Creating a New Page

New pages are created from Add New in the Site Edit toolbar. This article shows you how to pick the right page type, optionally add the page to your header menu, build its content with modules, and publish it to your live site.

Before you begin: New pages are created from Add New. After you create a page, use Settings and modules (or on-page editing) to finish its content. Changes stay in a Site Edit draft until you PUBLISH.

What you need

Gather these before you start so you can finish the page in one session:

  • The site you want to update, available in My Sites.
  • The page's purpose, so you can choose the matching page type.
  • The page title and the slug you want in the URL (for example, about).
  • Your text and images, or enough of a starting point to draft with AI.
  • A decision about navigation: whether this page belongs in the header menu.

Open Site Edit

From My Sites, find the site you want to update and select SITE EDIT.

The SITE EDIT button on a site card

Site Edit opens with a live preview of your site and a toolbar across the top that includes Pages, Add New, Settings, and Ask AI.

Open Add New

In the Site Edit toolbar, select Add New.

The Add New panel with page types
  1. Pages: Choose the Pages tab (default) to create regular pages and blog posts. The Lead Capture and Listings tabs contain their own page types.
  2. Module: Add a module to the page you are currently viewing instead of creating a new page.
  3. Default Page: Create a general-purpose content page.
  4. Blog post: Create a blog post (see Creating a Blog Post).
  5. Add to header menu: When checked, the new page is also added to the site header navigation.

Other page types in the grid include About, Contact, Landing Page, Home Valuation, area and testimonial pages, and IDX listing pages when available for your account.

Choose a page type

  1. Confirm the Pages tab is selected.
  2. Decide whether Add to header menu should be on.
  3. Select the page type that matches what you want to create (for example, Default Page, About, or Contact).

Use these guidelines when you are deciding:

  • Default Page is the right choice for most content — services, team profiles, neighborhood guides, policy pages.
  • About, Contact, Landing Page, and Home Valuation start you off with a page built for that purpose, so pick one of these instead of a Default Page when it matches your goal.
  • Check the Lead Capture and Listings tabs for lead and IDX page types before falling back to a Default Page you would have to build from scratch.
  • Module is not a page type. If you only want to add a section to the page already in the preview, choose Module and see Working with Modules.

Site Edit creates the page and loads it in the preview so you can continue editing.

Expected result: the new page appears in the preview, the Settings drawer's first section is labeled This Page, and the draft bar shows a pending change because the new page is part of your Site Edit draft until you publish.

Add the page to your navigation

If you checked Add to header menu, the page is added to the header navigation. If you left it off, the page is still created — it just isn't in the menu yet. In that case you can:

  • Link to it from a module or button on another page. Button controls in the on-page palette let you point at a page on your site.
  • Link to it from a sidebar widget on the pages where it is relevant. See Working with Widgets.
  • Leave it unlinked on purpose for pages you only share by URL, such as a landing page used in a campaign.

Keep the header menu short. Pages that support other content are usually better linked in context than added to top-level navigation.

Finish the page

With the new page open in the preview:

  1. Select Settings to set the Page title, Slug, Status, and SEO.
  2. Use Modules (or Add New → Module) to build the page content.
  3. Optionally edit sections directly on the preview with the on-page palette.

The This Page section includes these core tabs. Specialized page types can show additional tabs for controls such as forms or listings:

  • General: Page title, Slug (the last part of the page's web address), Status (Published, Draft, or Private), and SEO settings for Meta title, Meta description, and No index. It also holds Accessible for logged in users only and Password protect if you need to restrict access. See Page and Post SEO.
  • Modules: Select Manage modules to add, reorder, or edit the sections that make up the page. Pages do not have a single rich-text body field, so this is where the page content lives.
  • Widgets: Choose the sidebar position (Left, None, or Right) and manage the sidebar widgets for this page.
  • Design: Control Show title on the page, Content width (Fullwidth, 2/3, or 1/2), and Enable background image.

To write and adjust content quickly, hover a section in the preview and edit it by hand or with AI, or use the blue + control to insert a module exactly where you want it. See Editing Content on the Page.

Publish your changes

When you are ready for visitors to see the new page and any other pending edits, select PUBLISH in the draft bar. Use DISCARD if you want to remove unpublished Site Edit changes instead.

Important: Creating a page does not by itself publish your Site Edit draft. Use PUBLISH to apply pending draft changes to the live site, and use the page Status control if you need the page itself set to Draft or Private.

For more about applying or removing pending changes, see Publishing and Discarding Drafts.

Troubleshooting

  • The page is blank after you create it. That is expected for a page with no modules yet. Open Settings → Modules → Manage modules, or use the blue + control on the preview, to add sections.
  • Your settings changed the wrong page. Settings always apply to the page currently shown in the preview. Open Pages, select the page you meant to edit, then reopen Settings.
  • A preview link does not load the page you expected. Open Pages and select the page directly.
  • The page isn't in the header menu. Add to header menu was off when the page was created. Link to the page from a module, button, or widget instead.
  • Visitors can't see the page after publishing. Check Status on the General tab, and confirm Accessible for logged in users only and Password protect are off.
  • The URL isn't what you expected. Update Slug on the General tab, then publish again.
  • You added a module instead of a page. The Module card adds a section to the page in the preview. Return to Add New, keep the Pages tab selected, and choose a page type card such as Default Page.

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