Pages, menus & publishing

A page, its place in the menu, and its listing in search are three separate switches. Creating a page does not add it to the navigation. Publishing a page does not put it in the menu. Being published is not the same as being in the sitemap. Decide each one on purpose, and a new page lands exactly where you intend: published or draft, in the menu or not, in the sitemap or not.

Edit a page

  1. Open Website and browse to the page you want to change.
  2. Click Edit to open the block editor.
  3. Drag blocks from the side panel onto the page, then click any text or image to edit it in place. If your workspace ships custom brand blocks, they sit in their own group in the panel.
  4. Click Save to keep your changes.

Create a page

  1. In the Website app, open the New menu and choose Page.
  2. Give the page a name; the platform builds its address from the name.
  3. Build the page with blocks, then save.
  4. A new page is unpublished by default. It stays invisible to visitors until you publish it (next section).

Publish, or keep a draft

The publish switch is the difference between a live page and a draft.

  1. Open the page and find the Published switch in the top bar.
  2. Turn it on to make the page live. Turn it off to pull it back to a draft only your team can see.
  3. To line a page up for later, set a future publish date on a published page. It stays hidden from the public until that date and time, then goes live on its own.

Put a page in the menu

Menu membership is separate from publishing. A published page with no menu entry is reachable only by its address; a menu entry pointing at an unpublished page is a dead link. Decide both when you add a page.

  1. In the Website app, open Site → Menu Editor.
  2. Add an entry for your page, or drag existing entries to reorder them. An entry higher in the list sits further left in the navigation bar.
  3. Nest an entry under another to make a drop-down.
  4. To link somewhere outside your site, add a menu entry with an external address, and set it to open in a new tab if you want.
  5. Deleting a menu entry removes the link, not the page. The page stays live at its address.

Keep a page out of search

Being in the sitemap is a third switch, separate from publishing. A page can be live and still left out of search results, which is useful for a thin landing page or a duplicate you don't want indexed.

  • On the page's SEO panel, the indexing switch decides whether the page joins your sitemap and is offered to search engines.
  • Turn indexing off to keep a live page out of the sitemap. Watch drafts you have flagged for indexing: they enter the sitemap the moment you publish them.

More on the SEO panel is in SEO & getting found.

Set who can see a page

Page visibility is its own setting, separate from whether the page is published.

Visibility Who sees the page
Public Anyone on the internet
Signed in Only people signed in to your site
Restricted group Only members of a group you choose
Password Anyone with the password you set

Set visibility on the page's properties. A public, published page is the default; tighten it when a page is meant for a smaller audience.

Redirect a renamed or retired URL

When you change a page's address or take a page down, add a redirect so old links and search rankings carry over to the new address.

  1. In the Website app, open Site → Redirects and create a redirect.
  2. Set the from address (the old URL) and the to address (where it should go).
  3. Choose the type. A 301 is permanent and passes search ranking to the new address; use it for a real move. A 302 is temporary. A 404 marks an address as gone for good.
  4. Add the redirect before you unpublish the old page, so no link ever hits a dead address.

A redirect can hide a live page

Redirects are matched before pages. If a redirect's from address matches a page that is still live, the redirect wins and the page becomes unreachable. Only redirect addresses you have genuinely retired.

Where colors and fonts live

Site-wide colors and fonts are not page settings. Change them once under Website settings → Customize → Colors and every page follows. New sites start in plain black and white; anything you pick overrides that default. More in Website Builder.

Turn a page into leads

The highest-value page on most sites is the contact form. A submission on your contact page creates a CRM lead automatically, tagged with the Website medium. Forms & lead capture covers routing those leads to the right team and where custom form answers end up.

Last reviewed: 2026-07-19

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