Pages: your own standing content

You’ll need: Pages — if you cannot see these, the module may be switched off for your business or outside your permissions. An administrator can change either.

Some content is not news and not a product. It is the material that simply needs to exist: how to reach you, your terms, your history, your policies. That is what pages are for.

What a page carries

A page has a title and a slug — the short word that appears in its web address, so a page titled “Terms of Service” might live at /terms. Keep slugs short, lowercase and hyphenated, and do not change one once it is published: anything already linking to it will break.

Beyond that a page has a summary for listings and previews, a cover photo, the body itself, and documents you can attach for download.

Two fields do more than they look. Collection groups related pages together, so a set of policies can present as a set rather than as unrelated items. Rank decides the order they appear in — lower first — which matters because alphabetical order is almost never the order you want.

And show in footer puts a link to the page in the site footer. That is where visitors look for exactly this kind of content, so it is usually the right home for your terms and privacy pages.

Pages versus news

The distinction is worth getting right, because it decides where a visitor will look for something.

  A PAGE                        AN UPDATE (news)
  ---------------------------   ---------------------------
  true until you change it      true on the day it was written
  found via footer or menu      found on the news list, newest first
  "Refund policy"               "Depot closed for Eid"
  edited in place               a new post each time

The test is whether it dates. A refund policy is a page. Its announcement that the policy changed is an update.

Do not use a page as a noticeboard

The common mistake is one page called “News” that somebody edits every week, appending to the top. It loses you the dated list, the previews and the ability to point at a single announcement — all of which the updates module gives you for free. Use both, for the things each is for.

Try it

On staging.feeprime.com, create a page, give it a slug, tick show in footer, and go and find it on the public site the way a visitor would — from the footer, not from a link you kept. Then change the slug and watch your saved link break. That is why slugs are decided once.