Site

The Site screen controls what the site says about itself. These values are live as soon as you save them and become the default for every page.

• Name is used when a page has no title of its own and identifies the site in a shared link.
• Description can appear under the title in search results and link cards.
• Author and X handle credit the site or a shared card.
• Theme colour tells supported mobile browsers which colour to use around the page.
• Sharing picture is the default image for links pasted into messages and social posts. It is cropped to a 1200 by 630 card.

A page can supply its own title, description, or sharing image when it needs to differ. If it does not, the site-wide value is used.

Two checkboxes change how visitors move around the site, and both are off until you tick them. Fade between pages fades each page into the next instead of cutting. Update pages in place keeps a visitor where they were reading when a page reloads itself, after a form’s answer for example, instead of jumping to the top. Your site’s own scripts have to allow for that, so ask your agent before turning it on on a site that has some. Your agent can also set either one differently for a single page.

Select Keep this site out of search engines while a site should not be listed. This applies to every page, even if an individual page has different metadata. Clear it when the site is ready to be found.

Your site serves its own /robots.txt and /sitemap.xml, with nothing for you to write or upload. The sitemap lists every published page and every published row that answers at an address of its own, your blog posts included, once for each language the site speaks and with the date each was last published. That is the address to give Google Search Console, however large the site gets: past a thousand addresses it becomes an index pointing at the rest, which is the same thing to submit. While the box above is ticked, robots.txt asks every crawler to stay away and the sitemap is empty, so the file and the checkbox can never disagree.

Your agent can also keep one page out of search engines while the rest of the site is listed. That page is left out of the sitemap, and so are the rows shown through it. A blog whose page is kept out this way has nothing in its feed either.

Sites with several languages can give each language its own description and keywords. The author, social handle, and theme colour stay shared.

Transfer this site

Transfer site hands the selected site to another organization, a client’s for example. Create transfer link makes a private link for the owner of the organization that should have it. It works once and expires after two days, and Revoke cancels it. They sign in, pick one of the organizations they own, and accept. The site then runs on that organization’s plan, so one whose plan can’t hold it says why instead of letting them pick it. Once it’s accepted, nobody in your organization can open the site any more. Only the owner of the site’s organization can transfer it.

Delete this site

Delete site at the bottom of the screen permanently removes the selected site: its pages, files, tables and their rows, workflows, and any connected domain. Your account, the site’s organization and its members all stay, and the dashboard moves to another site you can reach, or to Organizations when there isn’t one. This cannot be undone.

Only the owner of the site’s organization can delete it. A member sees a line saying so where the button would be.