Apart from its sections, every page has a handful of settings of its own: what it is called, where it lives, whether it shows the site header and footer, whether it needs a password, and what search engines and social networks see when they find it. All of them are in the Page options panel.
Open the panel
Open the page in the editor and click the Page options gear in the top-right corner of the browser frame, next to Page history. You can also hover a page in the sidebar or on the Pages Dashboard and click Page options. The panel has three tabs: General, Sections and SEO.
General
Status - the switch at the top reads Published or Draft. Draft pages are hidden from visitors. The homepage is always live, so its switch is disabled.
Page name - the name shown in the dashboard, in the browser tab and, by default, in the page heading. Changing it does not change the URL.
URL - the page's address, such as about for yourname.folio.page/about. Lowercase letters, numbers and dashes only. If the address is already taken you get a suggestion you can apply with one click. Remember to update any menu item that points to the old address afterwards.
Homepage - click Set as homepage to make this page your site's front page. See Add and organise pages for what happens to the previous homepage.
Layout - three switches:
- Show header and Show footer hide the site chrome on this page. Handy for a landing page or a links-style page that should stand alone. How the header and footer look is set in the Design editor; see Header, footer and menu styles.
- Show page heading adds a title banner above the page's sections. It is on by default for every page except the homepage, where the hero usually does that job.
Password protection (Pro and Max) - switch on Require a password and enter a Password. Visitors see a lock screen and must type the password before the content appears. It is a shared secret you hand out, not an account login, so pick something you are happy to send to clients. Under Visitor messages you can reword the lock screen's Message, Input placeholder, Button label and Wrong-password message, for example to translate them. Changing the password locks out everyone who unlocked the page with the old one. The dashboard's previews skip the lock screen so you can keep working on the page; a lock icon in the top bar reminds you that visitors will be asked for the password.
Actions - Duplicate creates a draft copy of the page, and Delete removes the page for good after a confirmation. The homepage cannot be deleted.
Sections
A list of the page's sections in order. Hover a row to highlight that section on the page, drag rows by their handle to reorder, or use Duplicate section and Delete section on a row. Each row shows the section's ID, so it is also the quickest way to see which anchors exist on the page.
SEO
SEO title - the title search engines show and browsers put on the tab. Defaults to the page name.
SEO description - the short summary shown under the title in search results. Aim for 150-160 characters.
Social share (OG) image - the preview picture shown when someone shares the page's link on social networks or in messaging apps. Pick one from your media library.
Hide from search engines - asks search engines not to list this page. Anyone with the link can still open it. Use it for client previews or a thank-you page.
Note: Page options are saved as you change them, but like every page edit they reach your live site only after you click Update live site; see Why your changes do not show on the live site yet.
The page heading and section headings
The page heading is the title banner that Show page heading switches on. Its text starts as the page name; click it on the page to change it or add a one-line description, and drag the dashed bands above and below it to adjust its spacing.
A section heading is the optional title block at the top of a single section, switched on from that section's hover toolbar or its Section options.
Both are styled once for the whole site: open the Design editor and choose Page Heading or Section Heading to pick a template and set its sizes, colors and spacing, or to switch on breadcrumbs. See Page and section headings.