Step by step

1. Open the Pages list

   In the left-hand menu, find the Website group and click Pages. The CMS takes you to your organisation's page list.

2. Review the pages on your site

   The list is split into two groups: the seven built-in pages your site draws on (home, officers, events, news, galleries, contact, join) and any pages you have written yourself. Each card shows the page title, its web address, its status, who last edited it and when, and whether there are unpublished changes waiting. If no organisation is selected the screen shows a prompt to choose one instead of the list.

3. Open a page or start a new one

   You have three ways in. To edit a built-in page that has never been touched, click the Edit button on its card. To edit any page that already exists, click its Edit link. To create a brand-new page from scratch, click Write a new page in the header — that button appears only if you have permission to create pages.

4. Let the CMS create the record for a built-in page

   If you clicked Edit on a built-in page that did not yet exist, the CMS quietly creates a draft record behind the scenes with the correct slug and a status of Draft before dropping you into the editor. This step happens automatically; you do not need to do anything.

5. Work with the editor and live preview side by side

   The page editor opens with a live-preview pane already visible beside your form. The preview shows your site at Phone (390 px), Tablet (768 px), or Desk (1440 px) — select the breakpoint that suits you. The preview updates as you fill in fields.

6. Fill in the title, slug, status, and navigation settings

   Enter a title (required) and a slug (required — the CMS generates one from the title if you leave it blank, lower-cased and hyphenated). Set the status to Draft or Published. The nav order defaults to 100 — adjust it if needed. A hero image upload field is also available.

7. Add sections using the block picker

   Scroll to the Page sections area and click Add Block. A picker lists all 37 available block types, grouped by purpose, each showing its name, a short description of its layout, and a thumbnail where one is available. Click a block type to add it to the page.

8. Choose from the 37 block types in the library

   The library covers every common need: three opening blocks (carousel, static picture, page banner); text and layout blocks including prose, picture-beside-words, name rolls, and dated history; card sets; record-drawn blocks that pull in live data such as events, leaders, officers, albums, and meeting times; quotation blocks; invitation blocks like contact panels and calls to action; commerce blocks for menus and shops; an FAQ accordion; and a papers-to-download block.

9. Fill in the fields for each block you add

   Every block type has its own set of fields — images, text, links, and so on — which appear inline in the editor once you add the block. Fill them in as needed. The live-preview pane updates as you type so you can see how the section will look.

10. Optionally add SEO and sharing details

    At the bottom of the form there is a Search and sharing group. You can enter an SEO title (if left blank it defaults to your page title plus the organisation name), a description, and a social-sharing image. All three fields are optional.

11. Save the page

    Click Save to store the page as a draft, or switch the status to Published and click Save and publish to make it live. On every save the CMS records who edited the page and when; if you publish, it also records when the page first went live and who published it.

12. Check your draft in preview or confirm the published page is live

    A Draft page is accessible only through the signed preview address shown in the live-preview pane and on the page list — visitors cannot see it yet. A Published page is immediately live at your organisation's public address: the home slug becomes the root of your domain, and every other slug becomes its own path.

What happens next

You now have a page document in your organisation's pages collection. It has a title, a slug, a status, and one or more sections built from the block library. The CMS has recorded who last edited it and, if you published it, exactly when it went live and who pressed publish.

Good to know

The seven built-in slugs — home, officers, events, news, galleries, contact, and join — are reserved. When you first edit one of them the CMS creates the record for you and enforces the correct slug automatically.