With Sitefinity CMS, content authors can create pages in a simplified and seamless manner. When creating a new page, you only need to provide the essential properties of a page. At any point in time, you can further configure the page behavior by defining additional page settings. Once you create your pages, you can easily reorder and manage them from the list of pages screen. Searching for a specific page is made easy with advanced filtering and sorting options.
To create a Sitefinity CMS page, perform the following:
Optionally, you can create a page as a child of another page by selecting the checkbox of the parent page and clicking Create a page.
NOTE: Be aware that URL names should be unique
NOTE: Sitefinity CMS uses a regular expression to create SEO-friendly URLs from the page name. For example, whitespace is replaced with a dash. If you need to modify the regular expression behavior, refer to the Replace special characters in Page URLs article from the Sitefinity Knowledge Base.
NOTE: This step is mandatory. If you want to start from scratch and define your page layout directly using the layout editor, select the default template for the corresponding framework. The default template contains one placeholder.
If you need to modify additional page properties, see the Modify page title and properties section below..
Sitefinity CMS pages expose additional properties that enable you to further control a page’s behavior. These properties can be accessed via the page edit screen, by clicking on the More options button , located in the upper right corner of the screen, and selecting the Title & properties option. Alternatively, you can select Title & properties from the Actions context menu available for every page in the list of pages screen.
The Title & properties screen enables you to change all properties, you specified when creating a page. Additionally, you can adjust the following settings:
Site search and search engines
Other options
Caching options
Configuring caching can increase your website performance. These settings allow you to configure caching per page. Select one of the following:
NOTE: You must not use caching for ecommerce pages.
For more information about applying caching to the entire site or changing the parameters of short and long caching, see Cache settings.
Canonical URL
These settings allow you to configure canonical URLs per page.
For more information about canonical URL configuration, see Enable and disable Canonical URLs service HTML included in the <head> tag (except title and description)
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Code behind type (for ASP.NET developers)
You use keywords to fine-tune internal search results. You can add keywords to pages with the New UI using custom fields. To do this, perform the following:
The next step is to add the newly created custom field to a search index and reindex it. To add the custom field to a search index, perform the following:
For more information, see Create search indexes.
The next step is to configure the Search results widget. To do that, perform the following:
RESULT: Your search results include the keywords from your custom field. You can further customize the Search box widget to state whether the keywords should be included in search suggestions when users type in the search box. For more information, see Search box widget. You can also customize the Search results widget to highlighted the keywords in the search results. For more information, see Search results widget.
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