How do I write guide pages for customers on my wardrobe configurator site?
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Closetforge is a white-label 3D wardrobe configurator and quoting tool for fitted-wardrobe makers. Besides the configurator and your designs, your site can carry longer pages that you write yourself: guides. This page explains how to write one, how its address works and what it does for search.
What a guide page is
Open Guides (/admin/pages) and press New page. A page has a Kind:
- Guide: an article a customer reads before asking for a quote, such as why you fit soft-close hinges or how to measure an alcove.
- Local: a page about the area you cover.
- About: a page about your workshop.
Published pages appear on your site under /nasveti, each at its own address, and a strip of them appears on your home page.
Nobody writes these pages for you, and none are put on your site for you. A workshop that already has its own website with its own articles can leave this empty. While you have no published pages, the /nasveti section stays out of search engines and nothing of it is shown on your home page.
Writing the page
The editor has these parts:
- Title: the heading on the page and the link text everywhere else.
- Summary: one or two sentences, shown on the card and used as the search description when you set none.
- Header image: optional. Pick one from your Image library (
/admin/media) or upload a new one. - Body, written in Markdown:
**bold**,## heading,- listand[link](https://…). A Preview shows how it will look. Images are inserted from the library, with a description for people who cannot see them. - Frequently asked: questions and answers shown at the foot of the page.
- Featured designs: a few of your published designs, shown as cards at the foot of the page, so a reader can go straight into the configurator.
- Search engines: a search title and description. Leave them empty and the title and summary are used.
Two safety rules apply to everything you write. HTML typed into the body is shown as plain text, never run. A link that would run code instead of opening a page is removed.
Press Save as often as you like; the page stays a Draft that only you can see until you press Publish. Unpublish takes it down again.
Addresses and renames
Web address is the last part of the page's address: lower-case words joined by hyphens, such as soft-close-hinges. It must be unique among your pages in that language, and a few addresses are reserved.
You can change it after publishing. The old address keeps working and forwards permanently to the new one, so links that customers, other sites and search results already hold are not broken. Deleting a page is different: old links to it stop working, so unpublish it instead if you might want it back.
Translations
A page is one page with a version per language. In the editor, Add translation creates the page in another language you sell in. Each translation starts as a draft with its own address and is published on its own, so your Slovenian page can be live while the English one is still being written.
What guides do for search
A guide gives a search engine something specific to find: your own words on a question your customers ask, on your own address. For each published page, your site does the rest by itself:
- it is listed in your sitemap, so search engines find it;
- it is described to them as an article, and its questions as an FAQ;
- its translations are linked to each other, so the right language is offered to the right searcher.
None of this guarantees a position in search results. Pages about your own work, your materials and the area you cover are the ones that tend to earn it, because nobody else can write them.