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Could i get clarification about the Pages Module?

As I understand it:

The Pages module creates:

- A static html page within a weblog
- The page can have any URL it wishes
- The page is created with a defined template - chosen in the module configuration

Ok - I get that.

What I’m not sure about:

(1)The URL: does it remain within the EE folder structure?
e.g http://www.domain.com/eeblog/
or could the URL be defined as being
http://www.domain.com/choose-the-static-page-name.html

(2) I don’t quite understand nested url - is that connected to my question above?

(3) Are static pages included in the EE sitemap?

(4) Can static pages be allocated to categories, be tagged?

Jim

Is that for an installation of “EE Core”? I see you’ve got a license, so I am curious. The Pages module does not come with EE Core.

Now I’m even more confused 😊

I’m just looking at the modules that our developer has installed

Jim

Is that for an installation of “EE Core”? I see you’ve got a license, so I am curious. The Pages module does not come with EE Core.

In that case you’re probably just in the wrong forum: this is EE Core, for the “community support” of our free, unpaid, limited, non-commercial version. I’ll move this thread to Howto for you.

So, let’t take a look at your initial question:

- A static html page within a weblog
- The page can have any URL it wishes
- The page is created with a defined template - chosen in the module configuration

Well, yes and no. It’s not really a static template, it’s still dynamically created by EE, but, yes, you do get to specify the URL.

The URL: does it remain within the EE folder structure?
e.g http://www.domain.com/eeblog/
or could the URL be defined as being
http://www.domain.com/choose-the-static-page-name.html

There really are no folders with EE. Everything below index.php is only virtual:

<a href="http://www.example.com/index.php/foo/bar/splat">http://www.example.com/index.php/foo/bar/splat</a>

There are no directories foo or bar here. Similarly, if you specify a separate URL for your “Pages”, no additional folders will be created.

I don’t quite understand nested url - is that connected to my question above?

It might be. It looks like you or your developer are removing index.php from the url, which a) is not supported (but fine if you can pull it off) and b) makes the concept of EE’s url slightly more difficult to understand.

Are static pages included in the EE sitemap?

Which sitemap are you speaking of? EE Pages are really only entries in a weblog, and as such not very different for all your other entries.

Can static pages be allocated to categories, be tagged?

Since they are just entries, yes, you can do with them pretty much whatever you can do with other entries.

And just to be clear, the Pages Module isn’t required to pull of “static” content.  I’ve written a number of tutorials to show alternate approaches.