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Pages are the fundamental building blocks of your website. Below you can find out how to setup a page from scratch.

Choose your page slug

The page slug is its name in the url, in a Wagon site it's defined by the filename without extension. It should only contains alphabetic characters, numbers and "-" or "_". The full path of a page contains its parent (and ancestors).

+ index
    + company
        + presentation

In this example, the presentation page full path will be /company/presentation.

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Dash or underscore?

By default, Wagon converts underscores to dashes in the filename of a page. In SEO, dashes are better than underscores.
If you do want to use an underscore, just override the slug attribute in the page YAML file.

Use the command line generator

wagon generate page <<your page slug>>

You will be asked 2 things:

  • whether you want HAML template: answer 'no' if you're not familiar with HAML.
  • whether you want a localized template: answer 'no' (multilingual is another topic...)

It will generate a file: app/views/page/YOUR PAGE SLUG.liquid.

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Note: In the generate command, you can set the full path of your page:

bundle exec wagon generate page company/presentation.
It will create app/views/pages/company.liquid and app/views/pages/company/presentation.liquid.

Page header

Before the page content, there is a header, enclosed by "---". It contains meta-information about the page using the yaml syntax.

---
title: Page title
published: true
listed: false
---

If your page extends another one, remember it should be the first instruction after the header.

Here are some possible options that can be used in the page header:

PropertyDescription
titleThe page title is used in the backoffice and in your template. You can use {{ page.title }} to display it in your page template.
handleUsed when invoked by the link_to (or path_to)tag.
publishedIf set to false, the page won't be publicly visible once hosted in an engine. It will be visible within the Wagon webserver.
listedThe listed option is used to decide if the page should be listed in the menu.
positionSet the position among sibling pages. This is used for ordering in menus. Accepts integers (1, 2, 3, ...)
seo_titleSet the title for SEO, you can use it through the {% seo %} tag or {{ page.seo_title }} in your page template.
meta_descriptionSame as seo_title for the meta description. You can use {{ page.meta_description }} in your page template.
meta_keywordsSame as seo_title for the meta keywords. You can use {{ page.meta_keywords }} in your page template.
redirect_urlSet a redirection to the given url (301).
allow_layoutIf set to false, the page's layout won't be changeable in the back-office.
response_typeWhile not included in the page header by default, the default setting is text/html. Other possible values are application/json, application/xml, application/rss+xml.

Note: If you have set the response type to anything other than text/html, simply removing the property will not return the page to the default setting in the Back Office. You will need to explicitly set it to text/html.

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Multiple child pages + a content_type_template

Note when you have a content-type-template in a parent folder with multiple other child pages like this:

+ index
    + projects
        + content_type_template
        + page_1
        + page_2
        + ...

You have to add positions which are lower to all the child pages (page_1, page_2, ...). It is recommended to give the content-type-template a position of 99. Other pages can get a lower number (1 -> 98).

Updated over 3 years ago