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Website pages

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Pages are the site. Each is built from a template and filled with blocks and content.

Creating one

  1. Choose a template — the layout the page uses. The template preview shows what you are picking.
  2. Give it a name and its address on the site.
  3. Add the content.
  4. Decide whether tribes or team members may customise it.

Additional fields

The Additional Fields card contains the content the page template needs. Fields may be grouped into named sections to make a longer page easier to work through. Enter or replace the content in each field, then save the page.

Why your Additional Fields card may not show setup controls
Field names, sections and order are maintained by an organisation Developer or a Gorilla Dash administrator. Most people editing a page only need to enter its content.

To give someone these setup controls, assign the Developer role when managing their organisation roles. Being an organisation owner does not grant developer access on its own.

Choose the field type when adding a field. To use a different type, add a replacement field and enter its content before removing the old field. Removing a saved field asks for confirmation; saving the page then permanently deletes that field and its content. When translating a page, edit the translated content; return to the original language to change field names, sections or order.

Related items

The Related Items tab links other records to the page: products and services, product ranges, product categories, tribes, food listings and blog articles. A tribe is one location, branch or business unit inside your organisation. Whether these links appear on the website, and where, depends on the page template, so check the live page after saving.

  1. Open the page, then select the Related Items tab.
  2. In Related Articles, type part of an article heading and choose the article from the list. Repeat for each article you want to link. Draft articles are labelled Draft.
  3. Once two or more articles are chosen, a list appears underneath. Drag the rows into the order the website should show them.
  4. Select Save. Nothing is changed until you save the page.
Why a linked article may not show yet
Only published articles appear on the website. A draft article you link stays on the page and takes its place in the order shortly after it is published. An article deleted after you linked it is labelled Deleted in the list; remove it and save.

Cloning

Cloning an existing page is usually quicker than starting again — the layout, blocks and structure come with it and you replace the words. It is also how you keep a set of service pages consistent with each other.

Order

Pages can be sorted, which affects where they appear in listings and menus. Put the pages customers actually want first — that is rarely the order they were built in.

DELETING A PAGE BREAKS ITS LINKS
Anything pointing at it — a search result, another page, a printed leaflet — stops working. If a page is being retired, set up a redirect to whatever replaces it before deleting.