Page settings

The Page settings section of the edit screen holds the properties of the page itself, as distinct from its blocks. It is collapsed when the edit screen opens; select its heading to expand it. For the Page content type, the section contains these fields, in this order (other content types define their own fields in place of Title, Subtitle and Article date):

Field	What it does
Title	The page's heading and its name in the panel.
Subtitle	Optional. A Page List block with Show summaries turned on uses it as the page's summary.
Article date	Optional. The dateline on the article layout. Left empty, the date the page was published is used.
Slug	The last segment of the page's address. See section 4.
Template	Selects the layout the page is drawn with: which header and footer it has, whether it has a sidebar, and where blocks are placed. The templates are defined by the developer. The field is shown only when more than one template is available. The template is stored on the version, so a template change can be previewed and rolled back.
Custom classes	Adds CSS class names to the page's <body> element. A stylesheet rule written against one of them can reach anything on the page, including the site header and footer. Type a class and press Enter. Use it when a single page needs to look different and no template covers it; the developer writes the matching rule. A name CSS cannot select, such as one starting with a digit or containing a space or a quote, is discarded and not written into the page.
Language	The page's language, on a multilingual site only. It can be chosen when the page is created and is fixed afterwards. See section 14.
Parent	The page this one sits beneath, which determines its address. Changing it moves the page and every page beneath it, and records redirects from the old addresses automatically. The list offers only pages in the same language.
Sort	A number setting the page's position among its siblings. Dragging the page in the tree view sets it.
Tags	The tags applied to the page. See section 16.
Use as homepage	Makes this page the site's front page. Each language has one homepage, so turning this on for a second page clears it from the first.
Navigation label	Used instead of the title wherever the page appears in a menu. Use it when a page heading is too long for a menu item; for example, a page titled "Every save is a new version" can appear in the header as "Notes". Left empty, the title is used.
Navigation description	One line shown under the page's label where the page is a link inside a column of a menu panel. See section 15.
Navigation image	An image shown beside the page's label in the same place. See section 15.
Where this page appears	Three switches controlling where the site lists the page. Described below.
Publish at and Unpublish at	Schedule the page. See section 10.
SEO	A nested section controlling how the page appears in search results and when its address is shared. Described below.

Where this page appears

The Where this page appears section, inside Page settings, holds three switches. All three are off by default. None of them changes the page's address: the page stays published, and anyone with its address can read it.

Hide from navigation removes the page from menus the site builds from the page tree, including the one in the header.
Hide from page lists removes it from Page List blocks, related items and next/previous links.
Hide from sitemap.xml removes it from the sitemap the site publishes for search engines.

The switches are independent. A privacy policy page typically uses only the first: it is left out of the menu and still listed by search engines. A "thank you for your inquiry" page typically uses all three.

These switches do not do two things:

They do not make a page private. To stop a page being readable, unpublish it.
Hide from sitemap.xml is not the same as Hide from search engines in the SEO section. Hiding from the sitemap only stops the site listing the page for crawlers; the page can still be indexed if another page links to it. Hide from search engines emits a noindex,nofollow instruction, which asks search engines not to list the page. Use **Hide from search engines** to keep a page out of search results.

A change to these switches takes effect when the page is published, like any other edit.

SEO

The SEO section, nested inside Page settings, controls how the page appears in search results and what a link to it shows when shared on social media. It is collapsed by default. Every field falls back to a value derived from the page when left blank, so in most cases only Meta description needs filling in.

Field	What it does
Meta title	The title search engines show. Up to 70 characters. Falls back to the page title.
Meta description	The summary search engines show. Up to 180 characters.
Page type	The kind of page, for structured data. See Structured data.
Custom JSON-LD	Hand-written structured data. See Structured data.
Canonical URL	The preferred address of the page, where the same content is published at more than one address.
Hide from search engines	Emits noindex,nofollow. The page is still served normally.
Social sharing	A collapsed subsection with Share title, Share description, Share image, Type and X card: what Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack and X show when someone posts a link to the page. Each falls back to the field above it, and Share image falls back to the site-wide share image.