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.

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