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Your own pages: About, Rules, Directions, and anything else

Write a page, give it an address, put it in the menu. The same editor you use everywhere else, with pictures.

Updated September 3, 2026

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What a page isWriting oneDrafts and publishingThe menuAddresses that will not workWhat pages do not doWhere to startKeep reading

What a page is

Your site already has the pages a show needs: registration, voting, sponsorship, contact. A custom page is one you decide on. About the club. Show rules. Directions and parking. A thank-you to last year’s sponsors. Anything a visitor keeps asking that deserves a permanent answer at a permanent address.

Pages belong to your organization, not to one show. Write the About page once and it stays up through every show you run.

Writing one

Open Manage, then Pages, then New page. Give it a title and the address fills itself in: “About the club” becomes yoursite/about-the-club/. Change the address if you want something shorter, like about.

The New page editor with title, address, and the rich text body
The page editor: title, address, and a body with headings, lists, links, and pictures.

The body is the same editor you use for the donate page and email blasts, with one addition: pictures. Drag a photo in or paste it and it uploads on its own, or choose one you already uploaded from the library. Headings, lists, links, and quotes all work the way you expect.

Every picture your organization uploads lands in one media library, under Manage, then Media, so a photo from last year’s gallery can go on this year’s page without hunting for the file. The same “choose from library” sits beside every picture field in Manage: the club logo, a sponsor’s logo, a category picture, the show’s own images. Picking one copies it into place, so deleting a picture from the library later never blanks a page that used it. Pictures are cleaned and sized down as they come in, up to 12 MB each, and the library holds 500 files per organization.

The search snippet is optional. If you fill it in, that is the sentence search engines show under your page; if you leave it blank, they pick one.

Drafts and publishing

A new page starts as a draft. You can open a draft at its real address while signed in and read it the way a visitor will, then turn Published on when it is ready. Until then, visitors who guess the address get a not-found page and nothing more.

The Pages list showing each page with its address and status badges
Pages: published, draft, and in-menu at a glance.

Turn Published off again any time. The page keeps its words and its address; it just stops answering.

The menu

Show in the site menu adds a published page to the navigation on every public page of your site, next to Home. Menu position decides the order when you have several: lower numbers come first. A page can also be published and left out of the menu, which suits pages you only ever link to from somewhere specific.

Addresses that will not work

Pages and shows share the top level of your site, so an address belongs to one or the other and the editor refuses a clash in either direction. The site’s own routes are off limits too: register, vote, kiosk, manage, and a handful of others. The editor names the problem when you hit one.

What pages do not do

There is no theme editor and no page builder. A page is a title, an address, and a body, styled to match the rest of your site. That is on purpose: a page you can finish in ten minutes gets written, and the menu stays readable on a phone.

Pages do not replace your show page either. The show page is built from your settings and your show’s details; a custom page is free-form, and the two sit side by side.

Where to start

Most clubs write About first: who runs the show, how long it has been going, where the money goes. Then Rules, so nobody has to ask at the gate. Open Manage, then Pages, and write the one your visitors ask about most.

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Pages, answered

Can I see a page before it goes live?

Yes. Leave Published off and the page is a draft: anyone signed in to your organization can open it at its real address and proof it, and everyone else gets a not-found page. Turn Published on when it reads right.

Can a page have the same address as one of my shows?

No, and the editor will tell you so. Pages and shows share the top level of your site, so an address belongs to one or the other. The editor also refuses addresses the site itself uses, like register or vote.

Who can write pages?

Owners and admins. Staff volunteers can run the gate and the registration table, but the club's public words stay with the people who run the club.

Do pages belong to a show or to the club?

The club. An About page written this year is still there next year, on every show your organization runs, without being copied anywhere.

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A real person answers, usually the same day.

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