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Adding new pages

July 13, 2020 at 7:59 pm #3233

[anonymous]

Hello! I’m new in Publii and also in Handlebars js. I’m trying to port a simple html/css/js template into Publii.

I wonder if is possible to render a new page such as an “About” page and adding it to the main menu.

I’ve tried to create an “about.hbs” page adding the content needed but I can’t reach this page from my static website (preview).

Can you give some advices?

July 13, 2020 at 8:16 pm #3234

Bob

Just add a new post and mark it as “hidden” post. If you want to have a unique HTML structure, you can create an additional post template and assign it to a newly created post.

July 13, 2020 at 8:19 pm #3235

[anonymous]

Thank you for reply Bob!

So if I want a different template for that page I have to create a post-TEMPLATE_SLUG.hbs to use with that blog post?

Basically I can’t create a new page such as the frontpage and render it?

July 13, 2020 at 8:25 pm #3236

Bob

[anonymous] wrote:

So if I want a different template for that page I have to create a post-TEMPLATE_SLUG.hbs

yeap, indeed.

[anonymous] wrote:

Basically I can’t create a new page such as the frontpage and render it?

You can create a post-template with a similar structure as the index.hbs file, but just copying the content of the index.hbs won’t help, the post template has its own handlebars tags https://getpublii.com/dev/post-page-tags/

July 13, 2020 at 8:46 pm #3237

[anonymous]

Fine! Thank you very much Bob!