Pages

A page is a thing with an address. Making one, putting it somewhere, and choosing which one people land on.

Making one

Pages → New page. It arrives as a draft with a title and an address, and nothing is on the live site until you publish.

You can also just ask: “add a page about our delivery area” makes the page and writes it in one turn.

A page is not the only thing with an address

An article has one too, and the difference is what it is for: a page is part of the site’s shape and nests inside other pages; an article arrives, sits in no tree, and turns up in a list. If what you are making is a blog post or a news item, make it in the Articles collection instead — see Articles.

Everything below is about pages.

Nesting is the address

A page can sit inside another, to any depth, and where it sits is what gives it its address:

Services                 /services
  Dental                 /services/dental
    Whitening            /services/dental/whitening

Drag a page somewhere else and its address changes, along with every page beneath it. There is nothing else to update — the address is worked out from the tree rather than stored twice.

Renaming or moving a published page leaves a redirect behind automatically, so old links keep working. See Addresses and redirects.

The homepage lends no segment

Your homepage is served at /, never at its own slug. A page inside the homepage is at /about, not /home/about.

Change which page is the homepage from Settings. It takes effect on the next publish like anything else.

The homepage cannot be hidden

While a page is the homepage it cannot be disabled or trashed. Make a different page the homepage first, and then it is an ordinary page again.

Your 404 page

You can choose which of your pages answers when somebody asks for an address that does not exist. It is an ordinary page — write it like any other, and pick it in Settings.

It is deliberately kept out of your sitemap: telling a search engine to index the page that says “this does not exist” is the one thing a sitemap must not do.

Order

Sibling pages have an order you set by dragging them. That order is what a navigation menu follows, and what sort: "order" uses when a list is built from your pages — see Sorting and filtering.