Editing the homepage

The homepage is not in Pages. Looking for it there is the most common wrong turn — it isn't listed, and there is nothing to find.

The homepage has its own screen called Home, under Collections in the left-hand menu.

How the homepage is built

The homepage is made of blocks — sections stacked one above the other, in the order you put them. There is only ever one homepage; you edit it, you never create a new one.

When you open Home, the blocks are collapsed so you see the running order at a glance. Click any one to open it.

The blocks available here

The homepage draws from its own set of ten blocks — not the full library available on an ordinary page:

Hero, Banner, Slider, Partners, Feature Cards, Award, Statistics, Regional Map, News Highlight, Events List.

Three of these pull in content you manage elsewhere rather than content you type directly into the block:

• Feature Cards shows cards from the Feature Cards collection under Content. Create a card there first — Title, Description, an icon, a background Color, and what it links to — then choose it in the block. Don't try to write the card's text inside the block itself; edit it at the source and it updates everywhere it's used.
• Regional Map draws on the Regions screen under Site Features — the tab labels, region names and the association list under each region. See Regions.
• News Highlight and Events List pull automatically from your News and Events collections. You don't type items into these blocks; they stay current on their own.

If a card, region or article looks wrong on the homepage, fix it at its source collection — it updates everywhere it's used.

Making a change

1. Click Home under Collections.
2. Click the block you want to change. It opens.
3. Make your change.
4. Click Save at the top.

Adding a block

1. Scroll to the bottom of the block list.
2. Click Add Block.
3. Choose one of the ten.
4. Fill it in.
5. Save.

Reordering

Drag a block by the handle on its left. The order here is the order down the homepage, top to bottom.

Click Save after dragging. Reordering is not saved automatically.

Removing a block

Click the × on the block, then Save. The layout field is required, so the homepage can't be left completely empty — if you're replacing a section, add the new block before removing the old one.

Before you save

The homepage is the first thing every visitor sees, and there is no draft version of it — saving publishes immediately. If you're making a large change, do it in one sitting rather than leaving it half-finished.

Unlike Header and Footer, there's no version history to fall back on here either. A save on this screen is the one save in the whole CMS with no way back at all — not even a restorable earlier version. See Drafts and version history.

Related

• Pages and the page builder
• Header
• Regions
• Drafts and version history