User Guide
If you wanted people to be able to leave comments on your page, you will leave
them checked.
If the majority of your pages are not going to permit comments, you’re
probably better off changing the global setting. Find this on
Menu > Settings > Discussion
There is other information that you can change or use, but they are either
obvious, not usually set and/or are more advanced, however for the sake of
completion they are briefly covered:
Publish
Status!! ! Can be set to Draft or Pending Review
Visibility! ! A page can be public (seen by everyone), password
! ! ! protected (need to enter a password you set before you
! ! ! can see it, or private (only seen by yourself).
Published! ! You can set a date in the future when the page will publish
! ! ! and therefore become visible.
Move To Trash! Delete this page, moving it to Trash
Page Attributes
Template! ! Depending on the theme you are using, you will have one
! ! ! or more page templates that you can use. TwentyTen has
! ! ! the default page, which includes the sidebar, plus an
! ! ! additional template that does not include the sidebar:
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