Section 5: Creating new pages, new sections and adding a default page view to a folder

***Note: In order to create any new pages or sections, you must be logged in!
See Section 3.

Section 5.1: Creating New Pages

While in the Content View of any folder:

Step 1: Login to the site and navigate to where you wish to place your new page.

Step 2: Select the “contents” Tab at the top once you have reached the area where you would like to place your new page, and click on the “add new...” button.

Step 3: select “page” (at the bottom of the drop down option menu).

Step 4: Give the Page a title and begin to populate it with content below the WYSIWYG editing tool bar.

Step 5: Scroll down to the bottom of the page and select the option “save”

Figure 5.1 – Creating a new page

Quick Tips when adding or creating new pages:

Step 1: Give the new page a title

Step 2: (Optional) Give the page a description

Step 3: Add Content

Step 4: Save

Step 5: Select State and change from “Private” to “Published” when ready to release the page to the public!

Figure 5.2 – Giving the new page a Title, Description, and Content

Section 5.2: Setting a page as a default view for a folder

When a new sub-section in your left navigation has been created, it must have a new page set as a default page to load for the public view. Creating a new area in your site that will contain several other pages within it, requires the creation of a folder, like the undergraduate section of a particular program.

The name for the individual page joined in connection with this folder or sub-section is called a “default view” page. It's like having a home page for a particular section of your website like the aforementioned “undergraduate program” area. This way, when the user clicks a certain area, they are brought to a single page, and do not actually see the contents view of a folder.

To set a single page as the default view for a folder:

Step 1: Navigate to a Folder, or create a new one to create a new sub-section to your left navigation

Step 2: Select the “contents” tab while on the new folder

Step 3: Select the “display” option in the menu, and then click on “select content item as default view” (Figure 5.3).
Step 4: Now Choose a page as the default view. Save.

Now when the folder is viewed in “contents” one of the pages will shown in bold font. This is the default page.

Figure 5.3 – Selecting a page as the default view in the folder “New Section”

Section 5.3: Creating New Sections

***Note: In order to create a new section, you must be familiar with the Folder Structure used to build in Plone. If you are not, make sure to refer to Section 4: Folder structures / site organization.

Step 1: Create a new folder, the name of this will be the name of the new sub-section link in your left navigation.

Step 2: Create new pages within the “contents” Tab in this new folder to populate the section (folder) with the sub-pages you wish to appear below your new section.

Step 3: Assign one of the pages created in Step 2 as the default view page. See Section 5.2.