--- title: Editing Website Content description: Write and publish pages, posts, events, and wiki articles, place captioned images from your collection inside them, and link pages into your site navigation. section: guides order: 22 updated: 2026-07-12 verified: 2026-07-12 related: [guides/exploring-topics, guides/working-with-artifacts, guides/public-discovery] features: [website-content] --- # Editing Website Content You'll create and publish the written parts of your public site — pages, posts, events, and wiki articles — and embed images from your collection with captions, sizes, and text wrap. Open **Admin → Content** to see everything in one list, filterable by type. Pages are shown in their site hierarchy; posts and events are flat lists. **New** starts a piece of content of any type. ## Content types - **Pages** are evergreen site pages ("About", "Visit"). Each page can have a parent, and its URL follows the hierarchy: `/{your-institution}/visit/hours`. - **Posts** are dated news items at `/{your-institution}/posts/…`. - **Events** carry start/end times and a location, listed at `/{your-institution}/events`. - **Wiki articles** are knowledge pages about people, places, topics, and events at `/{your-institution}/wiki/…`. AI-generated topic overviews from Explore are saved as wiki articles — see [Exploring Topics](/docs/en-US/guides/exploring-topics). ## Build content from blocks The **Content** tab assembles a piece of content from blocks, ordered top to bottom with the arrow buttons: - **Markdown** — the main writing surface, a rich text editor with headings, lists, links, tables, callouts, and images. - **Callout** — a highlighted aside (info, warning, or success). - **Button** — a call-to-action link. - **Embed** — a YouTube or Vimeo URL. A hero image and a short summary (used on cards and in search results) sit above the blocks. ## Add images from your collection In a Markdown block, select the image button in the toolbar to open the artifact picker. Search your collection or upload a new image, then insert it. The image arrives as a **figure**: the image plus a caption, a size, and an alignment. - **Caption** — starts as the artifact's title; edit it freely. Captions support formatting — italics for a work's title, a link to a related page. Delete the caption text entirely if you don't want one; the space disappears on the public page. - **Size** — choose one of five presets: **thumb**, **small**, **medium**, **large**, or **full** (the full width of the text column). There is no freeform resizing; the presets keep image display consistent across your site. - **Alignment** — **left** or **right** floats the figure so your text wraps around it; **center** places it on its own line. Full-width figures ignore alignment. On the public page, the caption renders beneath the image. When the image belongs to an artifact in your collection, visitors can hover it to see the artifact's title and date, and click through to the artifact page in a new tab. :::note Figures always show the image at its natural proportions scaled to the chosen size. If you need a specific crop, upload a cropped image instead. ::: ## Preview and publish Content starts as a **draft**, visible only to your team. The lifecycle: - **Save draft / Update** saves your changes. **Preview** opens the saved version as visitors will see it — save first so the preview matches what you're looking at. - **Publish** makes the content live at its public URL. Published content shows an **Update** button for further edits and an **Unpublish** action to pull it back to draft. - **Archive** (in the ⋯ menu) retires content without deleting it; **Delete permanently** removes it and cannot be undone. The **Settings** tab controls the slug (the URL segment), the parent page for pages, visibility, scheduled publish/unpublish times, and search engine metadata. The **History** tab lists every saved revision with the option to restore an earlier one. :::tip Scheduling lets you stage announcements: set **Publish at** to a future time and the content appears on its own, no publish-day editing required. ::: ## Add pages to your site navigation Publishing a page doesn't place it in your site's menus — do that under **Admin → Website → Menus**, which manages the header and footer navigation. Each menu item has a label, a type, and a target: - **Content** (the default) links to one of your pages. The Target field is a searchable picker over every page on your site: type a label first and the picker lists the best-matching pages at the top, or pick a page first and the label fills in from the page's title. Pages not yet linked from any menu sort first, so it's easy to spot what's missing from navigation. - **URL** links to an external address (`https://…`). - **Route** links to a built-in section of your site that isn't a content page — for example `/{your-institution}/browse` or `/{your-institution}/collections`. Content items follow the page if its slug changes later, and they only appear to visitors while the page is published and public — unpublishing a page quietly drops its menu entry rather than leaving a broken link. Draft pages are shown in the picker (marked *draft*) so you can build navigation ahead of publishing. Items can nest one level: choose a **Parent** to create a dropdown under an existing item. ## Who can edit Content editing requires the **editor** or **admin** role in your institution. Visibility settings (members-only, staff-only) currently hide content from public visitors entirely; member-gated serving is not yet available on the public site.