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Managing Pages

The Website Pages view is your central hub for creating, editing, and organizing all the pages on your church website. You can manage both your page content and your site's navigation from this single screen.

Before You Begin

  • Complete the Initial Setup to configure your domain and basic site settings
  • Have your content and images ready. Use the Files manager to upload media assets first.
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If your church has more than one website (for example, separate sites per campus), use the site switcher at the top of the Website Pages view to jump between them. Each site has its own pages, navigation, and appearance settings.

Understanding Page Types​

The Pages table lists every page on your site by Path and Title. There are two kinds of pages:

  • Generated -- Pages that were automatically created by the system based on your church's data (for example, a Groups page, a Sermons page, or an individual page for each sermon in your library). These pages show a Generated badge and update themselves as your data changes.
  • Custom -- Pages that you created yourself with your own content and layout.

You can convert any auto-generated page into a custom page if you want full control over its content and design. Click Convert next to the generated page and confirm.

Adding and Editing Pages​

  1. Click the Add Page button at the top right of the Website Pages view.
  2. Choose a page type (blank or a template) and give it a name.
  3. Click Edit Content next to any page to open the page editor, where you can add sections, text, images, and other elements.
  4. Click Page Settings next to a page to update the page title, URL path, and other metadata.
  5. Click a page's path in the Path column to open the live page in a new tab and see exactly how it will look to visitors.
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For your home page, set the URL path to just /. For all other pages, use a descriptive path like /about or /contact.

Page Settings​

Open Page Settings on any page to configure:

  • Title and URL Path -- The page name and its address on your site.
  • Visibility -- Choose who can see the page: everyone, members only, staff only, or members of specific groups. This is a quick way to gate a private page (like a staff resource page) without a separate password.
  • Meta Description -- A short summary shown in search engine results and social media link previews.
  • Redirects -- Point an old URL path to this page, so links and bookmarks to a retired page keep working.

Managing Navigation​

The Main Navigation panel on the right side of the Website Pages view displays your navigation links. These links control the menu that visitors see on your website.

  1. Click Add to create a new navigation link. You can point it to any page on your site or to an external URL.
  2. To reorder links, drag and drop them into the order you want. You can also nest links under a parent item to create dropdown menus.
  3. Click any link to open its Link Settings, where you can change its text, URL, or parent page.
  4. To remove a link from the navigation, open its Link Settings and click Delete.
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Removing a navigation link does not delete the page itself. The page still exists and can be accessed directly by its URL -- it simply will not appear in the menu.

Site-Wide Switches​

Below the links in the Main Navigation panel are two switches that apply to your whole church website:

  • Show Login -- Shows a Login button in your website's navigation bar.
  • Disable Public Website -- Turns off your public website. Use it if your church uses B1 only for its member portal, giving, and registrations, and keeps its main website somewhere else.

What Disabling the Public Website Does​

When Disable Public Website is on:

  • Every public page, including the home page and your custom pages, sends visitors who aren't signed in to the login screen. After they sign in, they go back to the page they asked for.
  • Signed-in members see the full website as usual, including your navigation and the built-in Generated pages (such as Groups and Sermons). Generated pages no longer appear in the Pages table.
  • Search engines are told not to index the site. The sitemap is empty and robots.txt blocks all crawling.

These links keep working, so members and guests can still reach them:

  • Login and logout
  • The member portal (everything under /mobile)
  • Event registration links and guest registration

A warning appears under the switch while the public website is off. Turn the switch off again to bring your pages back. Nothing is deleted while the site is disabled.

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This setting applies to your whole church. If you have more than one site, it turns off all of them, not only the one selected in the site switcher.

Tips for Organizing Your Site​

  • Keep your top-level navigation to five or six items so visitors can find things quickly.
  • Use nested links for related sub-pages (for example, an "About" dropdown with "Our Team," "Beliefs," and "History").
  • Review your navigation on a phone to make sure it works well on smaller screens.
  • Give pages clear, descriptive names that help visitors understand what they will find.
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You can add forms to your pages to collect registrations, prayer requests, or other information from visitors.

Starting from a Site Template​

If you are building your site from scratch, you can bootstrap it using a Site Template instead of creating pages one at a time. A site template creates a set of pre-built pages — home, about, connect, give, and others — with placeholder content and navigation links already wired up.

  1. On the Pages screen, click the Start From a Template button (beside the Add Page button).
  2. Browse the available templates and click one to preview its page structure.
  3. When you find one you like, click Apply Template.
  4. Pages that do not already exist are created and added to your navigation. Existing pages are left as-is.

After applying a template, open each page in the page editor to replace the placeholder text and images with your church's real content.

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Site templates create page structure and navigation. They do not override your site's color scheme or fonts — those are controlled by Appearance.

Image Lightbox​

When visitors click on an image on your website, it opens in a full-screen lightbox overlay. This lets people view photos at a larger size without leaving the page. No configuration is required — the lightbox is enabled automatically for images in your page content.

Next Steps​