Basic Page

The Basic page is the most commonly used type of content. It has a variety of ways to display your content in a unique and customizable way. It’s easy to add to the navigation structure and has quite a few features for displaying photos, media and links.

Add Basic Page

1. Using the admin menu: select Content > Add content.
2. Select Basic page from the list of options.

Title Field

This is the title of your page.

Body/Content Area:

When creating and editing your pages, you have access to a page editor. Highlight the portion of the text that you need to format and then click the appropriate button to add the formatting.

Elements of the Editor:

• Bold, italics, superscript, subscript
• Align text; make a bulleted or numbered list; indent and outdent; block quote
• Undo, redo.
• Hyperlink text.
• Insert media; insert horizontal rule; insert special characters; insert table.
• Insert simple scripts such as icons, box, button, button group, map, calendar, count up, count down or call out.
• Paragraph Headings Text Styles and view page source HTML.

Configuration Sidebar: Publishing

Check publishing information or delete the page.

1. Displays publishing status. You will see either the date /time of last save and page author or Not saved yet.
2. Toggle for Create new revision. You may also want to create a revision of the page. Use revisions to create back-ups of changed pages. You can revert back to them if necessary. This is enabled by default, you will create a new version of the page every time you save. When disabled, you will be able to save edits but you will not have a revision history. Note: This option only appears after you have saved a page.
3. Uncheck the Published option.
4. Delete button. This action cannot be undone.

Configuration Sidebar: Menu settings

Configure the Menu settings. 

1. Expand the Menu settings section.
2. Enable Provide a menu link  to add the page to your site navigation.
3. The Menu link title is what displays in the navigation. Adjust if necessary.
4. Description: (optional) Shown when hovering over the menu link.
5. The Parent Link places the page in the menu structure of your site. Click the Parent item drop-down and select the parent of your page. 
6. Weight: Use the weight to order your pages in the navigation. Menu links with smaller weights are displayed before links with larger weights. 

Configuration Sidebar: Social Sharing

Configure the thumbnail image to be displayed when sharing page on social media platforms. 

1. Expand the Social Sharing section.
2. Click Add media to add an image.

Configuration Sidebar: Scheduling options

The URL alias is the text that appears in the URL bar at the top of the browser screen. You have the option to create a custom URL for your page. This is typically done for marketing purposes. Change if necessary.

1. Expand the Scheduling options section.
2. Enter a date and time in the Published on field.
3. Leave the date blank for no scheduled publishing.

Configuration Sidebar: URL alias

The URL alias is the text that appears in the URL bar at the top of the browser screen. You have the option to create a custom URL for your page. This is typically done for marketing purposes. Change if necessary.

1. Expand the URL alias section.
2. Uncheck Generate automatic URL alias.
3. URL alias: Specify an alternative path by which this page can be accessed. For example, type "/about" when writing changing the URL for an "/about-us" page.

Configuration Sidebar: URL redirect

You can redirect your site visitors from one url to another. This is useful if you are redirecting traffic from a deleted page and want to be sure that your visitors end up on the correct new pages, or if you want to have some shorter vanity urls within your site for marketing purposes.

1. Expand the URL redirects section.
2. Click Add URL redirect.

Configure URL redirect

1. From: enter the url path you want to redirect. The path must be a url within your site. 

2. To: Enter the destination of the redirect. The destination must be a url within your site. (example /training/web-core)

   Note: Use the url path alias, instead of the node number of the page. This will help all site maintainers to be able to see what URL paths are being redirected easily. If you use the node number it will make troubleshooting any issues more cumbersome to correct. Do not use the full URL for internal content.

3. Advanced Options: Unless you know what the redirect status codes do, it is best to leave the advanced options in the default state.
4. Click Save.

Save a Draft

1. Uncheck the Published option to save the page as a draft.
2. Click Save.

Preview

1. Click the Preview button to see what the page will look like live on the site.
2. Click Back to content editing to return to the page editor.

Save Your Page

Click Save.