Creating Folders

When you're ready to build a new page inside Modern Campus CMS, you may have the need to create a new subfolder to house new pages in your site. As with any CMS, folder structure is not only an important part of organizing your site, it also makes up your pages' URL structure. Creating a page within a subfolder adds context for website visitors so they know where they are within your site. There are two types of folder options in the CMS:

  • New Page Section Folder: to build folders that contain new pages and navigation. This folder creates proper navigation files of the folder and pages within and must be chosen if you intend to build pages inside the folder. 
  • New File/Image Folder: for folders that will house images or documents and does not require navigation. This folder will not build navigation files. This type of folder is only allowed within your site's _files folder.

 

Choose the type of folder you wish to build and follow the steps below accordingly.

New Page Section Folder

New page section folders will generate the in-page navigation menu and breadcrumb navigation. For example, if you create a subfolder in your site called “news" then you can create multiple pages under 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 the video below. 

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 your images 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.

 

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

    new file folder step 1 screenshot

  2. A window will appear. From the template options, choose "New File/Image Folder".

    new file/image folder screenshot

  3. A window will appear. Fill out the Folder Name field and click "create".  

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

    name and create new file folder screenshot

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