Browsing & organising pages

The Pages screen is where you find and open anything you want to edit. It’s built as a tree, not a flat list, because your site’s pages already have a real structure.

The page tree

Pages that have sub-pages appear with an expand arrow. For example:

Text
Pages
+-- Home
+-- About
|   +-- Team
|   +-- Careers
+-- 404

Expanding “About” reveals “Team” and “Careers” underneath it, matching how those pages are actually nested in the site’s URLs (/about/team, /about/careers). Menus are kept as a visually separate group from pages — a menu has no public URL of its own and isn’t a page, so it’s never mixed in with the page tree.

Status at a glance

Every row shows its name, type, current status (Live / Draft only / Live + draft pending), and when it last changed — so you can tell what needs attention without opening anything.

Searching and filtering

The search box filters the whole tree by name, title, or path as you type. The All Pages / Published / Unpublished tabs above it narrow the list further by status — useful for finding everything that’s still sitting as a draft, for example.

Large collections

A branch with many items — a blog with hundreds of posts, say — doesn’t behave differently just because it’s large. Every branch offers the same “View all” option, leading to a flat, filterable list of just that branch’s own contents. It’s there on every branch, not only big ones, so the tree always behaves the same way no matter what you’re looking at.

Opening a page

Click a page to show it in the preview. To edit it, choose Edit Page from its actions menu, or switch to Editor in the left rail. See Creating & editing pages for what happens next.

Page actions

Each page’s actions menu offers:

  • Edit Page — open it in the editor.
  • Add Child Page — create a new page underneath this one.
  • Duplicate Page — start a new page as a copy of this one.
  • Publish / Set as Draft — put the page live, or take it off the public site while keeping it. See Drafts, preview & publishing.
  • Delete Page — see below.

The Home page can’t be deleted, set as a draft, renamed or moved, since the site always needs one.

Moving a page

Drag a page by its handle onto another page to move it underneath. You’ll be asked to confirm, and shown the page’s new URL — for example, moving “Our People” under “Our Story” changes its URL to /story/people.

Nothing breaks when a page moves: every link to it on your site (in other pages, menus and site settings) is updated to the new URL automatically, and anyone arriving at the old URL — from a bookmark, a search result, another website — is sent on to the new one.

Deleting a page

Before a page is deleted, the confirmation lists everything on your site that links to it — other pages, menus, site settings — since those links would lead nowhere once it’s gone. You can also choose another page to send visitors to instead: its old URL then redirects there, which also rescues links from other websites and bookmarks. A page that has child pages can’t be deleted until they’re moved or deleted first.

Tip

Deleting is recorded in the site’s history like any other change, and a deleted page can be brought back: click Undo straight afterwards, or find it under Recently deleted for 90 days (see Bringing back a deleted page). If you want a page off the public site for now but may bring it back, Set as Draft is gentler: the page and its content stay, just hidden.

When a site is unreachable

If a site can’t currently be reached, or its access has been rejected, the Pages screen tells you plainly instead of showing a confusing empty list. An access problem points you to the site’s connection settings so someone with the right permissions can diagnose it — see Account & team.