Introducing Pages

Pages add the ability to build, edit, and manage your marketplace’s content pages directly from Console. Content pages like a Landing page or About page can now be modified without developer input. Pages’ deployment workflow lets you create and review content changes in development mode before making them available in your live marketplace.

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What you can do with Pages

Pages lets you create and edit content pages without code in The New Sharetribe. On your marketplace, content pages are pages featuring content created by you, the marketplace operator. Landing pages, “About” pages, FAQs or blog posts are all examples of content pages.

There are various use cases for content pages. The most obvious one is to provide informational content about how your marketplace works to your users. In addition, you might use Pages to create alternative landing pages for various user groups, for search engine optimization (SEO) or paid advertising purposes, or even create a simple blog.

Any New Sharetribe marketplace starts with 4 default pages: the About page, the Landing page, the Privacy policy page, and Terms of use page. Pages lets you edit these default pages, but, with the exception of the About Page, they cannot be removed. In addition to the default pages, you can add and edit any number of custom content pages.

How Pages works

You can use Pages from Console, in "Content -> Pages". You can try it immediately in the New Sharetribe Test environment, or use it to create your content after setting up your own marketplace app. Start editing the default content pages!

Each content page is built using a combination of sections and blocks. Sections define the different content areas and their layout. Blocks contain the information presented in a section. Blocks are made up of multiple different types of content, like texts, Youtube videos or images.

The content you create displays in your marketplace frontend. It is laid out using the default New Sharetribe design. If you want your content to follow a different design, a developer can make the necessary modifications. A future release will also allow developers to add more types of sections and blocks, which will make it possible to create a wider variety of content pages.

While your marketplace is in development, use Pages in the Test environment to build out your content.

When your marketplace is launched and you have a Live environment, continue to use the Test environment to make changes to your published marketplace content and preview how they look in your Test site. When ready, you copy finished changes from your Test environment to your Live environment and live marketplace application.

An example carousel section from the starting Landing page. The default code of the marketplace application renders carousels and all content created using Pages following a standard design. Developers can change this design anytime.

How to get started with Pages

To start, you may want to focus on editing your Landing page. This will be the first page most of your users see, so you want it to look great and clearly articulate your value proposition. Check out our guide on how to edit your landing page to get started .

If you want to create a new page, the tutorial on how to build an FAQ page offers step-by-step instructions to get started.