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I just found out that Core isnt supported when it comes ot the pages module.. What exactly am I missing? Is it just for creating new pages dynamically? I don’t understand it 2 much by reading the description

Don’t be misled by the name - the Pages module is certainly not required to create pages dynamically.  I’ve a number of tutorials showing how.

The main benefit of the Pages module is to subvert the template group / template structure of EE URLs and create your own URLS, and being able to re-use one template as an “output funnel” from multiple weblogs.

For example - I just implemented it to allow clients to create one-off marketing pages or campaign landing pages where they wanted to designate what the URL would be.

It does, however, require content admins to understand they need to assign a URL, and it also exposes all your templates in a drop-down that content admins need to choose from as to assign that output funnel.  Bottom line - your admins need to be smarter than the average bear.

Don’t be misled by the name - the Pages module is certainly not required to create pages dynamically.  I’ve a number of tutorials showing how.

The main benefit of the Pages module is to subvert the template group / template structure of EE URLs and create your own URLS, and being able to re-use one template as an “output funnel” from multiple weblogs.

For example - I just implemented it to allow clients to create one-off marketing pages or campaign landing pages where they wanted to designate what the URL would be.

It does, however, require content admins to understand they need to assign a URL, and it also exposes all your templates in a drop-down that content admins need to choose from as to assign that output funnel.  Bottom line - your admins need to be smarter than the average bear.

so the pages module can change site.com/index.php?site/contact to site.com/contact or is that somethin else? and thanks for the help.. train-ee.com has been pretty helpful.. especially the church site tutorial

The Pages module doesn’t remove index.php - that still needs to be done at the .htaccess level.  But yes - past that if your output template was stored in the /site/ group you could use the Pages module to drop it from the URL.

Or - if you removed index.php - you could create a /contact/ template group and use the index template in that group for the same result. 

Contact pages are typically unique with having a form/fields so that’s probably not the best example.  The Pages module works better with content that doesn’t have a rigid structure - because you’ll want to have one general template that will work no matter what you entry you point at it using the Pages module options.