Website pages, menu and publishing

The Pages and Menu & footer tabs on Website (sidebar, under Grow) are where your site takes shape. This article is the map of both. For how to start, see Your website (beta).

The Pages tab

The top of the list says how many pages you have and how many are not live yet, for example 6 pages · 2 not live yet. Each row shows the page's name and address, whether it is live, and a column that reads In the menu, Not in the menu, Members only or Password. A house marks your home page, and a lock marks a page that is members only or behind a password. The same list opens as a sheet over the page editor, so you can jump between pages without leaving it.

New page opens the design gallery on single pages, such as About, Services, Contact, Team and Pricing, or a blank page. The new page is a draft and joins the end of your menu.

A page's menu

The three dots at the end of a row open:

• Edit: opens the page in the editor.

• Page details: its name, address, who can see it and its search text. See below.

• Duplicate: a copy with its sections, look and settings, as a new draft at a new address.

• Make home, or Stop using as home on the home page. Make home puts this page at your address itself, in place of whatever held it. The old home stays at its own address. Stopping home with no replacement sends visitors to your join page.

• Publish or Unpublish.

• Delete.

A page you delete here is gone from the site. A deleted page comes back as a draft from a site restore point: see History below.

Page details

Choose Page details from a page's menu. Name and address save when you leave the field, and the search text has its own Save button.

• Page name: what the page is called.

• Web address: lowercase letters, numbers and single hyphens. Your home page has none, because it lives at your address.

• Who can see it: Everyone, Members (signed-in members of your community) or Password. For a password page you choose the password, and it is never shown back to you, so Change password sets a new one. Your home page is always public. Make another page the home page first if you want to lock this one.

• How it looks in Google and when shared: a preview of the search result. Edit sets a search title (up to 70 characters) and a search description (up to 200). Left empty, Drry writes them from the page.

• The page's own head code, saved with your site's custom code. See Look, address, search and code.

To keep a page out of search results, switch on Hide from search engines in the editor's page settings. It then leaves your sitemap and your /llms.txt file too. See What search and AI engines see. A members only or password page is never listed.

The Menu & footer tab

The menu and footer are shared by every page, so you set them once. The tab has a Menu half and a Footer half, with a preview on the right headed How visitors see it.

• Header style: Standard, Glass, Pill, Hide on scroll, or Over your photo, which lays the header over the first section.

• Arrangement: Logo left, or Centered.

• In the menu: drag entries to reorder them. An entry can be a page, a link or a dropdown.

• The header's button, an announcement bar, and whether the header stays on screen while a visitor scrolls.

• Footer: its links, and its other settings such as a tagline, social icons and an email signup.

Changes save as you make them and are kept in History, where each one can be undone.

History

The History tab has two halves. This page lists one page's earlier versions, and Whole site lists restore points and menu changes.

• A restore point is your whole website at a moment: every page, the menu, the header and the footer. One is saved when you first publish, and before a template, a restore or a delete. Save a restore point makes one on demand, with a name if you like.

• Restore website puts it all back. A page deleted since comes back as a draft, at its old address when that is free, with its photos. A page made since is left alone. It never moves an address or changes what is published, and your site as it is now is kept first, so a restore can be undone.

• Undo this change takes back one menu, header or footer change.