City Tech OpenLab

Creating pages on your Site

1. From your site’s Dashboard, click on Pages > Add New in the left hand menu.

2. Add a title to your page. You will notice that the title is automatically formatted in a title heading style.

Add content to your page

1. Add content to your page by adding blocks. The default block type is a paragraph block, which you can start using just by typing where it says “Start writing or type / to choose a block” or by pasting in text from Microsoft Word or another program. When you start writing, a block toolbar with formatting options will appear. If you want to format your text, highlight the text that you want to change and click the appropriate button from the formatting toolbar.

2. To add another type of block, you can search for other block types by typing a forward slash followed by the block name, for example: “/image” or “/heading”. Then, choose the type of block you want to use. Please note that this only works if you have no other text in the block.

You can also add a block by clicking on the add block button —the the black ‘+’ button on the right side of any empty block or the the blue ‘+’ button in the upper left corner of the editor. Once the block library appears, simply select the kind of content you would like to add, such as a heading, an image, or a video.

Publishing your page

There are a few options once you’re finished creating your page:

1. Publish your page: If you’re ready for your post to be published on the site, click Publish. And you’re done! You can now view your post on the site.

1. Once you have finished adding everything to your page, click Publish on the right-hand side of the editing toolbar. If you would like to see how your page will look before you publish it, click the Preview icon to the left of the ‘Publish’ button, which looks like a laptop. Additionally, if you would like to continue working on your page and publish it at a later time, click Save Draft, which is to the left of Preview.

2. Choose additional privacy settings: There are a few different privacy options for your page, depending on whether the site you’re working on is public, private, or visible to OpenLab members only.

If the site is public, you have three additional privacy options in the ‘More visibility options’ section:

Everyone: This is the default setting, which matches the setting of the open site.
Site Members: Only logged-in members of the site can see the page.
OpenLab members only: Only logged-in members of the OpenLab can see the page.

If the site is visible to OpenLab members only, you have two additional privacy options in the ‘More visibility options’ section:

OpenLab members only: Only logged-in members of the OpenLab can see the page.

Site Members: Only logged-in members of the site can see the page.

If your site is public, it’s best to use the privacy options described above. In addition, all sites, regardless of privacy settings, have three options that appear in the ‘Visibility’ section:

Public is the default. Anyone who can view the site can see your page. For example, if the site is private, only members of the site can see your post. If the site is public, anyone can see your post.
Password Protected makes it available only to people who enter a password that you set for the page.
Private makes it accessible only to site administrators.

To choose either password protected or private, click the Public link next to Visibility, and the three options described above will appear.