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Pages and your site’s navigation

Create standalone pages like About and Contact, and choose what appears in your site’s menus.

Who can do this: Owners, Administrators and Editors can create pages. Only Owners and Administrators can change the navigation.

Posts are the stream of things you publish. Pages are for content that stays put: About, Contact, Advertise, a reading list, your editorial policy. Pages aren’t part of your homepage list or RSS feed and are never emailed, so they’re right for anything that isn’t news.

Create a page

  1. Select Pages in the sidebar, then New page.
  2. Write it in the same editor you use for posts. Every card works on pages too.
  3. Select Publish, then Publish again in the panel. Pages only go to your site; there’s no email option.
The Pages screen listing the site’s pages with their status, author and date, and a New page button.

Page settings work like post settings. Two are worth knowing about:

  • Page URL sets the address. Keep it short and simple, like about or advertise. Copy the full address with the button inside the field, ready to add to your menu.
  • Show title and feature image hides the title and feature image for landing-style pages, where you’d rather start with a Header card. If your theme doesn’t support this, the panel tells you.
A draft page in the editor with Page settings open: Page URL, publish date, tags, excerpt, authors, a Show title and feature image switch (on) and a Feature this page switch.

Add a page to your menu

Publishing a page doesn’t add it to your menu. You choose exactly what goes there.

  1. Go to Settings → Navigation and select Customize.
  2. On the Primary tab, type a label in New item label, such as Advertise.
  3. In the box next to it, enter the address. You can paste the page’s full address, or any other link: a tag page, an external site, an email address.
  4. Select + to add the item, then Save.
The Navigation section in Settings: “Set up primary and secondary menus”, with a Customize button.
The Navigation editor on the Primary tab: Home and About items with their addresses, a new item labelled Advertise linking to northern-ledger.blogaly.uk/advertise/, and Close and Save buttons.
Add a label and an address, select +, then Save.
  • Reorder items by dragging the handle on the left.
  • Rename an item by editing its label.
  • Remove an item with the bin icon on the right.

Primary and secondary menus

The Primary menu is the main one, usually at the top of every page. The Secondary menu is for less important links. Where each appears is up to your theme; many put the secondary menu in the footer. A new site’s secondary menu has a Sign up link, which opens the signup pop-up.

The Navigation editor on the Secondary tab with one item, Sign up, linking to #/portal/, and an empty new item row.
The top of the site: the menu items Home and About on the left, The Northern Ledger in the middle, and search, Sign in and Subscribe on the right.
The primary menu in the site header.

Good to know

  • Links to your own site are saved relative to it, so your menu keeps working if you connect your own domain later.
  • Menu links starting with #/portal/ open the signup and account pop-up. #/portal/signup opens straight to signup and #/portal/signin to sign-in. See the signup and account pop-up.
  • Changing a page’s URL breaks links to the old address, including menu items. Update the menu, and add a redirect for links elsewhere.
  • Pages can be members-only, just like posts. See who can read a post.
  • Menus that are too long wrap or collapse on phones. Five or six items is plenty.

Last checked against the product on 7 November 2026.

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Organising content with tagsGroup posts by topic with tags, give each topic its own page, and use internal tags to organise things behind the scenes.Publish now, schedule, or save a draftPublish a post to your site, email it to subscribers, schedule it for later, change it after it’s live, or take it down again.Logo, colours, fonts and layoutUse the design editor to add your logo and icon, pick an accent colour and fonts, and adjust your theme’s layout, with a live preview.Keep old links working with redirectsSend visitors from old addresses to the right page, and change how your site’s addresses are built with a routes file.

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