Edit and delete a page
There are two ways to edit a page. You can edit the properties of a page, such as name, title, description and you can edit the content of a page, such as adding layout elements and widgets.
Editing the properties of a page
You can edit the properties of a page, such as title, keywords, name, etc.
- Edit the properties of a page in one of the following ways:
- On Pages page, click the Actions link of the respective page and in the dropdown list, click Title & Properties.
- In page content editing mode, click Title & Properties link in the toolbar.
- The Edit a page page appears.
- Perform procedure Create a page» Step 3.
NOTE: The system does not display the selection of template section. You can change the template directly from the page content editing mode by clicking Layout and then Select another template... button in the lower-right corner of the page.
Perform procedure Apply a template to a page» Step 2 and Step 3.
- When you are finished, click Save changes.
The system returns you either to Pages page or to page editing mode, depending on where you have started.
Edit the content of a page
You can edit the content of a page, such as layout elements and widgets.
- To do this, on Pages page, perform one of the following:
- Click the name of the page.
NOTE: If the page you have clicked is a group page, the system opens the Edit a page page, where you can edit the properties of the page.
- Click the Actions link of the respective page and click Content.
NOTE: A group page has no content and under Actions there is no Content link.
- The page opens in content editing mode.
In content editing mode you can Design a layout template and Apply a template to a page.
- When you are finished editing the page, perform one of the following:
- If you have opened for editing a page in status Draft, Unpublished, or Rejected, perform procedure Manage pages and content items in status Draft, Unpublished, or Rejected.
- If you have opened for approving a page in status Awaiting approval, perform procedure Manage pages and content items in status Awaiting approval.
- If you have opened for publishing a page in status Awaiting publishing, perform procedure Manage pages and content items in status Awaiting publishing.
- If you have opened for editing a page in status Published or Scheduled, perform procedures Manage pages and content items in status Published or Manage pages and content items in status Scheduled respectively.
If you are editing a published page, the system saves a draft of that
page, but the published version is still visible on the webpage. To see,
which version is the currently published one, see Revision history of pages.
NOTE: In page content editing mode, you can see a preview of the page by clicking Preview button in the toolbar. The preview of the page is not a fully functioning page as it will appear on the live site. Use it to get an overall idea of how the page will look like. If you want to test how the page will look like and work of the live site, publish the page and click Live site in the upper-right corner of the screen. For example, if you use the preview mode, links to content items do not work.
Delete pages
To delete a page perform one of the following:
- On Pages page, select one or more pages to delete and click Delete button.
- On Pages page, click the Actions link of the page you want to delete and click Delete.
A dialog box appears where you must confirm the deletion.
If you activated the Recycle bin module, the page is not permanently deleted, but moved to the Recycle bin. You can later restore or permanently delete the page from the recycle bin. For more information, see Recycle bin.
IMPORTANT: You cannot delete a parent page. If you want to do this, you must first move or delete all of its children.
IMPORTANT: If the page has translations, the system asks you, if you want to delete only the current translation of the page or all translations of this page.