Adding your own pages

Beyond the sections Psalmly builds for you automatically (see Your public page), you can add your own pages to your church's public website — anything the fixed sections don't cover. A Mothers Day Out daycare page with a pricing table, a recovery ministry, a "rent our hall" page, a guide to a special program: all live as their own page on your public site. You'll find Pages in the admin sidebar.

Designed blocks, not a blank canvas

Custom pages follow the same idea as the rest of Psalmly: you supply the content, and Psalmly owns the design. You won't pick fonts, choose colors, or drag boxes around. Instead you build a page from a small set of pre-designed blocks, and Psalmly styles them to match your site — same theme, same accent color, same look as your other pages. The upside is that your custom pages always look polished and on-brand without any design work, and they can never end up looking out of place.

Creating a page

On the Pages screen, click New page. The editor is a split screen: you build on the left, and on the right a live preview shows exactly what a visitor will see, updating as you type.

Start at the top with the page's header:

• Page title — the big heading at the top of the page (e.g. Grace Daycare).
• Menu label — the short name that appears in your website's menu (e.g. Daycare). It starts from your title; shorten it if you like.
• Lives under — whether this is a top-level menu item or a sub-page of another page. See below.
• Web address — where the page lives, e.g. yourhandle.psalmly.app/grace-daycare. Psalmly fills this in from your title and checks as you type that it's Available (not already used and not a reserved word like events or about). You can edit it, but once a page is published, changing its address means old links stop working — so change it early.
• Intro line — an optional one-line intro shown under the title.
• Icon and Search description — a small icon for your menu, and a one-sentence summary for search engines.

Sub-pages

Some things are really a section of your site rather than a single page. A Ministries section with a page for each ministry; a daycare with a separate tuition page and a staff page. For those, put pages underneath another page.

There are two ways to do it:

• On the Pages list, a page with room underneath it shows Add sub-page — that's the quickest way, and the new page opens already filed in the right place.
• In the editor, set Lives under to the page it belongs to. Use this to move a page you've already made.

A sub-page's web address includes its parent, so Asbury Library under Adult Ministries lives at yourhandle.psalmly.app/adult-ministries/asbury-library. The address in the editor updates as soon as you change Lives under, so you can see exactly where the page will sit.

Pages go one level deep. A sub-page can't have sub-pages of its own — that keeps your menu readable and your addresses short. If a page already has sub-pages under it, Lives under is locked until you move or delete them.

What visitors see

Sub-pages do a few things automatically, with nothing for you to set up:

• The parent page becomes a dropdown in your menu, listing Overview (the parent's own page) and each sub-page beneath it.
• Every page in the section shows a small row of links to its sibling pages, so a visitor can move between them without going back.
• Sub-pages show a trail at the top — Your church › Adult Ministries › Asbury Library — so people always know where they are.

A sub-page is only visible if its parent is published. If you set a parent back to Draft, its whole section disappears from your site — sub-pages included, even published ones. The Pages list flags this so it's never a surprise.

The building blocks

Under Sections, click Add section and pick a block. You can add up to 12 blocks per page, reorder them (the up/down arrows), collapse them while you work, and remove any you don't need. The blocks are:

• Text — paragraphs, lists, bold, and links. Use it for prose: telling the story, explaining a program, a warm welcome.
• Photo — a picture you upload. Put it first on the page and it becomes the page's header image. A page can hold up to 6 photos in total.
• Heading — a titled break between sections, with an optional kicker and intro line. Use it to organize a longer page.
• Table — a tidy grid. Use it for pricing, schedules, or simple comparisons (e.g. Infants — $200/week). Add up to 6 columns and 20 rows.
• Cards — a row of up to 8 short titled cards, each with an icon. Use it for a list of features, amenities, programs, or age groups (e.g. Playground · Swimming pool · Reading lessons). Each card can optionally link somewhere — another page on your site, or an outside website.
• FAQ — up to 10 questions and answers. Visitors tap a question to open its answer. Perfect for "I'm new here" pages: What do I wear? Where do I park? What about my kids?
• Files — up to 6 documents people can open or download: a brochure, a sign-up form, a policy sheet, a schedule. Accepts PDF, Word and Excel files up to 5 MB each. Drag a file onto the box or click to choose one.
• Form — a published form embedded right in the page, so visitors can sign up, register, or send a request without leaving. Build the form under Forms first, then point the block at it; if you unpublish the form it comes off every page it's on at once. You can give it a different heading here if the form's own name doesn't fit the page.
• Button — a colored box with a heading and one button. Point it at your contact form, your giving page (when online giving is set up), or any link.
• In this section — a set of cards linking to this page's sub-pages. It fills itself in and keeps itself current: add, rename, reorder or unpublish a sub-page and the cards follow. There's nothing to type. It only appears on a page that has sub-pages.

If you'd rather not start from scratch, Psalmly can draft the whole page from a description — see Drafting a page with AI.

A note on files

Files you add here are public — anyone with the link can open them, which is exactly what you want for a brochure or a sign-up form. Your church's private records (bylaws, insurance certificates, board minutes) belong in Documents instead, where only your admins can reach them. See Your document vault.

Publishing it

Like the rest of your public page, a new page starts as a Draft — only you can see it (in the preview). Flip the Draft / Published switch in the top-right and click Save changes to put it live. Until it's published, visitors can't reach it and it won't appear in your menu. Switch it back to Draft any time to take it down without deleting it.

Where your pages appear

A published top-level page joins your website's top navigation, alongside About, Visit, and the rest. The order is up to you: drag pages on the Pages list to arrange them, and the menu follows. Once your menu is full, the extra pages tuck neatly into a "More" dropdown so your nav never gets crowded. Sub-pages don't take a menu slot of their own — they live in their parent's dropdown.

The Menu preview at the top of the Pages list shows your menu exactly as visitors will see it, including what's inside More.

Editing, duplicating, and removing

From the Pages list you can Edit a page, Duplicate one to reuse its layout as a starting point, or Delete one (Psalmly asks first, since it's permanent). Drafts and published pages both live here, each with its status and web address, with sub-pages nested under their parent.

Deleting a page deletes its sub-pages too. Psalmly names every page it's about to remove in the confirmation, so you can see exactly what you'd lose.

How many pages you can add

Your plan sets how many menu items you get — that's top-level pages, the ones visitors see in your menu:

• Free — 1 menu item
• Community — 3 menu items
• Growth — 10 menu items

Sub-pages don't count toward that. Each menu item can hold up to 10 sub-pages, so even one menu item can carry a whole section of your site.

The Pages screen shows how many menu items you've used and your total page count. When you reach your limit, New page is disabled and Psalmly points you to upgrading — you can still add sub-pages under the pages you already have, and your existing pages keep working either way.