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Add and organise pages

Add, remove and rename pages, keep your menu tidy, and hide a page while you work on it.

Add a page

Ask in Tell Lanlan:

  • "Add a Menu page with our breakfast and lunch menus."
  • "Make a page for each of our three services, in the same style as the About page."

Lanlan builds the page to match the rest of the site and adds it to the menu. If it doesn't, ask: "Add the Menu page to the navigation."

Remove or rename a page

  • "Delete the old Services page."
  • "Rename the Team page to About us, at /about-us."

When a page's address changes or a page goes away, ask Lanlan to send the old address somewhere useful, so old links and search results don't break: "Send /team to /about-us." Short links and redirects.

The Pages & SEO page

Pages & SEO lists every page on your site, with its title and description and a note of anything missing. For each page you can:

  • Open in builder — open it in Tell Lanlan.
  • Edit on the page — change its words and pictures directly (published pages). Change words and pictures yourself.
  • View — see it live.
  • Edit SEO — set the title and description search engines show, and how the page looks when it's shared on social media. SEO and getting found.
  • Share link — make a link to the page with tracking tags, a short link or a QR code (published pages).
  • Publish / Unpublish — see below.

Hide one page while you work on it

Press Unpublish on a page, or ask: "Make the Pricing page a draft for now." The page disappears from your public site and from the list of pages search engines are given, while the rest of the site stays live. Press Publish when it's ready. If your site waits for you to publish, also press Publish in Tell Lanlan to put the page back live. The Pages & SEO page tells you if nothing on your site links to a page yet, so you can ask Lanlan to add it to the menu.

To show a hidden page to someone, use Preview ↗ on the Pages & SEO page for a link that works for 15 minutes, or ask Lanlan for a longer one: "Make a preview link for the Pricing page that lasts three days." (Up to 7 days.)

This is different from your whole site's draft: sites made in the dashboard keep all changes in a draft until you press Publish. Publish your changes.

Your header and footer

The top of your site (logo and menu) and the bottom (contact details, links) are shared by every page. Change them once and every page updates — by asking Lanlan, or by clicking them on the page. The Brand Guide lists these shared parts under Components, with how many pages use each one.

If you find you're repeating the same section on several pages, ask: "Turn the opening-hours box into a shared section I can update in one place."

Other page settings

Site settings has switches that apply to the whole site, for the site's owner: publishing, search engines, a site password, letting visitors install the site like an app on their phone, a stricter security setting for scripts, and allowing other websites to show your pages inside theirs. Ask Lanlan if you're not sure what you need.

What to try next

If you get stuck

Ask Lanlan. In Tell Lanlan, "I can't figure out how to…" almost always gets you unstuck. For anything Lanlan can't help with, email support.