The Pages area is where you create, organize, and manage all the content pages on your school website. This overview walks through what Pages does, how page layouts and content blocks work, and points you to deeper step-by-step guides for each task.
What "Pages" covers
In the Edlio CMS, Pages is the section where you manage everything that lives in your site's content tree — Categories, Sections, and the individual Pages within them. Think of it as the file cabinet for your site:
Categories are top-level groupings (Academic Departments, Educational Support Departments, Athletics, Clubs and Activities, Miscellaneous, etc.)
Sections live inside Categories (e.g., Math, Music, Special Education within Academic Departments)
Pages live inside Sections — these are the actual web pages your visitors read
Getting to Pages
Two paths from the admin dashboard:
From the dashboard — click the Pages tile.
From the hamburger menu — open the menu (three horizontal lines, top-left), select Page Management, then click Pages.
Page Management's submenu also contains Links, Redirects, Password-Protected Areas, and Homepage Widgets.
For a deeper walkthrough of nav, including permissions and who can see what, see Navigate to Pages.
Working at each level
Category and Section list views
Each level of Page Management shows a list view with:
Section/page name + edit icon to rename the level
A + New Section or + New Page button (top-right, primary blue)
A 🔍 Search Pages button
Per-row kebab menus (⋯) for actions like Move, Edit, and Delete on individual sections and pages
Creating a new page
In a section's page list, click + New Page. The New Page modal offers:
Blank Page — a clean canvas for custom content blocks
Link to another page — a navigation entry pointing to an internal or external URL
5 feature pages — Form, Videos, Photo Album, Calendar, and Links
Detailed walk-through: Adding New Pages to Your School Website.
Editing a page and adding content blocks
Inside the page editor:
Page title — at the top of the canvas
Layout dropdown — top-right control to choose from 5 layout templates (Single column, 50/50, 25/75, 75/25, and 33/33/33). All multi-column layouts feature a Top Column Zone spanning full-width directly beneath the title and above split columns — see Page layout.
Adding blocks in zones — click + Add in any layout zone to open the Add Page Block modal with ten block types (Content, Photos, Files, Supply Lists, Buttons, Links, News, Events, Staff, and Staff Block). For staff blocks, you can choose manual curation or set automated filter rules by User Type and Position — see Add content to Pages.
Inline + Add button — hover your cursor on the divider between any two existing blocks to reveal a floating + Add button. Clicking it lets you insert a new block directly in place without dragging from the bottom of the page.
Drag handles — use the 6-dot handle (⋮⋮) on any block to drag and reorder blocks across zones anytime.
Save controls live in the footer:
Save Draft (filled blue, primary) — saves changes in progress without publishing publicly
Publish (outlined blue, secondary) — pushes changes live to the public website
You can save a draft as many times as you need before clicking Publish.
Page-level and section-level actions
The Actions ▾ dropdown at the top-right of a page, or the kebab menu (⋯) on any list row, gives you:
Public View — open the live page in a new tab
View in Site Navigation — see where this page sits in your main navigation menu
Publish / Unpublish — toggle live visibility. Note: Unpublishing hides content from the public site while preserving all content and structure in the CMS. If you need to permanently remove an unused category or section, use Delete.
Move — relocate the page to a different section or category
Delete — permanently remove the page, section, or category from your site tree
Built-in Accessibility Report
When you create or update a page, the CMS runs an accessibility report in the background. The page editor footer surfaces real-time status and highlights common accessibility issues (like missing image alt text or improper heading nesting) with automated one-click fixes. See the Accessibility collection for complete guidance on checks and remediation tools.
Personal Pages vs. Category Pages
Beyond Category Pages (which admins manage across the school-wide tree), teachers and staff can have Personal Pages for classroom info, schedules, and class updates. Those use a distinct workflow managed under Site Management > Users or staff profile permissions, and are covered in the Personal Pages subcollection. This article focuses on Category Pages — the school-wide content tree.
Common tasks
What you want to do | Article |
Find Pages in the CMS | |
Create a new page | |
Add content blocks | |
Choose a layout & top column zone | |
Use the hero zone | |
Configure site-wide page defaults |
Best practices
Reorder pages and blocks easily — Use the 6-dot drag handle (⋮⋮) on the left-hand side of page rows or content blocks to reorder anytime. Hover between blocks to click + Add and insert new content directly where you need it.
Use descriptive page names — page titles appear in section menus, breadcrumbs, friendly URL slugs, and site search results.
Save Draft frequently — drafts let you refine content without changing the public site. Click Actions > Preview in the upper-right corner to see how your draft renders across desktop, tablet, and mobile views.
Understand parent publishing inheritance — if a published page returns a 404, verify that its parent section and category are also set to Published. When a parent section is unpublished, all pages inside it inherit that hidden status.
Mind accessibility — add descriptive alt text on images, maintain logical heading levels (H1 > H2 > H3), and use the built-in accessibility report in the editor footer before publishing.