If you want to work on a new page for your website without posting it for publication, choose the PAGE app from the dashboard.
1. Select PAGE ADD and give it a name of TEST and Friendly URL of TEST. If you already have a page called test you can reuse that or create another one and name it similar but different, such as test1. For the pathname, if you choose a pathname with leading zz's it will be the last page in your page list and easy to find (ie. zz-test.php). Set the Security Groups to Main-Logged In. this will make it so you can only see the page, if you are logged in and will prevent the search engines from indexing it.
2. PC Content Tab
PC Content: This is where you put the content of your page
Load New Layout: When you click this button you will be offered different page layouts (ie, one column, two column, etc.). Once you select a layout, the PC Content window above will be filled with placeholder text that you can replace with your own content. If your test content is similar to your existing content, you may want to just copy the source code from the existing page into the source code for this new test page and modify from there. See Copying Source Code below.
Template: Click on the blue select a template link. You then choose the name of your Template (in most cases it is the first option) You will then be offered the options customized to your template that you want to apply to this page. If you are making a test copy of an existing page, you will want to choose the same options as set on the existing page. Click done when you are done selecting your options.
3. Copying Source Code
You will want to copy the page source code from one page to another either when you want to start a test page with existing code and/or when you have your updates like you want them and are now ready to move them into production.
On the page you are copying from, click the Source button in the page editing tools. Do a CNTL+A to select all the code in the popup window, then CNTL+C to copy it to the clipboard.
On the page you are copying to on the PC Content Tab, first click save a version. This saves a version of the page as it is before changes so you can go back to it if something goes wrong. If you don't do this, there is no going back. Next, click the Source button in the page editing tools of this page. Do a CNTL+A to select all the code in the popup window, then a CNTL+V to paste the code from the clipboard into the page.
Scroll to the bottom of the page and SAVE.
Go to a browser window and check the page using the friendly URL that you gave the test page.,If the test page is done to satisfaction, copy and paste the code from the test page into the page of your website where you want the content to be, using the Copying Source Code instructions above.
