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.

Reviewing the pages we drafted for you works the same way: publishing a page is how you approve it, so anyone who can open Pages — admins and moderators alike — can work through the review list.

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

Review the pages we drafted for you

When your organisation was created we built you a starting website. Your home page is already live — it uses your organisation's name and the description you wrote when you signed up. The other pages are drafts, waiting for you to read them.

That's on purpose. We know your name and roughly what you do, but we don't know when you train, what membership costs, or where to find you — so rather than invent any of it, those pages carry a heading and a short question underneath asking for the one thing only you can tell us. Nobody can see a draft: not visitors, not search engines, and it won't appear in your menu.

Publishing a page is how you approve it. There's no separate approve button.

1. Open Pages. Anything still waiting is pinned at the top under Needs your review, and you'll see a reminder in the admin sidebar and a banner across the top until the list is empty.
2. Open a page from that group. Replace each question with a sentence or two of your own — or delete the parts that don't apply to your club.
3. Press Publish. The page goes live, joins your menu automatically, and leaves the review list.
4. Repeat until the list is empty. The banner and the reminder disappear on their own.

Your home page is in the list too, even though it's already live — it's worth reading your own front page and deciding it says the right thing. Pressing Update live on it counts as reviewed.

Until you've reviewed it, search engines are asked not to list a page we drafted for you, and it stays out of your sitemap. Visitors can still open it. Once you publish it, or press Update live on your home page, Google can find it as normal. This stops search results filling up with starter pages that look alike from one club to the next.

If you'd rather do this later, click Review later on the Pages screen. That stops us sending you straight to Pages each time you open the admin, but the banner and the reminder stay put so the work doesn't get forgotten. It comes back the next day.

Don't want to write it yourself? Open the Helix Assistant on any of these pages and ask it to write the page for your club. It knows your organisation's description and what your pages are for. Whatever it writes is saved as a draft too, so you still get the last word.

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, Copy to another page to add it to another page's draft, or Delete to remove it.
6. Hover between sections and click the + button to add a new section exactly there. The picker groups every section type under headings (Text & headings, Images & video, Club information, People & roles, Links & contact, Layout) and has a search box at the top: start typing (e.g. "faq") and press Enter to add the first match. See Section types below for the full list. 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. The pill's whole cluster is repeated below the settings cards, so you never have to scroll back up to publish.
8. A page holds up to 40 sections, counting the main column and the sidebars together. The counter at the top of the editor turns amber as you get close and red when you reach the limit, and a message explains what to do: remove a section, or move some content to a new page and link to it.

Give a section a style

Every section in the main column has a Section style, under Layout & style in its settings. Pick one to change how that section looks:

• Standard — the normal look. Nothing is added.
• Hero — centred, with extra space and a large heading. Good for the top of a page.
• Narrow — keeps the text to a comfortable reading width in the middle of the page.
• Accent band — a soft tint of your primary colour behind the section, edge to edge.
• Two columns — the first item (usually a heading or image) on the left, the rest on the right. Phones show one column.
• Full-width image — images stretch edge to edge in a wide letterbox shape.

The canvas shows the style straight away. Sidebar sections always keep their compact look.

Section styles are switched on for your whole site the first time an admin picks one. Until then your public site shows every section in its standard look, which is why nothing changed on existing sites when styles arrived. When styles come on, the editor tells you, and any section that already had a style will show it too. To switch them off again, pick a styled section and click Turn off for the whole site under the style menu. Your choices are kept, so switching back on restores them. Moderators can choose a style, but only an organisation admin can switch styles on or off.

If a style would make text hard to read with your theme's colours (for example an accent band behind light text), the menu says so. Change the colour in Theme or pick another style.

Put sections side by side, and set a row's background

Layout & style also sets how a section sits on the page:

• Row layout puts sections side by side. Pick it on the first section of the row: Two equal columns, Wide, then narrow, Narrow, then wide, Three columns or Four columns. The sections after it fill the other columns, in order. An empty column shows on the canvas with an Add a section button, and to move a section to another column, move it up or down. Phones show one column, and four columns go two by two on tablets.
• Space above and Space below set the gap around the row: None, Small, Medium (the usual) or Large. Choose None on two coloured rows to make them touch.
• Background image or gradient puts a photo (from your media library or a web address) or a blend of two theme colours behind the row. Overlay darkens it so the text stays readable. Text on a photo is white, and the panel warns you in words when the text may be hard to read. Choose Medium or Strong for a photo.
• Entrance motion fades, raises or zooms the row in as visitors scroll to it. The first row never moves, and visitors who ask their device for less motion see none.
• Link name (anchor) gives the section a name like training, so a link to #training jumps straight to it. Each link name can be used once on a page. Copy link to this section copies it for you.

The layout, background, spacing and motion of a row all come from its first section. The other sections in the row show which column they sit in.

Put text over a photo

A photo with your club's name written on it makes a good page header. You don't need to build it by hand:

1. Open the Image section that holds your photo.
2. Click Put text over this image.

The image becomes a Call to action section with the photo behind it, a Medium overlay to keep the words readable, and the photo's focal point kept. If a Heading section comes straight after the image, its words move onto the photo and the separate heading goes. Otherwise the header starts with "Welcome to our club". Change the words, add a line of text or a button in the section's settings, and change the photo or overlay under Layout & style. On the published page the header is at least about half a screen tall, with the words in white. It is as wide as the page's content, not the full width of the window as a full-width banner is, and it stays beside a sidebar rather than above it.

The button only shows for an image in the main column that isn't half of a two-column row. It isn't saved until you Save or Publish, so if you change your mind before then, leave the page without saving.

Image heights

An Image section's Height is either a fixed size (Short, Medium or Tall), which crops the photo to fit, or Natural, which shows the whole photo uncropped. A Natural image is never taller than about one screen. A tall photo, such as a portrait taken on a phone, sits in the middle of that space over a soft, blurred copy of itself, so it doesn't push the rest of your page several screens down.

Section types

Membership prices, Programmes, Teams, Shop products, Ground status, Roles and Coaches fill themselves in from the rest of your admin, so they stay up to date without editing the page. So do the live lists: Passes & punch cards, Upcoming classes, Test days, Test levels, Fixtures & results, Competitions, Latest galleries, Newsletters, Match reports, Book a facility, Forms, Donate, Raffles and Member clubs. Each one links through to its own public page (a pass to its programme, a fixture to its competition, Book a facility to your booking page), and every date shows in your organisation's timezone. They show nothing until there is something to show, and every one of them works in the main column or a sidebar. Video can only be added by admins, like the embed blocks inside Text.

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 sidebar 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 up to 8 sections. Add one with Add to sidebar, or drag a section from the main column into the sidebar. Drag sections within a sidebar to reorder them.
3. Every section type fits a sidebar except Heading and Spacer. In a sidebar each one uses a compact layout: grids become a single column, images fit the column, and training times become a list grouped by day.
4. Click a sidebar section to configure it in the drawer, like any other section. In List mode, use the Side sections card, where each side has its own list with move up, move down and remove buttons. Open a section there to set who sees it and to lock it, as in the drawer.
5. A banner image at the top of the page stays full width, and the sidebar starts below it. On a page with a sidebar, the breadcrumbs and page title sit below that banner, beside the sidebar. A banner further down the page shows at the width of the main column while the sidebar is visible. Only the Full width content setting hides the sidebar.

Good sidebar sections: upcoming events, contact details, quick links, training times, ground status, a join button, sponsors and social links. Keep the main column for the page's own story.

Use an image from your media library

Every image field in a section's settings has a Choose from library… button beside Upload…. It opens your media library, so you can reuse an image you've already uploaded instead of uploading it again.

1. Click Choose from library… beside the image field.
2. Search by description, file name or page, or scroll the list. Tick Also show images uploaded inside one page or post to see those too.
3. Click an image to use it. If the image's description field is empty, the library's description fills it in. A description you've already written is kept.

Press Esc or the ✕ to close the library without choosing. The Insert image dialog in a Text section has the same button.

Show only some news or events

A News or Events section can show just the items in one category, or with certain tags.

1. Open the section's settings.
2. Pick a Category, or leave it on Any category.
3. Tick up to 10 Tags. The section shows items carrying any of the ticked tags. Leave them all unticked for any tag.
4. Save the page.

The lists come from the categories and tags you give your news posts and events. If one you picked is later deleted, it's shown as "no longer exists" so you can untick it.

Show your coaches

Add a Coaches section. It lists everyone holding the Coach position under Admin → Roles & positions (or the positions you pick), each with their profile photo, their position, the qualifications you've chosen to show, and the published programmes they're rostered to run. Qualifications appear only for accreditation types marked Show on public coach profiles under Accreditations, and only while current and sighted. Programmes appear once a coach's bookable person-resource is linked to their account under Facilities and they're rostered on a session. A coach needs an account to hold a position, so someone on your roster without a login can't appear.

Show your committee and vacant roles

Add a Roles section. It lists your positions from Admin → Roles & positions with the people who hold them. Tick Show vacant roles to list empty roles as "Vacant", and set Vacant roles link to (for example /volunteer) to give people a way to put their hand up. Leave Roles to show empty to include every role, or pick some; a role's sub-roles come with it. If you have hidden your committee from the public under scrape protection, the section shows the roles without names.

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. Beside it sits the same cluster as the floating save pill — Save draft now, Preview, Save and Publish (which reads Update live once the page is published) — so you can finish your settings and put the page live without scrolling back to the top. Those four act on the page content only, and Save page settings saves these settings and nothing else.

Make a landing page, hide the title, or go full width

These are all in Display options:

• Hide the page title takes the title off the screen. Screen readers still announce it, so the page keeps its name for people using one. If the page has a Heading section set to the biggest size, that heading becomes the page title instead.
• Content width: Full width lets your sections run to the edges of the screen. The other widths keep the page in a centred column.
• Landing page removes the site header, menu, footer and shared regions from this page. Visitors see only your sections, with a Back to link to your site at the top. Use it for a sign-up drive or a campaign you advertise. It doesn't hide the page from search engines. A campaign page is usually one you want people to find, so that stays under SEO & sharing.
• The menu a page shows is set in the editor toolbar (Header and Footer variants). See Navigation.

Password-protect a page

1. Open Password protection under Page settings.
2. Type a password of 6 to 200 characters and click Set password.
3. Share the password with the people who need it. Visitors see a password box, and nothing of the page, until they enter it. The page then stays open for them on that device for 12 hours.

A protected page is always hidden from search engines, even after you remove the password, until you turn that off under SEO & sharing. Changing the password signs out everyone who unlocked the page. The card shows how many wrong passwords have been entered. After 10 wrong tries in 15 minutes from one connection, that visitor has to wait. Admins and Moderators always see the page, with a note saying it is protected. The homepage and template pages can't have a password.

Duplicate a page

Open Duplicate page under Page settings and click Duplicate page. You get a draft called "Copy of …" at an address ending in -copy, with the same sections and settings, and it opens in the editor. The password, the publishing schedule and any section locks are not copied. A Moderator's copy leaves out the Admin-only SEO, share image and theme settings.

Duplicate a section, or copy it to another page

Hover a section in the canvas, or press Tab until its toolbar shows.

• Duplicate puts a copy straight below the original, in the same row. If the row is already full, its last column moves down to the next row.
• Copy to another page asks which page and whether it goes at the top or the bottom. The section is added to that page as an unsaved draft, so nothing changes on your website yet. Open the page from the link in the dialog and choose Restore draft to see it, then save or publish as usual.

Either way the copy is a new section. It keeps its content and who can see it, but not its section lock or its anchor, because anchors must be unique on a page. A copy placed on another page starts as a row of its own, unless it goes at the bottom and the page's last row has an empty column, which it then fills. What gets copied is what you see in the editor, including changes you haven't saved yet.

You can't copy into template or region pages, or into a page where someone else has unsaved changes. Ask them to save first, so their work isn't lost. Moderators can't copy blocks only an Admin can add, such as embeds, custom HTML and dynamic lists.

Check a page's health

The Page health panel sits below the canvas. It checks the page as you edit and lists anything that could trip up visitors or search engines. The badge counts the problems in words, such as "3 problems". Nothing in it stops you saving or publishing.

1. Open Page health below the canvas. Problems are grouped into Needs fixing, Worth fixing and Suggestions.
2. Read the problem and the one-line fix under it.
3. Click Go to section to jump to the section it's about, then press Enter to open its settings.
4. Fix it. The list updates a moment after you stop typing.

It looks for images with no description, headings that skip a level or more than one main heading, empty sections, links to pages that don't exist or aren't published, a missing or over-long search title or meta description, two sections with the same anchor, section styles that are hard to read with your theme's colours, a background photo or gradient that makes a section's text hard to read, a public page whose sections are all hidden or members-only, a publish time that has passed, and synced sections whose saved section has been deleted.

Search result preview shows roughly how the page could look in search results: the title, the address and the meta description, cut off where a results page usually cuts them. It follows the Search title and Meta description fields under SEO & sharing as you type.

Schedule a page to go live or come down

The Publishing schedule panel sits under Page settings in the editor.

1. Save the page content you want to go live. At the scheduled time we publish the latest saved version, so keep editing and saving until then.
2. Pick a Publish at date and time. Times are in your organisation's time zone, and the panel names it.
3. Optionally pick a Take down at time too, for a page you only need for a while, like a season launch or a one-off appeal.
4. Click Save schedule. The panel then reads "Scheduled to publish …".

The page goes live within five minutes of the time you picked. On a page that's already live, the panel offers only Take down at. Cancel schedule clears both times. Publishing the page yourself before the time also cancels the schedule, and so does unpublishing a page that was due to come down.

Look back at earlier versions, compare and restore

Every Save and Publish records a version of the page. Admins and moderators can see them all.

1. Open the page in the editor and click Version history beside its address at the top.
2. Each row shows the version number, when it was saved and who saved it, and a summary such as "2 sections changed, 1 added". The version visitors see now is marked Live now (or Current draft on an unpublished page).
3. To compare two versions, tick From on one row and To on another, then click Compare selected versions. You'll see which sections were added, removed, moved or changed, and for a changed section which settings changed and roughly how many words.
4. Click Restore on a version to bring it back, then confirm. The old content is saved as a new version, so nothing in the history is ever overwritten.

What happens next depends on the page. On a published page, the restored version is live straight away. On a draft or unpublished page it stays hidden until you publish it from the editor.

Leave a note on a section

Reviewers can pin a note to one section, for example "Check these prices with the treasurer". Only admins and moderators see notes. They never appear on your public site.

1. In the editor, open Section notes below the canvas. Each section on the page is listed in order.
2. Click Add note beside a section, type the note and click Save note.
3. When it's dealt with, click Resolve. Reopen brings it back. The person who wrote a note, or an admin, can Delete it.

A note on a section you later delete is kept under Notes on sections no longer on the page.

Choose who sees a section, and on which screens

Every section has a Who sees this section setting in its Layout & style panel (sidebar sections have it in their settings drawer, or in the Side sections card in List mode):

• Everyone — the default.
• Members only — only people who hold a role at your organisation (the same people who can see a members-only page). Everyone else gets the page without it, and the section's list or data is never fetched for them.
• Signed-out visitors — disappears once someone signs in. Good for a "Join us" band that members don't need.
• Hidden — stays on the page in the editor but is never shown publicly. Handy for a section you are still working on.

The canvas marks each of these with a badge, so you can see at a glance which sections not everyone gets.

Show on limits a section to phones, tablets or desktops. This is layout only: the section is still in the page and simply isn't displayed on the other screens, so never use it to keep something private.

Members only keeps the section's content from anyone who isn't a member. It isn't hidden on the page; it never reaches their browser at all. The one exception is a synced section: its content is shared by every page that uses it, so it's public whatever you pick here. Keep anything confidential out of synced sections.

Show a section only between two times

In the same panel, Show from and Show until limit a section to a window, such as a sponsor offer or a "Registrations close Friday" notice. Enter the times in your organisation's time zone; you can set one, both or neither, and Clear times removes them.

• Before Show from and after Show until, visitors don't get the section at all. Its words aren't sent to their browser either, so an offer can't be read early.
• Admins and moderators still see it on the live site with a dashed marker saying when visitors will see it, and the canvas shows a badge such as "Scheduled: from 1 Oct 09:00" or "Ended".
• Pages are cached for a few minutes, so a section can appear or disappear up to about 5 minutes after the time you set.
• Page health warns when a section's window has already ended.

Lock a section

Admins can lock a section so it can't be moved, removed or edited. In Layout & style, tick Stop others moving it, Stop others removing it or Stop others editing it, then save.

A lock holds for everyone, including the Helix Assistant and any connected agent: a change that would move, remove or edit a locked section is refused when it's saved. A locked section shows a Locked badge, and its controls are greyed out with the reason.

To change a locked section, an admin opens it and clicks Unlock to change it, makes the change and saves. Restoring an earlier version, or publishing one, also counts as a change, so unlock first if the older version doesn't have the locked section.

Save a section to reuse it

Build a section once and use it on any page:

1. Open the section's Layout & style panel and click Save as pattern.
2. Name it. Leave Synced unticked for a copy you can adapt on each page, or tick it to keep every copy the same.
3. On any page, click Insert saved section at the top of the canvas and pick it. Starting points offers ready-made sections too.

A saved section is copied when you insert it: changing the copy doesn't change the original. A synced section is shared: edit it once under Pages → Saved sections and every page that uses it updates. There you can also choose which of its texts a page may change for itself. Deleting a synced section removes it from every page that uses it.

A synced section is public page content. Never put anything private in one.

Place a section your governing body asks for

A governing body can ask the clubs below it to place a section, such as a child-safe notice or a national sponsor bar. It shows in your picker as Requested by the governing body, and under Pages → Saved sections as needing your attention. You place it yourself; your governing body can't change your pages. It sees only how many clubs have placed it.

If you are the governing body's admin, open Pages → Saved sections, edit a synced section and tick Ask them to place this section. The list then shows how many of the organisations below you have placed it on a live page.

Save a page as a template, and start a page from one

When you've built a page you'll want again, such as a season launch or a come-and-try day, save the whole page as a template:

1. On the Pages list, click Save as template (the copy icon) on the page's row.
2. Give the template a name and, if you like, a short description and search defaults. In the search title, {title} becomes the new page's name.
3. Click Save template. You'll find it under Pages → Page templates.

To use it, click New page. Under Start from, pick the template instead of A blank page, then name the page as usual. You get a new draft with the template's sections, sidebar, section locks and who-sees-it settings. The page is yours: changing the template later doesn't change pages made from it, and nothing goes live until you publish.

Template and region pages, and password-protected pages, can't be saved as templates. A Moderator can save and use templates, but only an Admin can start a page from a template that has locked sections or admin-only blocks.

Governing bodies. An admin of a governing body can choose Also the organisations below you when saving or editing a template. The clubs below then see it under Start from, labelled Shared by your organisation, and each club copies it into its own page. You can't change their pages, and they can't change your template. Pages → Page templates shows how many pages were made from it here and at how many organisations below, never which ones. Their staff can read a shared template's content, so keep anything private out of it.

Translate a page into your other site languages (Pro)

If your site runs in more than one language (Pro plan, added under Other site languages in Business details), the Translations panel lists your other site languages and whether each one has a translation: Not translated, Draft or Published.

1. Select Add a translation beside a language. The translation editor opens with the title, search fields and a copy of the page's sections for that language. Change the words in each section and keep the layout. Images, links and settings come from the copy of the original.
2. To start from a machine draft, select Draft with Helix. Helix translates the original and saves it as a draft marked Drafted by Helix. It uses one Helix prompt from your daily allowance for every 5,000 characters or so.
3. Read it through and fix anything that reads wrongly, then select Publish. Readers who use that language now see your translation. Everyone else still sees the original.

If you edit the original later, the translation shows Original changed until you check it and save it again. It stays live in the meantime. To take a translation down, open it and select Unpublish.

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

• Let Helix write your search text. In SEO & sharing, select Draft with Helix to get a search title of 60 characters or fewer and a description of 155 or fewer. Insert fills both fields; they are saved with the page. See AI Studio.
• 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.
• Seeing "Not linked" on pages that look fine? We fixed two faults in this badge in September 2026, and the result is that it now flags more pages than it used to — each one genuinely unreachable. It had stopped noticing menu changes altogether, so a page you had added to your navigation could still be marked unlinked; that now works again. And a link from a page that is still a draft no longer counts, because nobody can see a draft, so it cannot help anyone find the page. If new badges appeared without you changing anything, that is what happened, and the pages really were unreachable. Publish the page holding the link, or add the page to a menu.
• 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.
• Reached the section limit? A page holds 40 sections and each sidebar 8. Remove one, or move part of the page to a new page and link to it with a Quick links or Call to action section.
• Where did the old sidebar limit go? Sidebars used to hold one widget from four types. They now hold up to 8 sections of almost any type, and a banner at the top of the page no longer hides them.
• A scheduled page didn't go live? Schedules are checked every five minutes, so give it a few minutes past the time. If the person who set the schedule is no longer an Admin or Moderator when it falls due, the schedule is cancelled instead, and the panel goes back to "Not scheduled". Set it again yourself.
• Restored the wrong version? Restore the one you wanted instead. Every restore is a new version, so nothing is lost.
• Can visitors see section notes? No. Notes are stored apart from the page content and only admins and moderators can read them.
• 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.
• Can I hide a section from visitors who aren't members? Yes. Set Who sees this section to Members only, and its content is never sent to anyone else. Synced sections are the exception, because their content is always public.
• Why can't I delete a section? It's locked. Ask an admin to unlock it.
• I changed a synced section and a page didn't update. Check that the page is published and still uses that synced section. A copy made with Synced unticked never updates.
• My three sections won't sit side by side. Set Row layout on the first of them. If a section in between has its own row layout, it starts a new row.
• I changed a template and my page didn't change. That's by design: a page made from a template is a copy. Edit the page itself.
• Forgot a page password? Nobody can read it back, us included. Set a new one under Password protection.
• Is a password-protected page secure? Its content is never sent until the password is right. It suits committee papers or team notes. For personal or sensitive information, use Members only so each person signs in.
• 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.
• Translations are a Pro feature. On another plan the Translations panel shows an upgrade note instead. If you move off Pro, your translations are kept, but visitors see only your main language until you upgrade again.