There are two basic states for a page to be in, "Published" which is available to the public and "unpublished" which is a private draft.

To adjust the states of your document, down at the bottom of the edit form there is a tabbed interface and an option for publishing options. Here, there's a check box for published or unpublished. Two other options are typically visible and available under publishing options "promoted to front page" and "sticky at the top of the list". While these have no effect on basic pages, they are used for some other content types in different ways and will be explained in the context they are used in later videos.

The scheduling tab will allow you to choose a time to publish unpublished content or unpublish published content automatically.

By default your page is given a system address of slash node slash an id number. This is the id number of content in the database. There are two ways to give your content a more friendly address. The first is to add the page to the website menu.

To add your page to the menu, click menu settings in the tab section at the bottom of the edit form. Then check the box to provide a menu link. This will provide a few fields to manage how your page is represented on the menu. The first is menu link title, this will be by default set to the same title as your page, but this is only a default and you can set the menu link title to anything you would like. This is used for the text for the link within your menu but then also is the text for the url of the page. You should avoid any punctuation in this field and keep it fairly short. You will want to create shorter versions of long titled pages so that they don't appear awkward on the menu system. The parent item identifies the parent for the menu link. By default this is set as "Main Menu" Leaving this set as main menu will create an additional top level tab on your website. Clicking this drop down will expose a link tree representation of the menu on your site. Choosing a parent will nest your menu link under it. This will do a few things once you save. The url of the page will update based on the title of the menu link and its location in the menu. In this case I nested this page under animals and so the url is animals slash plant-based meat products. A context menu will appear on the side and breadcrumbs will also appear across the top of the page. The page also now appears in its appropriate location in the drop down menu from the tabs at the top of the website.

Alternatively if you're not on an extension county website, whether you have chosen to put your page on the menu or not you will have an option to set that that url manually by clicking url path settings. You can disable the automatic address and add your own. This custom address should have no spaces or punctuation with the exception of hyphens.

Editors of OSU Extension County websites will need to stick to the first option for urls. Additionally while the website software will allow extension county offices to create top level tabs, OSU Extension wants all of the tabs on county offices to have a consistent menu. If you are editing a county level website you should always nest your page under an existing page or program page. The county websites will not allow users to create custom url path aliases to create page addresses for your pages you should be adding them to the menu.