Pages

Pages is where you build and manage every page on your organisation's public website. You'll find it in the admin sidebar under Pages. It lists every route on your site, lets you create custom pages, and gives you a visual editor for arranging content into sections.

Who can use this

Both admins and moderators can open Pages, create pages, and edit sections. A few things are admin-only:

• The Page theme override card on a page (using a different theme for one page).
• A handful of advanced blocks inside the Rich text editor — embeds (YouTube, Vimeo, maps), registration/interest forms, schedules, news lists, child-page lists and custom HTML. (These are different from the sections of the same name in the Add section menu — the News list and Form sections themselves are open to moderators.) If a moderator tries to save a page with a restricted block, they'll see "Block type restricted to Admins".

Saving is also locked for everyone if your billing isn't up to date — you'll see a warning banner and the editor's save buttons are disabled.

What's on the page

The main list has two tabs:

• Routes — every page on your site. Your homepage (/) always sits first, followed by your own pages and forms, with the Enforced rows (built-in platform routes, marked with an "Enforced" badge) grouped underneath — you can't delete those, but you can often edit or configure them. Use the search box, or the Protected routes pill to hide the enforced rows and focus on your custom pages. A page that nothing links to — no menu item and no link from another page's content — shows an amber Not linked badge; use the sort control's Not linked first option to bring those pages to the top.
• JSON (advanced) — bulk-edit the title and status of your custom pages as text.

Below the list, the Section access card lets you restrict whole built-in sections (like Competitions or Nominations) to members or specific roles. Restricting Competitions also covers its match centre and player statistics pages — they carry the same competition data, so they follow the same setting.

The enforced rows cover every built-in destination — including newer areas like Join, Donate, Raffles, Volunteer, Documents, Club chat, Committee, Book a court, Programs and Legal — plus link-only routes (QR check-in, kiosks, membership-card verification, match centres, player stats, and the "About this website" colophon page) that occupy the path but aren't offered in the navigation link picker.

Step by step

Create a new page

The Add a page form asks four short questions, and only the first two need an answer.

1. Click New page (top right of the Pages screen).
2. What's the page called? — type a Page name (up to 200 characters). The Web address underneath fills itself in as you type, and a line below it tells you straight away whether that address is free: a green tick means it's yours, and a red cross explains what's wrong (already used by another page, held by a page you deleted, or taken by one of the built-in sections like /news). You can edit the address yourself at any point — once you do, it stops following the name.
3. Where does it sit? — leave it On its own for a top-level address like /coaches, or choose Inside another page and pick a parent to get a nested address like /about/coaches. The web address field above updates to show the parent's path, and the availability check re-runs for the new position.
4. Who can see it? — Anyone, Members only, or Certain people only. The last one asks which level of access is needed (members and above, moderators and admins, or admins only). Private pages are automatically kept out of search engines.
5. Anything else? (optional) — two collapsed panels with sensible defaults already applied. How the page looks covers hiding the page name, hiding the trail of links above it, and how wide the content runs. How it appears in Google (admins only) sets the search title, the summary underneath, and whether search engines list the page at all. Everything here can also be changed later from the page itself.
6. Click Create page & start editing. The page is created as a draft and the editor opens straight away, so you can add content without another click. Nobody sees it until you publish.

Build your page on the canvas

The page editor opens in Canvas mode: your page is shown just as it will publish (with your real site header and footer), and you edit it directly in place.

1. From the Routes tab, click the Edit (pencil) action on a page.
2. Click any section to open its settings drawer on the right — changes appear on the canvas as you type. Rich text, image, list and form sections all edit through the same drawer.
3. Click the page title at the top of the canvas to rename the page in place — press Enter (or click away) to save the new name, or Escape to cancel. Hover the title and click the bin icon to delete it from the page (this turns on "Hide the page title" and applies straight away). A slim bar appears in its place with a Show title button to bring it back — or add a Heading section instead, which you can move and align like any other section.
4. Breadcrumbs sit above the title as a fixed block — every page shows them by default (except the homepage, which has no trail). They always stay at the very top: they can't be dragged or reordered. Hover the trail and click the bin icon to remove it (this turns on "Hide breadcrumbs" and applies straight away); a slim bar with a Show breadcrumbs button appears in its place to bring it back.
5. Hover a section for its toolbar: use the grip to drag it to a new spot, Edit to open the drawer, Duplicate to copy it, or Delete to remove it.
6. Hover between sections and click the + button to add a new section exactly there. The picker lists every section type — Rich text, Heading, Banner image, Inline image, Image gallery, News list, Sponsor list, Form, Members list, Events list, or Locations — and has a search box at the top: start typing (e.g. "gallery") and press Enter to add the first match. A new Heading section starts with your page's title as its text, and its drawer lets you set the text, the size (Large/Medium/Small) and the alignment (left, centre or right).
7. Use Preview (in the floating save pill, top right under the navbar) to check the page, then Save to record a version or Publish (shown as Update live on a published page) to make it live. A page can hold up to a set number of sections.

Prefer the old card-based editor? Switch the toggle above the canvas to List — both modes edit the same page and you can swap at any time.

Autosave — the timer in the top right

While you edit, a small floating pill in the top right (just under the navbar) keeps a backup draft of your work:

• After your first change, a countdown timer starts (2 minutes). When it reaches zero, the draft saves automatically. Click Save draft now to save the backup immediately.
• The backup is only a recovery copy — it never changes what visitors see. Publishing still happens with Save / Publish.
• If you leave without saving, the next time you open the page you'll see a blue banner offering to Restore draft (bring back your unsaved work) or Discard it.
• If another admin saves the page while you're editing, autosave pauses and the pill shows Edited elsewhere — reload to pick up their version, or use Save to overwrite it with yours.

Set the homepage

Your organisation is created with a complete, already-published website from the starting design you chose when you signed up, so normally there is nothing to do here at all. If your homepage ever ends up unpublished, everyone who visits your site's front page sees a placeholder instead of your club — and a rose-coloured notice appears in three places to tell you: the top of the Pages screen, your admin dashboard, and the placeholder page itself when you visit your own site.

• "Your homepage hasn't been created yet" — click Create homepage (on the notice, or the + action on the / row). This creates a published homepage with a short welcome on it, so visitors always see something real, and opens it in the editor.
• "Your homepage is still a draft" — click Publish homepage. On your own site's placeholder page this publishes it there and then; from the dashboard or Pages screen it opens the page so you can look it over first.

The notice gets more insistent the longer it goes unfixed, and after a couple of days it also offers Let Helix write it for me — the Helix Assistant drafts the whole page from a sentence about your club.

The notice disappears as soon as your homepage is published.

Add a sidebar widget (side sections)

1. Choose a Sidebar position (None, Right, Left, or Both) from the control above the canvas.
2. The sidebar column appears on the canvas. Each side holds one widget — add one with Add widget (Events list, Locations, Sponsor strip, or Recent news), or drag a compatible section from the main column into the slot.
3. Click the widget to configure it in the drawer, like any other section.
4. Note: a full-width banner image automatically hides the sidebar on the live page — the canvas dims the sidebar and shows a warning when that's the case. (In List mode, sidebar widgets are managed from the Side sections card instead.)

Choose which roles a Members list shows

Add a Members list section and open its drawer. Roles to include shows your positions as a tree — the same structure as Admin → Roles & positions, with club-wide positions and team positions listed separately, and each subrole (President, Treasurer, Coach…) nested under its parent.

• Tick a parent — say Committee — and every subrole beneath it comes along. Those subroles show as ticked and greyed out with "Included via Committee".
• Tick a subrole on its own to show just those holders, e.g. only the Treasurer.
• Leave everything unticked to show holders of every position.

Each person appears once, badged with a single subrole. To control which one that is, tick Priority display in members list on the position from Admin → Roles & positions.

Adjust display, SEO and theme

In the editor, the Display options card controls title visibility, breadcrumbs, content width and spacing. SEO & sharing sets the search title, description, social share image and whether to hide the page from search engines. Click the Save page settings button below the settings cards to apply — these save separately from the page content.

Edit a built-in list's intro

On the /events, /news or /locations rows, use Edit intro text to add content above the listing, and the inline picker to choose the list's layout style.

Field reference

Tips & FAQ

• Draft vs published: new pages start as drafts and stay hidden until you Save & publish. A green star in the list marks published pages.
• "Not linked" badge: this warns that visitors can only reach the page by typing its address. Fix it by adding the page to your menus in Navigation, or by linking to it from another page's content (a text link or button). The badge updates automatically when you save the navigation or the linking page. The homepage never shows it, and links to your own page from itself don't count.
• Full-bleed hero banners: hide the page title and breadcrumbs (Display options, or delete them on the canvas) and start the page with a Banner image section — the banner then sits flush against the navigation bar with no gap, perfect for landing-page heroes. Showing the title or breadcrumbs again restores the normal top padding.
• Autosave isn't publishing: the countdown in the floating pill only protects your work-in-progress. Nothing changes on your live site until you click Save or Publish.
• Renaming a path: you can change a page's title and status from the JSON (advanced) tab, but adding, removing or renaming the web address must be done through the Routes tab to keep links working.
• Web address fields everywhere: the same field appears anywhere the platform needs an address — news posts, events, galleries, forms, shop products, teams, clubs, competitions and your organisation's own address under Settings. It always behaves the same way: it fills in from the name above it, cleans up what you type, and tells you in plain words if something's wrong. Where changing an address would break links people already have, it says so before you save.
• Section won't appear? Check the page is published and its visibility suits who you want to reach.
• Related: set your colours and fonts under Theme and Branding, build your menus in Navigation, turn modules on or off under Features, and manage form submissions in Forms. Sidebar widgets pull from News, Events, Locations and Sponsors.