Content editing & navigation
Add custom pages to your ClubPal site, choose who can see them, and manage your site menu, all from one screen.
ClubPal has content management tools that allow you to add custom pages to your ClubPal site. This means you can add information about your club, or even host your club's website on ClubPal.
Every page on your site (your own custom pages, the built-in pages ClubPal provides, and your blogs) is managed from one screen: Admin > Content > Pages. From there you also control what appears in your site menu, and you can restrict a custom page to particular members using eligibility rules.
For a list of dated posts, such as club news or match reports, see Blogs instead of a single content page.
How each page is edited
ClubPal is moving every editable page onto the page editor, where a page is built from sections and blocks. Some built-in pages are still edited with the older portlet style. This table is the quickest way to tell which is which.
| Page | How you edit it |
|---|---|
| Your custom content pages | Page editor |
| Home | Page editor |
| Membership, Passes, Contact, Payment | Classic portlets |
The Pages screen
Go to Admin > Content > Pages. Every page your site can show lives here, split into two areas:
- Navigation: shown in the site menu, in this order.
- Not in navigation: pages that exist and are reachable by their web address, but are not linked from the menu.
Drag a page between the two areas to add it to the menu or remove it, without deleting the page itself. Drag within Navigation to reorder the menu, and drag an item slightly to the right, just below the page you want as its parent, to nest it one level deep as a dropdown. Use the Filter by page name search box to find a page in a long list.
Every row carries a type badge:
| Badge | What it is |
|---|---|
| Page | One of your own custom content pages |
| Built-in | A page ClubPal provides, such as Sessions, Membership, or Store |
| Blog | A blog you have created |
A row also shows a Draft badge if a custom page is unpublished, and a chip summarising who can see it when access is restricted.
Tree position (what's in the menu, its order, and its dropdowns) is not saved until you click Save changes. That button stays disabled until you actually drag something. A node's own settings, covered next, save immediately when you click Save in its settings dialog, so they are not affected by whether you have unsaved tree changes.
Each row has a settings button (the gear icon), and content pages also have a delete button (the trash icon). What the settings button opens depends on the row's type.
Adding a page or a blog
Click Add above the list, then choose Add page or Add blog.
Adding a page opens the same settings dialog described below, with the title Add page. Fill in a title, description, and web address, then click Save. You are taken straight into the page editor to build its content, see Page editor.
Adding a blog takes you to the blog's own edit screen, see Blogs.
Your own pages
Click the settings button on one of your custom pages to open Page settings.
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Page title | Used as the title in the browser address bar, on the page header, and by search engines for listing content. |
| Description | A short summary used by search engines and link previews. It is not shown to visitors on the page itself. |
| URL | The address of the page on your site, for example a URL of about-us gives an address of https://your-site.clubpal.app/about-us. Changing it breaks any existing links to the old address. |
| Published | An unpublished page is visible to administrators only. Set it to Published when you are ready for everyone to see it. |
| Menu label | The wording shown in the site menu. Only appears once the page is in Navigation; a page on the shelf has no menu label to set until you drag it in. |
Who can see the page is set separately, see Restricting who can see a page below.
Deleting a page (the trash icon on its row) cannot be undone, so double check before confirming.
Built-in pages
Click the settings button on a built-in page, such as Sessions or Membership, and you get a short explanation rather than a form: built-in pages are controlled by the feature they belong to, so only their menu label can be changed here.
If a built-in page's feature is switched off for your club, its row shows an Off in settings chip, and its settings dialog points you to the setting that turns it on, for example Open Membership settings. This is so adding a switched-off feature to your menu tells you why nothing is showing, rather than leaving a link on your site that goes nowhere. Files is the exception: it has no settings screen of its own, so its dialog explains that instead of offering a link.
Blogs
Click the settings button on a blog and you get its menu label plus a link to Manage this blog, which takes you to Admin > Content > Blogs. A blog's own settings, including who can see it and what it contains, live on the blog itself, not in this dialog. See Blogs.
Blogs do not support the eligibility rules described below. A blog's own Members Only setting is a separate, simpler switch, see Blogs.
Restricting who can see a page
Open the settings for one of your own pages and scroll to Who can see this page. Leave it empty and the page is public. Add a rule group and a visitor must satisfy every rule inside it, otherwise the page is hidden from the menu and refuses to open.
These are the same eligibility rules already used for sessions, passes, products, and membership packages, see Eligibility rules for the full reference. On a page you can restrict by membership, member group, age range, gender, a profile field value, or a required qualification.
For example, to keep a page visible only to your coaches:
- Open the page's settings and scroll to Who can see this page.
- Click Add Rule Group.
- Click Add Rule and choose Required Groups.
- Select your Coaches group.
- Click Save.
Anyone who is not in the Coaches group now sees a page explaining what they would need to view it, rather than a generic "members only" message. If they are not signed in, they are also offered a link to log in.
If your page already had Members Only switched on before this change, it keeps working exactly as before: it is treated as requiring an active membership, using the same rule editor.
Page banners
Content pages, along with other top-level pages such as Home, Sessions, Membership, and Passes, support a custom banner image displayed behind the page title. Click the Banner button in the page toolbar (requires the Manage Content permission) to upload one, or the trash icon to remove it.
A banner is separate from the page's content, so it is set the same way whichever editor the page uses. See Club branding for full details on banner images.
Permissions
To use the content editing features, users must have the Manage Content permission. This permission allows users to:
- See the Edit Page button on pages.
- Enter edit mode to add, configure, delete, and reorder blocks, or edit portlets.
- Save changes, and preview and restore earlier versions of a page.
- Manage pages, their access rules, and site navigation from Admin > Content > Pages.
See Permissions for how to grant this permission to a member.
Users without this permission will see pages as normal visitors and won't have access to any editing features.
Frequently asked questions
Which editor does my page use?
See How each page is edited. If the page shows a bar across the top of the screen when you click Edit Page, it is the page editor.
Can I hide a page from visitors while I work on it?
Yes. Leave Published off in the page's settings. The page is then only visible to users with the Manage Content permission, and a banner on the page reminds you it is unpublished, with a Publish button to make it live.
What happened to Content > Navigation?
It has been merged into Admin > Content > Pages. Instead of a separate menu editor, you drag any page, built-in or blog straight into the Navigation area of the same screen that lists all your pages. A bookmark to the old Navigation screen redirects you here automatically.
Why can't I use the URL home for a page?
That address belongs to your homepage. If you type /home into your browser, ClubPal sends you straight to your site's root address instead.