.
  2. Select the Navigation block or the theme’s menu editor.
  3. Add a link to the published Services page.
  4. Place the link where visitors will notice it, save the navigation, and test it from the front end.

A published page is not automatically easy to find. Confirm that the navigation link opens the correct URL and that child service pages are reachable from the overview.

Pre-publish checklist

  • The page title clearly identifies the section as Services.
  • Each offering has a distinct heading and a concise explanation.
  • Links and buttons lead to the intended detail or contact destination.
  • Child pages have Services set as their parent when you use a hierarchy.
  • Images, columns, and buttons remain readable on mobile screens.
  • The page has been previewed and published.
  • The published Services page has been added to site navigation.
  • Any synced pattern contains only wording and design that should stay consistent everywhere it is used.

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