Help:How to Create a New Article (Creating a New Page for CREpedia)

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Product/Environment

CREpedia


Problem

There is no "New Page" button anywhere on the CREpedia site. You need to know how to start a new CREpedia Article.


Solution

NOTE: Before creating any new CREpedia Article, always search first using various keywords to see if there is already an existing page on the same topic. You can always edit a previous Article to include your new information, which is much quicker and easier than creating an all-new Article. Click the “edit” tab at the top of the page you wish to edit.

If you need to create an all-new Article, first think of a title for it. Titles should describe the problem and should describe it from the store owner’s point of view. For example, “Zipcode notify.php Produces Blank Screen or Random Characters on the Second Page” is a good title because it tells what happens and where. A title such as “Having a Few Problems in the Cart” or “Weird Issue with the Admin” is much too vague and could apply to dozens of different CREpedia Articles.


METHOD 1:

The easiest way to make a new CREpedia Article is to begin by editing an existing page, and to create a link on it to a page that does not exist yet.

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Then, when you click on it for the first time, you can edit the necessary information into it and watch it for all further edits in the future.

Also it is good to move an Article after creating it, if you feel you need to. When you move a page, you can change its title.


METHOD 2:

Another way to create a new CREpedia Article is to use your own personal page (via the link in the upper right of CREpedia.com) and then use the instructions from Method 1 above.

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METHOD 3:

Yet another way to create a new Article is to change the URL at the top of the browser page from whatever is currently displayed (for example http://www.crepedia.com/index.php/Main_Page) so that the last section of it (in this example “Main_Page”) is replaced with the new title of the new Article that you wish to begin.

If your new Article is to be called “Getting Charged Twice for Shipping when Selecting Pony Express” you would change the URL to: http://www.crepedia.com/index.php/Getting_Charged_Twice_for_Shipping_when_Selecting_Pony_Express

Once the new title is loaded, press “Enter.” CREPedia will open a new page that says, “There is currently no text in this page, you can search for this page title in other pages or edit this page.

Click on the highlighted link to “edit this page,” and a new page will open. This is where you create the new CREpedia Article.


Complete instructions for writing and editing a CREpedia page:

http://www.crepedia.com/index.php/How_to_Write_and_Edit_CREpedia_Articles


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