Pages — what they are and how they show up

Pages are the lightweight content surface for your troop site. Each page is a separate URL at /pages/{slug} and the troop's /pages index shows them all as a list of links.

Three kinds of pages

• Standard — rich-text content authored in the WYSIWYG editor. Use for "About us", "Join us", policy pages, anything narrative.
• Album — a photo collection with no text body. See Album pages for the full flow.
• Folder — a container with no content of its own. Visiting a folder shows a list of the pages nested inside it. Use folders to group related pages once the list gets long (e.g. a Photos folder holding several albums).

Pick the type when you create the page. You can't convert between types after creation, so re-create if you change your mind.

Folders and nesting

Only folders can contain other pages — standard and album pages are always leaves. When a page is nested under a folder, the folder's slug becomes part of its URL: a Spring Camp page inside a Photos folder lives at /pages/photos/spring-camp. Folders can be nested inside other folders, up to a sensible depth.

Set a page's folder in two ways:

• When creating or editing, choose a Parent folder from the dropdown ("Top level" keeps it ungrouped).
• On the admin Pages list, drag a row to the right so it appears indented under a folder.

Moving a page changes its URL (and the URLs of anything nested inside it). The old URL stops working — there's no automatic redirect — so avoid moving pages that are widely linked. A folder can't be deleted while it still has pages inside it; move or delete its contents first.

The homepage

Exactly one page can be marked Use as homepage. That page is what anonymous visitors see at the root URL (https://yourtroop.mytroop.org/).

For signed-in members the site root goes to the calendar instead, so members reach the homepage from the /pages list — the homepage row shows a Home badge to make it easy to find.

The homepage is always a standard page. Album pages can't be the homepage; the checkbox is hidden in the album editor.

Public vs members-only

The Public (visible without login) checkbox controls whether anonymous visitors can read the page. Members always see every page in the troop, regardless of this flag. (It's a visibility flag, not a draft/publish flag — there is no draft mode; saving publishes.)

The /pages index

The public index at /pages lists:

1. Every page the viewer can see (homepage included, with a "Home" badge).
2. The built-in entries — Mailing Lists (members only) and Albums (everyone).

Order is controlled from the admin pages manager (see below). The order on /pages matches what you set in admin — built-in entries can be slotted anywhere in the list, not just appended to the end.

Managing pages

Admin > Pages shows the same list with three differences:

• Each row has a drag handle on the left — drag up/down to reorder, or drag to the right to nest a page under a folder. The new order saves automatically and reflects on the public /pages index immediately. Only top-level pages appear on the /pages index; nested pages are reached by opening their folder.
• Built-in entries (Mailing Lists, Albums) appear with a small lock icon and a "Built-in" badge. They're draggable but not editable — they don't link anywhere from the admin list.
• Each real page row links to its edit screen.

Use New Page in the top right to create a standard or album page.

Slugs

The slug is the page's own segment of the URL. Lowercase letters, digits, and hyphens only. The form auto-derives it from the title; click in the slug field to override. For a top-level page the full URL is /pages/{slug}; for a nested page the parent folders' slugs are prepended (/pages/{folder}/{slug}).

The slug is editable after creation. Changing it breaks any external links pointing at the old URL, so think twice before renaming a popular page.