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A page template is a ready-made page: the right sections, in a sensible order, with sample text. Pick one, and you start with a finished layout instead of an empty page. Who can do this: Contributors, Editors, Admins and Owners. Publishing needs an Editor, an Admin or an Owner.

Before you start

  • Sign in, and open the page your new page should sit under. A new page becomes its subpage.
  • For the legal templates, ask an Admin or Owner to fill in Site settings → Brand and Site settings → Legal first. The template can then copy your business details in for you.

Create a page from a template

1

Start a new page

Open the command palette (⌘K, or Ctrl+K on Windows) and choose Pages. In Manage Pages, choose New Page.
2

Choose a template

The Create a Page gallery opens. Each card shows a sketch of the page, what it’s for, and its sections in order. Choose a card.
The Create a Page gallery: Blank page first, then the About, Services, Landing, Pricing, Home and Contact cards with their sketches, categories, descriptions and section lists.The Create a Page gallery: Blank page first, then the About, Services, Landing, Pricing, Home and Contact cards with their sketches, categories, descriptions and section lists.

Choose a starting point: a template or a blank page.

3

Fill in your details (legal templates only)

On Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions, keep Fill in business details from Global ticked. Here, Global means the business details your site keeps in Site settings. Your business name, address and other details go straight into the text.
The gallery footer with the Privacy Policy card selected, the Fill in business details from Global box ticked and ringed, and the Use template button.The gallery footer with the Privacy Policy card selected, the Fill in business details from Global box ticked and ringed, and the Use template button.

On a legal template, the CMS can fill in your business details for you.

4

Use it

Choose Use template. Or double-click the card.
5

Name the page

The page window opens with the template’s sections in place. Its title starts as “Copy of” and the template’s name. Change Title to your page’s name, and check the web address in Slug.
6

Save it as a draft

Open More save options (the arrow beside the main Publish or Submit button) and choose Save Draft. Visitors can’t see it yet.
7

Make it yours

Replace the sample text and pictures with your own, right on the page. See Add, move and remove sections. On a legal page, check that no [square-bracket] placeholders are left.
8

Publish it

Read the page through, then choose Publish in the edit bar. Contributors choose Submit instead, to send it to an Editor for review.
A new Services page made from the Services template, as visitors see it: Page Header, Intro / Trust, Feature Cards, How it works / Steps, Pricing / Packages and Final CTA.A new Services page made from the Services template, as visitors see it: Page Header, Intro / Trust, Feature Cards, How it works / Steps, Pricing / Packages and Final CTA.

A page made from the Services template, ready for your own words.

The templates

Blank page starts with a Page Header only. Choose it, then Start blank. The Home template makes a new, separate page laid out like a front page, such as a landing page for a second location. It doesn’t replace your home page. To change your real home page, open it and edit its sections. See Add, move and remove sections.

Fill in business details

The legal templates mark your business details as placeholders in square brackets, such as [Business name]. Fill in business details swaps each one for the value in your Site settings. It’s a one-time change. If you edit Site settings later, the page keeps the old text, so a published policy never changes on its own.

Run it again later

Filled in a setting after you made the page? Run it on the page itself. It fills only the [square-bracket] placeholders still on the page. Text it filled before is now ordinary text, so it stays as it is: to change it, edit that text by hand on the page.
On a published page, the fill can go live at once. The filled text goes straight to your site when three things are true: the page is published, it has no other unpublished changes, and you’re allowed to publish. Otherwise it waits in the page’s draft until you publish.
1

Open the page and choose Edit in the edit bar

2

Choose More Options (⋯), then Fill in business details

3

Check the lists, then choose the fill button

It names how many placeholders it fills, such as Fill 12 placeholders.
The Fill in business details window on Parker's Privacy Policy page: Will be filled (nine placeholders such as Business name → Parker's Puppy Playland, with how often each appears), Not set in Site settings yet (Website address), Write these yourself (Sign-in provider, Promotional message frequency) and the Fill 15 placeholders button ringed.The Fill in business details window on Parker's Privacy Policy page: Will be filled (nine placeholders such as Business name → Parker's Puppy Playland, with how often each appears), Not set in Site settings yet (Website address), Write these yourself (Sign-in provider, Promotional message frequency) and the Fill 15 placeholders button ringed.

See what will be filled, what's missing, and what to write yourself.

The window shows 3 lists:
  • Will be filled: the placeholders it can fill, with the value and how many times each appears.
  • Not set in Site settings yet: placeholders whose setting is empty. A setting that still holds its sample value counts as empty too, so sample details never land in a policy.
  • Write these yourself: placeholders no setting can answer, such as [Refund processing time]. Replace them by hand in the text.

What happens next

The new page is a separate page. Change it as much as you like: the template stays as it was. A page you saved as a draft stays hidden until someone publishes it. The fill changes the page’s draft, except on a published page with no other unpublished changes, where it can go live at once (see the warning above). Otherwise, publish the page when you’re ready. See Drafts, publishing and scheduling.

Good to know

  • Your About, Pricing, Contact and legal pages already use these layouts. The ready-made About Us, Pricing, Contact Us, Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions pages start from the matching template. Archived one by mistake? The template makes the same layout again.
  • The templates live in your page tree under Templates. Visitors never see them. Change one there, and new pages made from it start with your changes.
  • Legal text is a starting point. Read your policy through and have it checked before you rely on it.

Troubleshooting

Your page is saved, but the fill didn’t run. Open the page, choose More Options (⋯), then Fill in business details to try again.
After the fill, a notice says how many placeholders still need your attention. Some settings may be empty: ask an Admin or Owner to fill them in Site settings, then run the fill again. The rest are for you to write by hand.
Every placeholder on the page is already filled or replaced. Nothing more to do.
Creating pages needs a Contributor, Editor, Admin or Owner role. Ask an Admin to give you one.

Pages and the page tree

create, move and remove pages.

Add, move and remove sections

make the page yours.

Legal details

the settings your legal pages use.

Brand

your business name and contact details.