With landing pages you can create dynamic pages with a wide range of content to be consumed by your site's visitors. Each Stacks site will have a minimum of 1 landing page, default named Homepage, but you can add more landing pages as needed.
This article will focus on how users with the Administrator or Moderator role can add and remove content from a landing page and how to edit the layout.
Adding Content
Accessing the Landing Page
To add content, you must first navigate to the page that you wish to add the content to.
- From the Dashboard, click Landing Pages
- Find the page by
- Browsing the list; or
- Searching the name of the landing page
- Once found, click the Title
- This will take you to the landing page's front-end view
- Click the Layout tab, located between the header and the landing page title
From this layout editor you can modify the layout of the landing page by adding or deleting sections which will contain the blocks of content you wish to add.
Adding Sections and Content
Adding Sections
Each landing page can be divided into sections which can then contain blocks of content. These sections can be configured to appear as 1, 2, or 3 column layouts depending on the look you want for your page.
Keep in mind the content you plan to add to the section, for example, a resource flow or slider may display better in a 1 column section, where as RSS F]feeds or news articles could display well in a 2 or 3 column section.
By default, a newly created landing page will have a default one-column section and an option to add additional sections.
To add a new section:
- Click +Add section
- An option slider will appear on the right
- Select from the One column, Two column, or Three column layout options
- Select the Column widths
- Note, 2-column configuration is fixed at 50%/50%; however, you can select from two options for a 3-column configuration either 33%/34%/33% or 25%/50%/25%
- Administrative label - add a label to appear in the top left corner of the section, this is only visible when in this layout builder viewer (this will not be visible to users/patrons)
- Click Add section
- Select the Column widths
- Select from the One column, Two column, or Three column layout options
- An option slider will appear on the right
- Click Save layout, located at the top of the page (just below the page title)
Adding Content
Through the Add Block button in each section, you can add already created content such as callouts, custom blocks, feeds, easy forms, locations and hours, and more.
- In the desired section click +Add block
- In the window that opens, scroll to and click the title of the content to add, or use the filter field at the top to filter by the content title
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Heading, by default this will be the value entered into the Title field when the content was created, from here you have 3 options:
- Leave the value as is to be displayed on the landing page
- Note: the heading will be displayed just above the content and will be left justified
- Overwrite the value with a new heading
- Note: this will not change the original title when searching or viewing this content in the dashboard
- Hide the heading by clicking the eyeball icon to the right
- Leave the value as is to be displayed on the landing page
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Helper Text, enter a brief description if you wish to provide help or more context on how users/patrons can use this content
- Note: the display of helper text is tied to the visibility of the heading, if the heading is hidden the helper text will be as well
- Subheading, if necessary, add a subheading
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Additional Settings
- Depending on the content being added, additional fields and settings may appear below. For example, when adding a slider, options will appear to chose the style of slider (large or mini), as well as its layout, and settings to control the slider appearance and operation
- Click Add Block to add the block to the section
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Heading, by default this will be the value entered into the Title field when the content was created, from here you have 3 options:
- In the window that opens, scroll to and click the title of the content to add, or use the filter field at the top to filter by the content title
- Scroll to the top of the page and click Save layout to save the layout and content addition to the page