Pages section:


The pages section (pages management) let you to insert, edit and delete pages for your website (you can insert three different type of pages: personalized, expansion and some predefined pages).

To enter in the pages section click the "Page management" icon from control panel and a list of pages will be shown (see picture 1).


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From pages list you can click on the icons in the right to enable/disable, edit, duplicate or delete an existing page (if you duplicate an existing page, it will be created initially disabled). To add a new page you must click on "Add page", the "Insert new HTML page" form will appear (see picture 2).


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From "Insert new HTML page" form you can insert a new page by filling the follows fields:

Page title The title will shown when the page its visited
Subtitle The secondary title will shown when the page its visited
Enable If unchecked the page its not visible
Page type

There are three main types of pages: personalized, expansion and predefined pages.

A personalized page have static HTML (or plain text) contents that the administrator can enter directly in the "Page HTML" field (the administrator can also use the editor to enter HTML contents).

An expansion page have dynamic PHP contents. When you select expansion as page type an expansion menu and expansion parameters fields will shown, from expansion menu you can select an existing expansion to link with the page and from expansion parameters fields you can insert parameters for the expansion. To create an expansion see the developer manual.

An predefined page its a page with different contents already integrated into Webmatic.
A predefined page can be:

Chat The chat page (see forum and chat section)
Contact form

A predefined contact page

Directories A directories page (see directories section)
Downloads A download section page
F.A.Q. A page with the faqs
Forum A page with all the forums (see forum and chat section)
Guestbook A page with guestbook
Links A page with links sorted by categories
Little market A little market page
Media album A page with a collection of medias (pictures, videos and music) sorted by categories
Search An internal search engine page
Statistics A page with website statistics
Users information A page with informations about the users
Registration A user registration page
Webmail A webmail page (see Webmail section)

 

Page contents From here you can create a page linkable in the channels section as channel block (Channels page) or a page not linkable in the channels section as channel block (Normal page). See channels section for more details.
Visibility The page can be viewed by all visitors, all users or only the users that have the same group of the page
Group The group of the page
Previous page in pages sequence From here you can select a page used as previous page of current page in a page sequence (if select "No page" no link will be create)
Panels on the left/right enable Eneble/disable the left/right panels when the page its showed
Render mode The page render mode can be: HTML, plain text, plain text with BBcode and HTML with BBcode
Page header Page header, will be rendered before the page content
Page HTML The static HTML (or plain text) page content (only for personalized pages)
Page foot Page foot, will be rendered after the page content

After, click on "Insert" to save the page (fix any errors if needed).

WARNING: A page created in this section will not be viewed in your website until you make a link to it (you must create a main menu bar link, a secondary menu link or a channel block linked to the page) see menus section or channels section.