Adding a page

Every page starts from a template: a ready-made layout of blocks you then edit in the page editor. You pick the template in the "Add a page" window.

Opening the window

There are two ways in:

• From Studio. In the Website tab, the Navigation block has a "New Page" button.
• From anywhere on Peakub. Open the Publish menu in the top bar and choose "New page". Here the window also asks which publication the page is for, in a "Publish in..." select under the templates. The one you updated most recently is picked first.

Pick a template and use "Continue". The page is created and opens in the editor straight away.

Choosing a template

Each template is a card with a small drawing of its layout, its name, a line about what it's for, and how many pages of it you already have ("Not used yet", "Used once", "Used 3 times"). When the template shows blocks, the card also says what they are ("2 galleries").

• Search. Type in "Search a page" to find a template by its name or its description.
• Tabs. All, then Publication (the pages about your publication itself), then what a page is for: Grow, Showcase, Inform and Community, then one tab per profession a template suits. Only the tabs that have a template are shown.
• Recommended. On a new publication (fewer than four pages), the templates that suit a first site get a "Recommended" badge, until you have made a page from them.
• How it works. A help icon on a card opens its guide in a new tab.

The "Add a page" window: search, tabs and template cards.

When a template can't be picked, or needs more

• A feature it needs is off. The card is greyed out and says "Turn on Book club first" (or whichever feature it needs). Turn the feature on, then come back.
• It has reached its limit. Some templates can only be used once (Home, About, Links, Articles...). Their card counts it ("Used 0 of 1"), and once you have the page, the card is greyed out and reads "Used 1 of 1".
• It works best with more content. When you don't have enough published yet, the card says so in a line ("Best with 3 published articles"). You can still pick it.

The templates

• Empty: a blank page to compose entirely yourself.
• Home, About, Links: your home page, a page introducing your publication, and one list for your bio with your publication, your accounts and your other links.
• Articles, Visuals: a collection of your articles, or of your visuals and decks.
• Archive, Leaderboard: your past creations; your top subscribers and contributors.
• Book club, Book club reviews, Pegboard: pages for a book club, offered once the book club is on. The Pegboard is a board where your subscribers write and draw.
• Events: your events, offered once events are on.

What happens to the new page

Each template says how its page starts:

• Published or draft. Most pages are published at once. The Empty page, the Leaderboard and the Pegboard start as drafts: they stay hidden from readers until you publish them.
• In the menu or not. Pages like About, Articles or Book club start in your menu. The Empty page, Archive, Leaderboard and Links start outside it: move them in from the Website tab (see Your pages and menu).
• Where it sits. Home always takes the first place in the menu, and can't be moved. Each of the other templates has a place it prefers: the Articles page near the start, About near the end.
• Footer pages. Archive and Leaderboard don't go in the menu bar: once they're published and visible, they appear in a row of links at the foot of every page.
• Its address. Each page gets an address from its template (for example "about-us" or "links"), made free if it's taken. You can change it in the editor.
• Search engines. The Leaderboard and the Pegboard ask search engines not to list them. The other templates are listed.

The Activity and Contributors templates are no longer offered.

When a template gets a new layout

If a template you used has since received a new layout, its page shows a "A new layout of this page's template is available." banner at the top of the editor. "Use the new layout" replaces the page's content with the template's, after you confirm. Your readers keep the published page until you publish again.