Most of your site is built from the Default template, the blank canvas where you stack blocks to make any ordinary page: home, about, services, contact, anything at all. When in doubt, it’s Default.

Every page is set up the same way, under its Settings tab. That’s where you choose the template, give the page its name and URL, and decide whether it appears in navigation. Sitting alongside it, the Fields tab holds any structured inputs a template defines, such as a summary, a date, or an image, kept separate from your block content.

Blogging is three templates that fit together. Blog is the index — it lists your posts with summaries, paging, and a choice of list or card layouts (point it at /news, or wherever your writing lives). Each individual article is a Blog Post, created as a child of that index and carrying its author, date, categories, and image caption. And when you want to feature just one topic, Blog Category lists only the posts in a category you choose. (If you’d rather sprinkle a few recent posts onto your home page instead of sending people to the index, that’s the Blog Posts block — different tool, same content.)

Events mirror the blog almost exactly. Events is the calendar index — a paged list with list or card layouts and the option to hide past or future events. Event is a single entry, with its date and time, presenter, features, categories, and a button link. And Events – Category narrows the list to one kind of event. If you’ve run the blog, you already know how events work.

A few templates exist for one particular purpose rather than general content. Redirect turns a page into a signpost: instead of showing anything, its URL sends visitors straight to a destination you set — handy when content has moved or a menu item should jump elsewhere. Search is the page your site search points at, listing matches with paging and a friendly “nothing found” message (usually just one, at /search).

Two more are switched on only for sites that need them: Submissions displays the entries gathered by Contributor Form blocks so you can review what visitors send in, and the Youth Services pair — a listing plus a single-entry layout — is a purpose-built directory for youth-service records (tracking features like wheelchair access or pet-friendliness as yes/no with notes). Need a template that is not here. We can create one for you.

The Language template marks the home page of a translation. You use it for the root page of each additional language you offer, say a French home or a Latvian home, and then build that language’s pages as children beneath it.

To let visitors move between languages, add the language switcher in your navigation. It shows your other languages (FR, ES, LV and so on).