Creating Folders

Before you build a new page inside Modern Campus CMS, you may have the need to first create a new subfolder to house new pages in your site. Your site's folder structure is not only an important part of organizing your site, it also makes up your pages' URL structure and will directly impact your site navigation operation. Creating a page within a subfolder adds context for website visitors so they know where they are within your site. New sections of your site should only be created when they will contain more than one page.

You might also want to add a new subfolder to organize your document or image files. These organizational folders should only be added to your site's _files folder, because document and image files should not be kept within the page sections of your site.

Follow the tutorial steps on this page for instructions on how to build both types of folders.

New Page Section Folder

Add a New Page Section Folder to build a new section in your site that will contain new pages and a navigation file. This folder will automatically create a proper navigation file for the index page of the folder and you will select which page template to use for the folder's index page.

New File/Image Folder

Within your site's _files folder, add a New File/Image folder to add a new folder to house images or documents. This folder will not have a navigation file or page files. This type of folder is only allowed within your site's _files folder.

New Page Section Folder

New page section folders will generate the in-page navigation menu and breadcrumb navigation information. For example, if you create a subfolder in your site called “news" then you can create multiple pages within that folder which will show up as expandable navigation menu content on pages. For more information about site navigation, check out this guide. 

To learn how to correctly create a new page section folder watch this YouTube tutorial video. 

 

New File/Image Folder

File/Image Folders are intended only to house binary files such as images or documents. Use this type of folder to keep your site organized and to make your images and documents easy to locate. All image and document files need to be stored in your site's _files folder so that they can be excluded from the site map.

Once you have found the location where your new image folder will live within your site's _files folder, select "+ NEW" in the top right of the screen.

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After selecting "+ NEW" a content selection window will appear. From the new content options, choose "New File/Image Folder".

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After selecting "New File/Image Folder" an information window will appear. Fill out the Folder Name field and then select "create".  

Note: All subfolder names must be lowercase with hyphens in place of spaces, and they cannot contain special characters such as (!,%*#).

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Your new File/Image folder will appear and is now ready to receive content.