Manage Page Settings: Name, Slug, and Status

Overview

Every page has a few core settings that control how it's identified and where it lives: its name, its URL slug, and its status. Getting these right keeps your library organized and your published URLs clean. This article covers each setting and the page lifecycle from draft to published to deleted.

Page name

The name is how the page appears in your Pages library. It's for you and your team — clear names make a growing library easy to scan.

1. Open the page, or find it in the library.
2. Edit the name in the page settings (or the top bar).
3. Rename freely at any time — the name doesn't affect the public URL.

URL slug

The slug is the last part of the page's public address. A published page is reachable at a URL based on its slug (for example, /pages/spring-launch).

1. Open the Settings panel for the page.
2. Set the slug using lowercase words separated by hyphens (for example, spring-launch).
3. Keep it short, descriptive, and stable — changing a slug after you've shared the URL will break the old link.

If you publish without setting a slug, StretchPages generates one for you from the page name (or a fallback), so the page always has a valid address.

Status: the page lifecycle

A page moves through a simple lifecycle:

• Draft — the page is private and still in progress. Only your team (with access) can see it in the editor. This is the default for a new page.
• Published — the page is live and reachable at its public URL. Publishing sets the status to Published and finalizes the slug.
• Deleted — the page is removed from your library.

Publish a page

1. Open the page and confirm its name and slug.
2. Click Publish in the top bar.
3. The status becomes Published and the page is live at its URL.
4. You can keep editing and re-publish; the URL stays the same as long as the slug doesn't change.

If you've attached a custom domain to the page, you must verify domain ownership before publishing on that domain — see Publish pages and connect a custom domain.

Delete a page

1. From the library or the page settings, choose Delete.
2. The page is removed from your library and no longer listed.
3. Delete carefully — deletion removes the page from your workspace.

Example: preparing a page to go live

You finish a page named "Spring Launch." In Settings, you set the slug to spring-launch so the URL reads cleanly. You review the page on desktop and mobile, then click Publish. The page goes live at /pages/spring-launch. Two weeks later you archive the campaign by deleting the page.

Tips

• Set the slug before you share the URL. Changing it later breaks existing links and any SEO you've built.
• Use clear, human-readable slugs — pricing, spring-launch, about — not random strings.
• Names are internal, slugs are public. Rename for your team freely; treat slugs as permanent once shared.
• Keep drafts as drafts until they're ready — nothing is public until you publish.
• Double-check before deleting — deletion removes the page from your workspace.

Troubleshooting

My published URL looks messy. You published without a clean slug, so one was auto-generated. Set a tidy slug in Settings and re-publish (before the URL is widely shared).

Changing the slug broke a link. The public URL follows the slug. If you must change it after sharing, update wherever the old URL was posted.

A page disappeared from my library. It may have been deleted. Deleted pages are removed from the listing.

I can't publish. If the page has a custom domain attached, verify domain ownership first. Otherwise confirm you have access to edit the page.

FAQ

Does renaming a page change its URL? No — the public URL is based on the slug, not the name.

What statuses can a page have? Draft (private, in progress) and Published (live). Deleting removes it from your workspace.

Can I unpublish? Take the page out of circulation by removing links to it and deleting it if it's no longer needed; keep working versions as drafts.