How to add web pages

Overview

• Wild Apricot allows you to add as many web pages as you need.
• Pages are automatically added to your website navigation menu. (You can hide them from the menu by making them a child of an invisible page).
• You can keep a page invisible to others while you are working on it. See Page visibility]
• You can organize your website menu into a 'tree' with up to three nested levels. See more: Subpages and multi-level pages
• You can restrict page access to specific membership levels or members belonging to particular groups. See Website Pages with Restricted Access
• There are two different types of pages - pages with content (text, pictures etc.) and pages with interactive functionality (online forms, member directory etc.) See Content pages vs. functional pages
• New trial accounts come with a few sample pages to help you get started. You can edit these sample pages or delete them as needed.

You can add new pages in one of two ways

Adding a new page - Via Web Pages

Go to Webpages tab and click on [Add page].



This will bring up a window where you can select page type, which can either be a Content page:


Or you can choose a Functional page:

• Page name: Enter the new page name as you want it to appear on the website menu.
  • Check the 'Visible' checkbox if you want this page to immediately become available to the public and/or members. Otherwise, leave it empty and it will only be accessible to authorized website administrators. You can edit this page to make it visible at any time.
  • Tip: You can use this option to save page drafts you are working on until you are ready to share them with the world.
• Access: Specify whether you want the page to be visible to everyone or only to logged-in members. (See Website Pages with Restricted Access - you can specify which member levels have access to these pages)
• Where to insert - specify where to place this new page in the menu (you can always move it anytime later). You can place a page After (below) or as a Child of an existing page - select that page in the dropdown field.
  • Note: If you have set page Access to be Members-only, page can only be placed within Members-only section in the website menu.
• Content pages vs. Functional pages- select one of the tabs and select a desired layout for the page (default is a blank page) or a desired functionality to be placed on the page.

Now click on [Create] button and new page will be created.

• If it is a content page, you will be in the edit mode and can type in text, insert pictures and documents, format it etc. To save your changes, click on the [Publish] button
• If it is a functional page, you will see the resulting page and can change its setting by clicking on [Edit Settings] button
  
  

Adding a new page - Via Page Management

To go into Page Management go to the Web pages tab and click on [Manage this page] button (or Page Management link) or goto Settings / Page Management, see Page Management.

Click on [Add new page] to bring up the new page settings:

• Page name: This is the name that would appear in the web pages menu.
• Custom URL: You can define your own custom url for the new page, see also Custom Urls.
• Type: Choose whether to create a Content page or a Functional page, see Content pages vs. functional pages
• Page Template: Click the down arrow on the right of the page template (to bring up all the possible page templates) and select the page you want to create.
• Access: Set whether the page should be accessible to:
  • Anybody: Anyone can view the page - this setting is disabled for access restricted section pages.
  • Selected membership levels - Applies to access restricted pages only, otherwise this setting is disabled.
  • Selected groups - Applies to access restricted pages only, otherwise this is setting is disabled.
  • Admin only - The page is hidden and only administrators can view the page

Click on [Save Page Structure] to create and save your new page settings.

Copying Pages

To copy a page you will first need to click on it from within the Page manager and then click on the copy link.

The copied page will appear below the original page and the page name will be prefixed "Copy X of " (X being the number of the copy).

On Free and Group plans, you will not be able to copy restricted access sections because you are only allowed one restricted access section on those plans. See Functionality by billing plan

Deleting Pages

To delete a page you will first need to click on it from within the Page manager and then click on the delete link.

Content pages - Page templates

Content Page templates allow you to start with a convenient layout, and you can choose a single or multi-column/row page:



You are not stuck with this initially selected layout - you can always edit the page to switch to another layout, see Layouts