# Create and organise pages

Add pages, choose their addresses, nest them, and duplicate or delete them when things change.

For: Everyone editing a site

## Add a page

Pages live on the site Pages tab, and everything about them is chosen when you create one: a title, an address, a language and whether it appears in the menu. The address is the web address of the page, shown as it will be: /services for a page called Our services.

Pages nest by their address. A page at /services/boilers sits under /services, which organises the menu without any separate setting. The home page has the empty address; another page can take its place with Make this the home page.

Walkthrough: Adding a page and choosing its address (The Pages tab, then The Add a page dialog)

1. **Add page**: Everything about a page is chosen when you create it, and changed later on the same page.
2. **The title**: Shown in search results and the browser tab. "Our services and prices" is fine; the menu has its own shorter name.
3. **The address**: Lower-case words with hyphens. This one becomes /our-services, shown as you type.
4. **In the menu or not**: A page out of the menu is not hidden; it is simply reached by a link rather than listed.
5. **Add the page**: It arrives empty and selected, ready for its first section.

1. Open the site and go to Pages.
2. Choose Add page and fill in the title and address.
3. Decide whether it starts in the menu, and add it.

## Order and nesting

The list drags into any order you like; the order here is the order in the menu. Nested pages appear as their own section under the parent, or fold away entirely if the parent is hidden.

Grouping related pages under a parent is almost always tidier than eight flat menu items. If a group grows past a handful of children, consider whether the parent page itself should summarise them.

Walkthrough: Order and nesting in the page list (The Pages tab)

1. **Drag to reorder**: The order here is the order in the menu. Pages nest by their address, grouped by language.
2. **A row per page**: Title, address and badges, with the home page always first and unable to move.
3. **The badges tell the story**: In the menu, a language, an off-menu eye, or 404. The list is a summary of the whole site.

Note: The address decides nesting, not the order. Moving an address from /boilers to /services/boilers moves the page under its parent.

## The page menu, duplicate, delete and the safety net

Each page in the list has a menu, and right-clicking the row opens the same one: open it in the editor, preview the draft, open it on the website, rename, duplicate, show it in or hide it from the menu, make it the home page or the 404 page, add a version in another language, and delete. Duplicate makes a copy of a page with the same sections, ready for new text. Deleting a page asks you to confirm by name, because the confirmation should be read rather than clicked through.

A deleted page stays on the live website until a publish includes its removal: the Publish dialog lists it as removed, and you choose when it goes. Version history keeps every published version, so an earlier one, with the page in it, can be restored into the draft later. After a publish that removes a page, visitors asking for its old address see the 404 page rather than a redirect, unless you add one.

Walkthrough: Duplicating and deleting from the row menu (The Pages tab)

1. **The row menu**: Duplicate, Delete, translations and versions all live behind the ellipsis on a row.
2. **Deletion asks a question**: You confirm by name, because the confirmation should be read rather than clicked through.

Warning: Renaming an address breaks links people may already have. If a page has been shared or is in search results, add a redirect from the old address to the new one on the Redirects tab.

## How many pages can a website have?

There is no practical limit for ordinary sites. Hundreds of pages stay manageable through nesting.

## Can I take a page out of the menu but keep it online?

Yes. Switch off Show in the menu. The page stays at its address for anyone with the link.

## Related guides

- [Edit the menu](/help/pages-and-menu/edit-the-menu)
- [Set up the 404 page](/help/pages-and-menu/set-up-the-404-page)
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