ETFO HALTON - Halton Elementary Teachers of Ontario

The Pages Application is where most content editing work is done. This is where you edit, add, delete pages of the website.

To access the "Pages" application simply click on the "Pages" card on the dashboard or click on the Kentico logo in the top left of the CMS to open the application menu. From the application menu you can search "pages" or open it in the "Content Management" section of the menu.

Pages Application is divided into two main sections: the content tree on the left frame and the viewport on the right frame.

Overview

The content tree: this is a repository of page types that make up the content of the website. When an item is clicked it will display in the viewport.
Page types: elements that are contained in the content tree that represent content on the site. Page types do not necessarily have to be traditional pages of a website they are all the elements that make up pieces of a page. It is helpful to think of page types as content, containers of content, as well as pages.
Viewport tabs: Page, Content, Properties tabs will display different content selected from the content tree differently depending on how the page type is structured. For traditional content pages content is editable on the “Page” tab with the page builder and widgets. For page types that are pieces of content, the content is edited on the “Content” tab.

Please note: some pages may have content that is editable on all three tabs. An example of this is seen on traditional pages where the content edited on the “Page” tab, the title and template edited on the “Content” tab and the URL and meta-data is edited on the “Properties” tab

Page Tab

The "Page" tab is used for content editing within a page with the page builder. In the example below you can see the “Page” tab is selected, so you will see page content that is editable by clicking in the widgets on the page. We will go into details about the widgets here.

Content Tab

The "Content" tab is where consistent elements of a page and structured elements of a page are managed. The image below is an example of the same page edited on the “Content” tab.

Options on the content tab vary by page type.

For the "Content Page" page type

Title: name of page
Show breadcrumbs: will enable breadcrumbs
Only Show Child items: will only show the pages child items in the side navigation IF you have a the two column section type on your page
Do not show this page in the side navigation: will allow you to hide this page from other pages side navigation
Publish from: this is for if you want the page to go live in the future
Publish to: if you select "Now" then this will make you page unpublished. This feature is helpful if you are working on a draft of content and are not ready to go live.

Properties Tab

The properties tab includes some valuable information for content editing:

General is used for general page information. Created date, page type are used most frequently
URLs is used to add redirects for a page. If you have a URL that you are using for marketing you can add it as an "Alternative URL" and it will redirect, provided that the base url is the same as the website.
Metadata is used to add title and descriptions to pages
Navigation includes an option to show or hide a page from the menu. Make sure you uncheck this if you are creating a page you don't want added to the menu