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Navigation and the home page

Updated 2026-08-13

A reader never sees a page on its own. They see your wiki around it: a sidebar, a header and footer, and a home page they probably arrived on. Three separate things, three separate screens.

Three layers, edited on three screens. The page frame wraps every page; the sidebar is your navigation; the page itself is the part that differs. Change the frame once and every page follows.

The sidebar

This is your navigation. It is built from four kinds of item.

The sidebar is a list you build: sections to group things, links to pages, a search box, dividers. Drag them into the order readers should meet them.
SectionA heading that groups what follows.
LinkPoints at one of your pages, or anywhere else.
SearchPuts the search box in the list.
DividerA line for breathing room.
  1. Open the layout editor.
  2. Switch to the sidebar designer.
  3. Add items, drag them into order, and set each label and target.

Keep it short. The sidebar is not an index of everything, it is the half-dozen doors a reader should notice. Deep material is reached from the pages behind those doors, and from search.

The page frame

The frame wraps every page: whatever should be on all of them, top and bottom. Edit it once and every page follows, which is the point and also the thing to be careful with.

It is built with the same blocks as a page, in the same editor, at Manage › the page frame. Somewhere in it goes the block that stands for the page itself; everything around that is the frame.

A single page can step out of the frame from its own settings, for a landing page that wants the whole screen.

The home page

The home page is where / lands. It is edited like any other page, except that it renders seamless: blocks butt against each other with no gap, so a full-width hero can run edge to edge.

If a home page looks tighter than expected, that is why. The fix is a margin on the block, not a setting you have missed.

A home page that works is usually three things: what this wiki is in one line, the few doors that matter, and something that shows the wiki is alive.

Which screen was that again

Something on every pageThe page frame.
A link in the sidebarThe sidebar designer.
The front pageThe home layout.
One pageThat page, in the editor.
Every page from one tableIts shared layout.