Pages and Menus
Your OTT platform is made of pages, such as Home, Movies or Sports. Each page is filled with widgets: rows of shows, live channels or events, banners and text. Menus link to your pages.
Go to your platform in the left menu and select Pages.
Pages
Create a page
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Click Add Page.
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Fill in the page details:
Field Description Title The page title. Slug The URL-friendly name of the page. Use only lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens. Your first page is the home page, and its slug is always home.Description A description of the page, used for search engines. Keywords Comma-separated keywords, used for search engines. Status Active pages are visible on your platform. -
Click Create Page.
Manage pages
The Pages list shows each page's title, slug and status. On each row:
- Manage Content: add and arrange the widgets of the page. See Page content.
- In the ⋮ menu: Edit the page details, Deactivate or Activate the page, or Delete it. Only empty pages can be deleted.
Clear the cache
Your platform caches pages so they load fast. If a change doesn't appear on your platform right away, click Clear Cache on the Pages list.
Page content
Click Manage Content on a page to open its widgets. Widgets are shown on the page in the order of the list. Use the Move Up and Move Down arrows to reorder them.
Under Add Widget, choose the type of widget to add:
| Widget | What it shows |
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| Show Widget | A row of shows. |
| Live Widget | A row of live channels. |
| Event Widget | A row of live events. |
| Banner | A clickable image. |
| Text Widget | Text formatted with Markdown. |
Show, Live and Event widgets
For each widget, set:
- Widget Title: the title shown above the row.
- Content: what the row contains.
- Custom: you choose the items. Click Add Content and select the shows, live channels or events.
- For shows, you can also choose an automatic list: Ranking Movies, Ranking Series, Continue Watching (what each customer started watching) or My List (each customer's saved shows).
- Template: how the row looks: Featured Carousel, Posters Carousel, Landscape Carousel or Ranking Carousel, depending on the content.
- Audience: who sees the widget: All customers, Only registered or Only non registered.
When you add an event, you can set its title, artwork (JPEG or PNG), and start and end dates for this widget.
Banner widgets
Upload a Landscape Banner (16:9, recommended 3840×2160 px, maximum 2 MB) and a Portrait Banner (2:3, recommended 1080×1620 px, maximum 2 MB), in JPEG or PNG. In Banner Settings, set the URL the banner links to and the Target: Same Window or New Window.
Text widgets
Write the text in Markdown, or use the toolbar to add headings, bold, italic, lists and links. Changes are saved automatically.
Menus
Click Manage Menus on the Pages list. Choose Main Menu or Footer Menu at the top to see its items.
Add a menu item
- Click Add Menu Item.
- In Select Page, choose one of your pages, or External page to link to another website. For an external page, enter the Name and the URL.
- Optionally, upload a Menu icon for the mobile apps, in SVG format.
- Click Add Menu Item.
Use the Move Up and Move Down arrows to reorder the items. From the ⋮ menu you can Edit, Deactivate, Activate or Delete an item.