Every page has a settings tab which includes fields to help control the page's visibility and access.
In most cases pages can be left with the default settings, though in some instances these are required to be adjusted.
Page Type & Page Location
These are effectively what we pick when creating a new page. Page type should generally be kept as is for most instances, though page location can be changed.
Page location in this instance is just an alternative method to dragging and dropping the page in the site tree. It's useful when you're moving a page and a great deal of nesting is involved - it makes it easier to select for a specific location.
Page Visibility
There are two options to control page visibility: Show in menus, Show in search. Event pages has an additional option called Show in listings. These options can be used to hide the pages from appearing on the website:
- Unticking Show in menus will prevent a page from appearing in navigation
- Unticking Show in search will prevent a page from appearing in the site search
- Unticking Show in listings will prevent event pages from appearing in season lists and performances of the event will be hidden on the calendar
- All these options will be ticked by default to avoid accidentally hiding the pages.
Who can view this page?
This setting controls the visibility of the page.
Who can edit this page?
The name says it all.
The admin area allows many content authors, but you may choose to give only a handful of those authors the control to edit a particular page. This is where this setting comes useful.
You can choose to inherit the setting from the parent page, allow all logged-in users to access to edit, or select a list of user groups to give editing access to.