Pages and addresses

Start herePagesPages and addressesThe Pages list is where every page on your site lives. This page covers adding pages, arranging them, how each page gets its web address, and getting a deleted page back.The Pages listOpen Pages in the sidebar. Every page is one row, showing its title, its address, and a label saying published or draft. Click a row, or its Edit link, to open the page in the editor.Pages that sit inside another page are tucked under it. Click the arrow beside a page to show them, or use Expand all and Collapse all at the top. The number on a row says how many pages are inside it. The list remembers what you had open.

Scheduled means a draft is set to publish itself later. Hover over it to see when.

hidden means the page is left out of the site menu.

Group marks a menu group: a heading in the menu with no page of its own (see below).

The Pages list.Adding a page

Press New page at the top of the Pages list.

Type a Title.

Choose a Location: — Top level —, or the page it should sit inside.

Check the address shown under URL.

Press Create page. The new page opens in the editor as a draft.

Tick Menu group instead to make a group: a heading in the site menu that opens into a dropdown of the pages under it, with no page of its own. Press Create group, then drag pages under it. To rename a group later, click it in the list and use the Edit group window.You can also start a page from anywhere: click your site's name at the top of the sidebar and choose New page.Arranging and nesting pagesDrag a page by the handle at the left of its row. Drag it up or down to change the order. Drag it to the right to put it inside the page above, and to the left to bring it back out. A line shows where it will land, and its indent shows how deep.Putting a page inside another one changes its address (see the next section). So when a drag would move a page to a new parent, Cairn first asks Move "…"? and says how many addresses will change. Press Move page to go ahead or Cancel to put everything back. Simply reordering pages side by side never asks.If you tick Don't ask again on this computer, you can turn the question back on from your Profile, under Warnings.Until your site's menu is arranged on its own Menu screen, the menu follows this list exactly. Once it has been, this list only arranges addresses. The note at the top of the Pages list says which way your site works. See The site menu.How a page's address is madeNormally you never type an address. Cairn builds it from the page's title and where it sits: a page called "Opening times" inside "Visit us" lives at /visit-us/opening-times. Rename the page or move it, and the address follows. Pages inside it follow too. A page inside a menu group gets the group's name in its address the same way.To fix an address by hand, open the page, go to the Settings tab and untick Auto-generate from the title & nesting. The URL box then becomes editable, and the address stays put whatever you rename or move. Pages inside a fixed-address page keep their addresses too.Two pages can't share an address. If yours is taken, Cairn adds a number on the end and tells you. A few addresses are reserved for Cairn itself, and it will say so if you pick one.On a page that's already published, a change to its title, address or parent waits until you press Publish changes. The Settings tab tells you so, and visitors keep the old version until then. Moving a page in the Pages list is different: that takes effect straight away.Renaming without breaking linksWhen a published page's address changes, people may still have the old one bookmarked, and search engines will have it too. If your site has Redirects switched on, Cairn quietly sends anyone using the old address to the new one, and you don't need to do anything. See Redirects and the 404 log.Without Redirects, the old address of a published page simply stops working when you rename or move it. The move question in the Pages list warns you when that will happen.Showing a page in the menuOpen the page and go to the Settings tab. Under Hierarchy & menu:

Show in menu: ticked for every new page. Untick it to keep the page out of the menu while it stays on the site.

Menu label: a shorter name for the menu. Leave it blank to use the page title.

Parent page: which page this one sits inside, the same as dragging it in the Pages list.

Only published pages appear in the menu. A page set to show in the menu joins it the moment it's published.Duplicating, deleting and restoringTo copy a page, click the copy button on its row in the Pages list. Give the copy a Title and check its URL, then press Duplicate. The copy takes the content, layout and search settings, starts as a draft, is left out of the menu, and opens in the editor.To delete a page, click the bin button on its row, or Move to Trash at the bottom of the page's Settings tab, and confirm. To delete several at once, tick their boxes and press Move to Trash in the bar at the bottom of the screen. Pages inside a deleted page move up a level rather than going with it. The home page can't be deleted.

To get a page back, click Trash at the top of the Pages list. It only shows when something is in the Trash.

Press Restore on the page's row, or tick several and press Restore in the bar at the bottom.

The page returns to where it was. If it was published, it is live again straight away.

Delete forever in the Trash removes the page and its whole version history for good. It can't be undone. While a published page is in the Trash, its address shows visitors a "not found" page.← Your first pageThe page editor →Getting startedPagesBuilding with blocksNavigation and lookMediaForms and leadsCatalogueShopBookings and membersRunning the siteCairnWebsites for businesses that need more than a brochure. Built, hosted and kept running by us.StartBuildRun© 2026 Cairn. All rights reserved.Built with Cairn.