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Content settings
Set up the websites your content is published to, including the domain, homepage, blog, search and page builder elements.
Content settings control where your pages, posts and blog categories are published. Each website links a domain to a homepage, a blog and a search page, so everything you create in Strengthen → Content knows where it belongs. Go to Account → Settings → Content to see your websites.
Before you start
- Content must be included in your package. See Package and add-ons.
- This page is for subscription administrators, and for users who have been given the website permissions directly. See Users, teams, groups and permissions.
- Add your website's domain in Account → Domains first, because you choose it from a list. See Domains.
- Several settings connect Structurell to your website's code. Have your web developer to hand when you set up a new website.
Add a website
- Go to Account → Settings → Content and select New.
- On the General tab, enter a Name and choose the Domain Name.
- Leave Status as disabled until the website is ready to go live. New websites start disabled.
- Save the website. The Website Settings page opens.
- In the Page Routing notice, select Add Root Page. The page editor opens with a new homepage linked to this website. See Creating and editing pages.
- Back in Website Settings, check that your homepage is selected as the Root Page.
- Complete the other tabs described below, then set Status to enabled and save.
If a website is enabled but has no root page, the Page Routing notice turns red, because visitors have no homepage to land on.
Website settings tabs
| Tab | Settings |
|---|---|
| General | Name, Domain Name, Root Page (the homepage, with every other page beneath it) and Status. |
| URLs/Publishing | Token (a shared secret, hidden like a password), Cache Clear URL and Clear All Frontend Cache (addresses Structurell calls to refresh one page or the whole site after you publish), and Element Config URL (where Structurell finds the page builder components your website supports). Usually filled in by your web developer. |
| Blog | Root Blog Category, Blog enabled, Blog Landing Page (its address starts every post and category address) and Fallback Blog Path (used when no landing page is chosen). See Blog categories and authors. |
| Search | Search enabled, Search Page and Fallback Search Path. |
| Public Site settings | Robots, Favicon, Public Site and reCAPTCHA connection (protects your website's forms from spam; see Connecting a provider). These are read by your website's code, so check with your developer before changing them. |
| Elements | Shown once the website is saved. Lists the page builder components your website supports, with their Name, Code and Type. |
Page builder elements
On the Elements tab:
- Select Import Elements to refresh the list from your Element Config URL. Do this after your developer adds or changes components.
- The Deploy webhook section gives your developer a URL to call from their deployment process, so elements are re-imported automatically each time a new version of your website goes live. Select Copy URL to copy it. If no URL is shown yet, select Regenerate secret to create one.
- Regenerate secret replaces the webhook URL. You're asked to confirm, and the old URL stops working straight away, so update your deployment process at the same time.
Manage your websites
Select a website in the list to open its Website Settings. If you can manage websites, each row's actions menu also has:
- Clear Frontend Cache: asks your website to refresh its copy of your content. Use it if published changes aren't showing.
- Import Elements: refreshes the website's page builder components.
To take a website offline for a while, set its Status to disabled rather than deleting it.
Troubleshooting
- Domain Name has no options: add the domain in Account → Domains first.
- Published changes aren't showing on your website: use Clear Frontend Cache on the website. If that doesn't help, ask your developer to check the URLs/Publishing settings.
- New components don't appear in the page builder: select Import Elements on the website.