Adding/moving a page

So you’ve made a new page (or changed the name of a page, or changed where it lives in your site.) Great! There are still a few steps left to make sure it’s correctly linked to the rest of your site. You’ll only have to do this once, per new page but until you do, most users won’t be able to find your page.

If you haven’t already…

Designate a parent page and publish your new page. If the idea of a parent page sounds unfamiliar, revisit Make page stubs before moving on.

Connect to navigation menus

Now it’s time to make sure your page shows up in your header and/or sub-navigations. The process is the same for any menu where your page needs to appear. This can include:

  • Header main menu
  • Header dropdown
  • Roles filter
  • Research areas filter
  • Utility navigation
  • Footer navigation

Add to sub-navigation

Go to the Dashboard, then Appearance > Editor

Go to Navigation and select the sub-navigation menu for the section where this new page lives.

Click in the page view (big, white area) to open the editor.

Click again, on the navigation menu so that a box with a plus sign (the add block icon) appears at the bottom of your navigation

Click the plus and type the name of your new page into the field. The page should appear in a list below the field. Click on it to select it.

If you want it to appear at a different position in the navigation list, open list view and use that to drag the item to the correct position.