Pages panel overview

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Use the Pages panel to access, organize, sort, and manage your pages and page settings.

The Pages panel shows your site’s pages and the folders that house those pages. Here, you can manage and organize pages, folders, and page templates and page settings.

How to create a new page

You can create new blank pages in the Pages panel. To add a new page to your site:

  1. Open the Pages panel
  2. Click the Create new page icon
  3. Click New page
  4. Type a page name in the Page name field
  5. (Optional) Set page settings
  6. Click Create (or click the arrow on the Create button to save it as a draft)

You can also create a new page using quick find, or from a page template.

Note

Static page limits differ depending on your Site plan. Branched pages and static template pages, as well as User, Ecommerce, Collection, and Utility pages, don’t count against the static page limit.

How to manage general page settings

Hover over a page in the Pages panel, then click the Page settings icon to configure your page. You can:

How to save your page and access page settings

When you finish setting up your page, you can choose to either create the new page, save the changes you made to a pre-existing page, or save the page as draft. Saving a page as draft ensures that the page won’t be published when you publish the site. Learn more about drafted pages.

How to duplicate a page

Duplicating a page creates a duplicate copy of both the content and settings of your page. To duplicate a page:

  1. Open the Pages panel
  2. Hover over a page and click the Page settings icon
  3. Click the Duplicate icon at the top
  4. Click Create (or click the arrow on the Create button to save it as a draft)

How to delete a page

Important

You cannot undo a page delete operation. The only way to restore a deleted page is to restore a site backup from the Backups tab of your Site settings. Learn more about site backups.

You can’t delete a page that is set as the homepage. If you need to delete the homepage, first set another page as the homepage, then delete the old homepage.

To delete a page:

  1. Open the Pages panel
  2. Hover over a page and click the Page settings icon
  3. Click the Delete icon at the top

Important

Make sure to set 301 redirects for any site pages you delete.

How to organize pages

You can reorder pages in the panel or place them in folders. If you have a lot of pages, you can use the search option to quickly find pages or folders.

Reordering pages or folders

Note

Only static pages and folders that you create in the Static pages section can be reordered.

To reorder pages:

  1. Open the Pages panel
  2. Hover over the page or folder you want to move
  3. Click the drag handle that appears to the left of the page name
  4. Drag the page to a new location in the page list using the drag handle

Creating a folder

Use folders to keep your pages organized. To create a folder:

  1. Open the Pages panel
  2. Click the Create new folder icon
  3. Type in a name
  4. (Optional) Add a custom slug, set a parent folder, or add a password (if you have a site plan)
  5. Click Create

Moving pages in and out of folders

Good to know

A blue line will indicate where you’re about to place a page/folder. Dragging a page/folder over another folder will highlight the folder in blue, and dropping the page/folder on the highlighted folder will place it within that parent folder.

To add a page to a parent folder, you can:

  • Drag and drop the page inside of the parent folder
  • Open the page’s Page settings and select a Parent folder from the dropdown

To remove a page from a parent folder, you can:

  • Drag and drop the page outside the parent folder
  • Open the page’s Page settings and select None from the Parent folder dropdown

You can also add folders to or remove folders from parent folders using the steps above.

Important

Moving pages/folders into or out of parent folders will change the URL path of those pages/folders. If you’ve already published these pages/folders, this will result in broken links. You can redirect your pages/folders to new URLs using 301 redirects.

Searching for pages and folders

To search for a page or folder in the Pages panel:

  1. Open the Pages panel
  2. (Optional) Click the Search CMS Collections icon to search for a Collections page
  3. Click into the Search field and type the name of a page or folder

You can also search for pages using quick find. To access quick find, click Command + E (on Mac) or Control + E (on Windows).

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