Create pages
Add a standalone page to your Basker site — set its title, where it sits in your navigation, and which template it uses, then save as a draft before adding content
Pages are how you add standalone content to your Basker site — your About, Contact, landing pages, and anything else that isn't powered by a more specific content type. Pages are organised in a tree that shapes both your site's navigation and the URLs visitors see.
When you create a page, you set up its position and template first, then save it as a draft and add content afterwards. Pages can be moved or renamed at any time without losing content.
Create a new page
Open the Pages area under Website in Basker. The Pages screen is titled "Pages" with the subtitle Build and manage your website pages.
Click Create New
On the Pages screen, click CREATE NEW at the top to open the page editor.
Add a title and description
On the Content tab, fill in the Title (required) and Description. The title becomes the page's main heading and the label used in your site's navigation. The description is the short summary used in listings and as the default SEO description.
Configure the URL slug
The right-hand sidebar has a Slug section with a Generate from title toggle that's on by default. Leave it on and Basker generates the slug from your title automatically. Turn it off if you want to type a slug yourself.
Slugs must be unique within a location
A slug only needs to be unique among siblings under the same parent page. The same slug can appear elsewhere in the page tree.
Add a main image
The sidebar's Main Image section has two options: CREATE NEW to upload a new image, or CHOOSE FROM EXISTING to pick one from the media library. You can also drag a file directly onto the section.
Choose the parent page
The sidebar's Parent dropdown nests this page under another in the site hierarchy, which affects both its URL path and breadcrumb trail. Leave it empty for a top-level page.
Set visibility
The sidebar has two checkboxes that are on by default:
- Show in Navigation — uncheck to hide the page from your site's menus while keeping it reachable by direct URL.
- Show in Search — uncheck to exclude the page from your site's search and from external search engines.
See Visibility for the full picture.
Select a template
The sidebar's Template dropdown is set to Default out of the box. Pick a different template if your theme exposes one that better fits this page. The available templates come from the theme installed on your site.
Save as a draft
Click Save Draft at the top right to save the page without publishing it. The page is preserved in Basker but invisible to visitors. Click Publish when you're ready to make the page live.
How pages are organised
The procedure above touches several things; the sections below cover them in more detail for when you need them.
Page hierarchy
Pages in Basker can stand on their own or sit underneath a parent page. The parent–child relationship shapes both the navigation and the URL.
A top-level page sits in the root of the page tree and typically appears in the main site navigation. A child page is nested under a parent and inherits the parent's URL prefix, which is how subpages such as about/team or services/web-design are formed.
To create a subpage, choose a Parent during creation. To restructure later, open the page tree view and move the page to a new parent — its URL and navigation position update with it.
Templates
A template controls the layout and structure of a page on the live site. The available templates come from the theme you have selected, so switching themes changes the list — and may leave existing pages without an equivalent template to fall back on.
Drafts and publishing
Saving a new page as a draft preserves the title, slug, parent, template, and main image without making the page visible to visitors. Drafts are only visible to editors inside Basker, which makes them the safe default while a page is still being assembled.
When the content is ready, click Publish to make the page live. The publish button has a chevron menu next to it for additional options like scheduling. You can return a published page to draft state at any time if you need to take it offline without deleting it.
Other tabs in the editor
The page editor has three tabs:
- Content — title, description, and the blocks that make up the page body. See Building pages with blocks.
- Theme Settings — per-page overrides for the theme's defaults. See Theme settings.
- SEO — meta title, description, and image. See SEO.