Add a page and give it an address

The site is generated from the Page Map, not from the list of pages. That single fact explains most "my page is not showing" reports.

Create a page

What a Page Map entry carries

Each entry names a path, points at a file, and decides whether the page appears in the navigation menu.

Turning Show in menu off does not hide the page. The page stays reachable at its address, indexable by search engines, and linkable from anywhere. It stops crowding the navigation bar. Legal pages, landing pages, and support articles all belong in that category.

Never change a slug

The slug is the address. Renaming it breaks every link anyone already has, every bookmark, and the search ranking that address has accumulated.

When a page genuinely needs a new address, create the new one and add a redirect from the old address to the new one. See redirects.

Two-level addresses

An address can carry two segments: /vs/wix and /support/domains both work. Three does not; the build refuses a path such as /support/billing/invoices.

The mechanism is worth knowing because it is not obvious. The page file itself stays flat, and the Page Map entry supplies the nested path:

So a nested address is one flat page plus one Page Map entry that nests it. There is no folder anywhere.

Structuring a menu that stays usable

Put the pages people arrive looking for in the menu, and leave everything else out of it. A navigation bar of twenty items communicates less than one of six. The footer is the right home for the long tail.

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