The Pages left panel provides a compact view of all pages on your site for easier access and better management. You can perform various page-related functions which help organise your site such as add and delete a page, publish and duplicate specific page, create a folder and move page or pages into it, add redirects, etc.
Pages functions
The globe icon allows you to publish each individual page without going to it in the editor. If the globe icon is orange, it shows that the page is not published.
Clicking on the 404 icon will make the selected page your website Page Not Found. This means that when a visitor goes to a non-existing page of your site, they will be redirected to the Page Not Found. Only one page can be set as 404. This can be overruled by setting a redirect.
To better structure your content, you can put each page in a folder. This action will allow you to choose from a list of folders you have previously created and put the selected page in that folder.
If you have a page with structure you very much like, or for any other reason, you can duplicate that page by using this function. A copy of the page will show up in your pages list so that you can re-utilise it in a desired manner.
As suggested, in the tool tip, this action will set the selected page to your site as home page. This will be the first page that loads, when your domain is accessed. Only one page can be selected as such.
You can edit the page settings from the button found on the top menu, but you need to first navigate to the page which settings you want to edit. From the Pages options, you can access each page settings instantly by clicking the Gear icon.
The last options allows you to delete a page from your site. If the page is linked somewhere, e.g. other pages, main navigation menu, etc., you would be prompted to replace those links with the links of an already existing page. You can as well chose the option to remove all links associated with the page that is being deleted.
Folders
Using folders might help you organise your pages into distinct categories based on common subjects or even just for the ease of listing the pages in different collections.
To add a new folder, click on the New Folder button within the Pages tab. Fill out the folder's name and click OK. Now that the folder has been added, you may transfer pages there by either dragging them into the folder, as suggested above, or via the Move page to a folder page option. Moving out a page from a folder can be performed in a similar manner - either drag them to another folder or via the page's option to change folder.
You have the option to change the folder's name or delete a folder. Trying to delete a folder, that has residing pages in it, will trigger a message stating that pages will be transitioned to the root folder and the pages' links would be updated respectively.
Example on the difference in URL of a page located in the root folder of the site and in a created one:
Redirects
The creation of 301 redirects enables you to forward any URL within your domain to a specific page of your site or to an external site. This is especially useful if you have inbound links to a page that no longer exists and you do not want to lose the search engine juice from that link. You can add links to existing page or external url.
To add redirect, select the respective button, available in the Pages tab.
Add the redirect's name at the top and beneath it type the URL of the non-existing page, that you would like to get traffic redirected away from. Next, select the Link Type between Internal and External page and where it should redirect to, via the Link To dropdown/field.
Once a redirect has been created, it will function right away without publishing the change. It will as well overwrite the 404 page, if such has been set.
Existing redirects can be edited or deleted, via the corresponding icons on the respective row.