Pages

Unsurprisingly, pages are edited from the Pages tag in the Radiant administrative user interface. Pages can be added in a hierarchy which makes the initial management page a bit more complicated than for layouts or snippets, but the tree view is pretty self-explanatory and the add/edit/remove facilities all work in the way you would expect.

The very first page you add is implicitly your site’s Home page. Once added, all subsequent pages added will be children of this one. Every page has a title, which is free text and is the sort of thing you would want to see appearing in containers, page headings and so-on (assuming you actually make use of the title attribute somewhere). As with snippets, body text for the page can be filtered using Textile or Markdown using the menu above the main text area. Underneath that are several menus. First, you can choose the layout to use with the Layout menu. You can inherit the layout from a parent page, or explicitly select a layout from the list. If the root page for the site is set at “inherit” then no layout will be used – in this way you could use Radiant as a very simple content management system and ignore layouts or snippets altogether, writing all of the HTML for every page, though this is definitely not recommended!

Note that children are listed in alphabetical order, not order of addition.