This article goes over the basics of adding new pages to your website and how to re-organize Site Navigation.
Overview
Adding a new page will automatically update the navigation bar. Top-level pages will show up as main navigation items, child pages one level down will show up as dropdown items, and going down each consecutive level will mean there will be dropdown items stemming from dropdown items. It’s best practice to not add too many items under one navigation item, as this can cause the menu to dip below the browser’s viewport.
Pages can be re-arranged by clicking and dragging them in the Pages section. When dragging a page to another area in the page tree, hovering the item over a page will highlight that page, and hovering between two pages will show a line where the page’s position will be if the item is dragged there. Letting go of the mouse over a page will result in the page being moved being turned into a subpage of the page it was dragged over, and letting go of the mouse while dragging a page between two others will result in the page being positioned between those two in navigation.
When selecting a page in the Pages menu on the left side of the editor interface, options for managing the page will drop down underneath. You will see six buttons; Edit, Hide, Delete, Add, Rename and Duplicate. Clicking Edit will open the page in the viewport for editing content. Hide will hide the page from navigation and change its icon in the Pages from a page to an eyeball with a line over it. This will not prevent the page from publishing; it just won’t appear in the navigation menu. Delete will remove the page from the website and all content placed on the page, so be very careful with this feature! Rename will allow you to choose a different name for the page. Changing the name of a page will also change the URL path of the page, so anything “hard-linked” to this page will need to be re-linked. Duplicate will make a copy of the page and all of its content.
Links can also be included in navigation in addition to pages. To add a link instead of a page, click Add on the Home page in the Pages section if you’d like it to be a top level item, and if you would like it to be a sub-item of a page, select the page and click that page’s Add button. After clicking the Add button, a popup will appear labeled with “Add Page”, although this popup actually applies to both links and pages. Select Link rather than Page, and give the link a name in the text box labeled “Enter the text that will appear in the navigation”. Click the green Save button, and this will open the link popup box labeled “Edit Link Item”. From here, you can choose whether this link is internal (a page on the site), external (a page outside of the site), a document or picture uploaded to the File Manager, or an email address. If “No Link” is selected, this item in the navigation bar will just be text that looks like other items but does not link to anything.
If you want to keep a page but prevent it from publishing online, right click the page and select Page Properties. In the General tab, toggle off Publish Page and click Save. Not only will this prevent the page from showing up in navigation, but it will prevent it from showing up anywhere on the site.
Subsites will appear in the Pages section with an arrow icon on the left, and the pages of subsites will not appear until the subsite has been logged in to. To log into a subsite, access will need to be granted with Site Users, but Site Administrators and Developers will be able to access all subsites for a site. Subsites can be logged into from the dashboard, but can be logged into through the Pages section by clicking to select, and then clicking the Edit button. A popup will say “If you wish to edit this subsite, it must be checked out. Would you like to check out this subsite?”. If given access, clicking OK will open the subsite and all subpages.
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