# Pages > Create and edit pages - slugs and 301 prompts, drafts and scheduling, password protection, internal links, and the content/SEO analysis panel. Pages are the core of every client site. Each page has a title, a slug, and a content tree you lay out in the [visual builder](/docs/help/builder-basics), plus SEO and publishing controls in the page editor. One rule to internalize before anything else: **publishing a page does not change the live site.** Publish updates the page's status in the CMS; the static site is only rebuilt when you press **Deploy**. See [Preview, Publish, and Deploy](/docs/help/preview-publish). --- ## The Pages List **Pages** in a site's sidebar lists every page with its status (draft or published) and last-updated time. From here you can: - **Create** a new page - **Edit** a page (opens the page editor) - Use the row actions menu to **Duplicate** or **Delete** a page (duplicates land as drafts) - Jump into the **builder** to edit the layout --- ## Creating a Page 1. Open **Pages** and click the new-page button 2. Enter a **Title** - the slug is generated from it automatically 3. Save. The page starts as a **draft** 4. Click **Edit Layout** to open the visual builder and build the content ### Slugs The slug is the page's URL path. It auto-fills from the title but stays editable in the sidebar. - Slugs are unique **per site**, so two different client sites can both have an `about` page. - Which page serves at the site root is chosen by the **Home Page** selector in the [Technical tab](/docs/help/technical), not by a magic slug. ### Changing a Published Slug Renaming a published page's slug changes its URL, which breaks inbound links unless you redirect. After a slug change the editor shows a dismissible prompt offering to create a **301 redirect** from the old URL to the new one. Accept it unless you have a specific reason not to. Redirects ship with the next deploy. If the renamed page was the home page, the home-page setting follows the rename automatically. --- ## The Page Editor Opening a page shows the editor: the main **Page Content** card (with the **Edit Layout** button into the builder) and tabbed cards for **SEO**, **Social**, **Schema**, **Content**, and **Linking**, plus sidebar controls. ### Sidebar Controls | Control | What it does | |---------|-------------| | **Status** | Draft or Published | | **Slug** | The URL path (see above) | | **Featured Image** | The page's representative image, picked from the media library. Used as the SERP thumbnail and social fallback | | **Schedule Publish** | Publish automatically at a future date and time | | **Page Password** | Password-protect the page. Leave empty for public access | | **Cornerstone** | Marks the page as pillar content you want to funnel internal links toward | ### Drafts, Publishing, and Scheduling - A **draft** is only visible in the CMS and the builder preview - never on the live site. - **Publishing** marks the page ready for the live site. It still requires a **Deploy** to appear. - **Scheduled publish** flips the page to published at the chosen time. The flip is automatic, but the deploy is not: schedule the content, then deploy after the scheduled time (or as part of your next planned deploy) for it to go live. ### Password Protection Setting a **Page Password** gates the page behind a password prompt. The protected content is encrypted in the published output, not just hidden, so the static file does not leak the body. --- ## Internal Links When a button or link in the builder points at another page, use the **internal page picker** rather than typing the URL. Picked links store a stable reference to the target page, so they keep working even if that page's slug is later renamed - the rendered link always resolves to the current URL. The editor's **Linking** tab helps you build internal-link coverage: it surfaces the site's other pages (cornerstone pages first) as link candidates. --- ## Content / SEO Analysis The **Content / SEO analysis** panel scores the page against the **Focus Keyword** you set in the SEO tab: - keyword presence in the title, H1, meta description, slug, and body - readability scoring of the body copy - meta title and description length checks with character counters - a live **SERP preview** (how the result looks in Google) and a social-card preview - a **headings outline** showing the page's H1-H6 structure at a glance Treat it as a checklist, not a law: fix the red items, consider the yellows, and keep the copy written for humans. Per-page SEO fields themselves are covered in [Page SEO](/docs/help/page-seo). --- ## Summary | Task | Where | |------|-------| | Create / duplicate / delete a page | Pages list | | Build the layout | Edit Layout button, opens the visual builder | | Change the URL | Slug field (+ accept the 301 prompt if published) | | Publish later | Schedule Publish (deploy afterward) | | Protect a page | Page Password | | Optimize for search | SEO tab + Content / SEO analysis panel | | Make it live | **Deploy** - publishing alone never touches the live site | --- Source: https://seedlysites.com/docs/help/pages