---
title: "Pages and redirects - Lentil docs"
description: "Add, move and delete pages, change your home page, pick a 404 page, and send old addresses to new ones with redirects so no link breaks."
url: https://uselentil.com/docs/pages
updated: 2026-11-13
site: "Lentil"
---

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### Docs menuPages and redirects

# Pages and redirects

See every page of your site, add new ones, organize them under sections, choose your home page, take pages down, and send visitors from old addresses to new ones so no link breaks.

## Your pages

Open **Pages** in the sidebar of your site. Three buttons at the top switch the view: **Cards** (a thumbnail of each page), **List** (a table) and **Canvas** (a zoomable map of all pages, see [Design canvases](https://uselentil.com/docs/canvases)).

- Each page shows its title, its address (for example `/about`) and a status: **Draft** (never published), **Published**, **Unpublished changes** (live, with edits waiting) or **Unpublished** (taken offline by hand).
- Small chips mark the **Home** page, a page that becomes the home page when published (**Home after publish**) and the page used for missing addresses.
- Filter by **All**, **Published** or **Draft**, each with a count, or type in **Search pages** to find a title or address.
- Pages under another page are its subpages. In the list, press the arrow beside a page to show or hide its subpages. In the cards, press a page that has subpages to open its section.

Above the pages, a status card tells you where the site stands, for example **Everything is live** or **3 changes are waiting to be published**, with a **Review changes** button. See [Publishing](https://uselentil.com/docs/publishing).

![The Pages screen in List view: 3 changes are waiting to be published, then Home, About us and Contact Published, Gift cards Draft, Menu with Unpublished changes and its subpage Cakes Draft, each with Edit and Subpage.](https://uselentil.com/api/media/354058c7-fe26-4751-8978-dc5e92213181/docs-pages-list.webp)

Pages, with their status. Shown with sample data.

## Add a page

1. On **Pages**, press **New page**. (On a page's row or card, **Subpage** adds a page under it.)
2. Type a **Title**, for example **About us**.
3. Under **Parent page**, keep **Top level**, or pick a page to create a subpage under it.
4. Check the **Path**. It fills in from the title (**About us** becomes `/about-us`); change it if you like.
5. Press **Create page**. The new page opens in the editor as a draft. Nothing is public until you publish.

The first page of a new site is the home page and has the path `/`.

### Rules for addresses

- An address is lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens, with slashes between levels, like `/menu/cakes`. Each part can be up to 60 characters and an address can go up to 5 levels deep.
- Two pages cannot share an address. If the one you typed is taken, the box says **Another page already uses this path.** When the address is made from the title, Lentil adds `-2`, `-3` and so on for you.
- A few addresses belong to the platform, for example `/cart`, `/checkout` and `/account`, and cannot be used for pages.
- A page title can be up to 120 characters.

Ask your assistant

```
Add a new page called "Gift cards" at /gift-cards on my Lentil site. Write it from our business profile: how gift cards work, how to buy one by phone, and a call button. Leave it as a draft and send me the editor link.
```

Uses `list_pages`, `create_page`, `get_business_profile`. [Connect an assistant](https://uselentil.com/docs/ai-assistants)

## Move pages

Moving a page puts it under another page, or back at the top level. The page keeps the last part of its address and its subpages go with it, so `/cakes` moved under **Menu** becomes `/menu/cakes`.

1. Tick the boxes next to one or more pages. A bar appears with **Publish**, **Unpublish**, **Move** and **Delete**.
2. Press **Move**.
3. Under **Move to**, choose **Top level** or a page. The box lists each old address with an arrow to its new one.
4. Press **Move pages**.

A page that is already live moves right away, and its old address redirects to the new one so links and search results keep working. A draft just changes address. Older redirects that pointed to the moved page are updated to follow it.

Some things cannot move: the home page, and a page into itself or its own subpages. A move that would collide with an existing address, or go deeper than 5 levels, is refused and nothing is changed.

## Change the home page

The home page is the page at `/`. To make a different page the home page:

1. On **Pages**, open the menu on the page (**More actions**) and choose **Set as home page**. You can also press **Set as home page** in the editor's **Page** panel, or on a selected page in the **Canvas** view.
2. Read **Set as home page?**. It lists the exact changes, for example `/about → /` for the new home page and `/ → /old-home` for the current one.
3. Press the button to confirm. The page now shows **Home after publish**.
4. Publish the page (or press **Publish site**). Only then do the addresses change.

Until you publish, your live home page stays exactly as it is. When you publish, the old home page is kept, not deleted: it moves to `/old-home` (or `/old-home-2` if that is taken). Old links to the new home page's former address open the home page, and subpages keep their addresses.

Changed your mind? Choose **Cancel home page change** from the same menu. Nothing changes. While a change is waiting, the two pages involved cannot be moved or deleted, and no other page can take the address the old home page is going to.

## Page settings and the not found page

A page's title and its search and sharing settings are in the editor's **Page** panel (see [The page editor](https://uselentil.com/docs/editor) and [SEO and AI visibility](https://uselentil.com/docs/seo)).

To choose which page visitors see when they open an address that does not exist, open the page's **More actions** menu and choose **Use as 404 page**. The same menu says **Stop using as 404 page** to go back to the default. A page used this way is hidden from search engines and left out of the sitemap, and it stops being the 404 page if you make it the home page.

## Take a page down or delete it

- **Unpublish** takes a page off the live site but keeps the page, its draft and its history. Use **Unpublish page** in the editor's **More page actions** menu, or tick pages and press **Unpublish**. The page then shows **Unpublished**, and **Publish site** will not put it back on its own; publish it again when you want it live.
- **Delete** removes the page for good, with all its versions. Open the page's menu and choose **Delete**, or tick pages and press **Delete**.

### Delete one page

1. Choose **Delete**. The box asks **Delete "Page name"?**. If the page is live it says the address will come off the live site.
2. Read what links to the page. The box lists places, such as your header, footer, other pages and redirects, where a link will be left behind.
3. Under **Send visitors to**, pick a page to redirect the old address to. Leave it on **No redirect (visitors see the not found page)** if you prefer.
4. Press **Delete page**.

Subpages of the deleted page are not deleted, unpublished or moved: they stay at their own addresses. If the page was your 404 page, the default one comes back.

### Delete several pages

Tick the pages and press **Delete** in the bar. The box lists the pages that will go; the home page, and pages you cannot take down, are left out. Under **Send visitors to**, pick one page to redirect every old address to, or leave it on **No redirect (visitors see the not found page)**. If some of the pages already have a redirect from their address, the box names them: those redirects are kept when you pick no page, and replaced when you pick one. Press **Delete pages**. Pages are deleted one at a time; if one fails, the ones before it are already gone, with their redirects.

Deleting cannot be undoneNeither the page nor its history can be brought back. If you might want it again, unpublish it instead.

## Redirects

A redirect sends anyone who opens an old address to a new one. Use them when a page moves or is deleted, or to keep addresses from a previous website working. Open **Redirects** in the sidebar of your site (under **Site**).

### Add a redirect

1. Press **Add redirect** (or **Add your first redirect** on an empty list).
2. In **Old address**, type the address people use now, starting with a slash, for example `/old-menu`.
3. In **New address**, type a path on your site, like `/menu`, or another website's address starting with `https://`. Under **Your pages**, press a page's path to fill it in.
4. Choose the **Redirect type**: **Permanent** (301) when the page moved for good, so search engines move its ranking to the new address, or **Temporary** (302) for a short campaign or while a page is rebuilt.
5. Press **Add redirect**. A message says **Redirect saved. Changes go live within about a minute.**

The list shows **Old address**, **New address**, and **Type**. Use the filter chips and **Search redirects** to find one. The pencil on a row edits it, and the bin deletes it after you confirm **Delete redirect?**. Redirects need no publishing: they take effect on their own.

Changing a redirect's **Old address** moves it in one step. If another redirect already uses that old address, the save is refused and nothing changes.

![The Add redirect dialog: old address /breads, new address /menu chosen from Your pages, and Permanent (301) selected over Temporary (302).](https://uselentil.com/api/media/10b0b2eb-6740-4eed-bb67-0fc0220ca6af/docs-pages-redirects.webp)

Adding a redirect. Shown with sample data.

### Redirects that Lentil adds for you

- Moving a live page adds a redirect from its old address.
- Deleting one or several pages with **Send visitors to** chosen adds one from each deleted address.
- Changing the home page redirects the new home page's old address to `/`.

Ask your assistant

```
Our old website used /cakes.html and /about-us.html. Show me my current Lentil redirects, then add permanent redirects from those two addresses to /menu/cakes and /about. Tell me if any of them would never run.
```

Uses `list_redirects`, `set_redirects`. [Connect an assistant](https://uselentil.com/docs/ai-assistants)

## Who can use it

- Owners, admins, members and clients can add, move and edit pages and set the home page. See [Team and roles](https://uselentil.com/docs/team).
- Publishing, unpublishing and deleting or moving a page that is live need the publish permission, which all four roles have. Deleting a draft only needs the edit permission.
- Choosing the 404 page, adding a redirect while deleting a page, and the whole **Redirects** screen need the permission to change site settings, which all four roles have.
- Everything here works on the Free and Pro plans. The Free plan limits how many pages a site can have, and a new page that would go over the limit is refused with a message that says so. See [Plans, billing and credits](https://uselentil.com/docs/billing).

## Limits and edge cases

- You cannot delete or unpublish the home page while other pages are live: unpublish them first. The home page can never be deleted or moved; make another page the home page instead.
- Other pages can only go live while the home page is live. Publishing a page before the home page says **Publish the home page first**.
- A page's address can be at most 5 levels deep, and each level at most 60 characters.
- A redirect's old address must start with one slash and have no `#` part (browsers never send it).
- A redirect cannot point to its own old address, and one that would send visitors in a circle is refused. A redirect that points to another redirect shows where visitors end up. A loop shows **Loops back - visitors can't reach a page**.
- A redirect from an address where a published page lives never runs, and the row says **Off while a page is published here**. Unpublish or move the page to let it run.
- If your site has other languages, redirects apply to them too: with Spanish on, `/es/old-page` goes to `/es/new-page` without a separate redirect.
- Redirects reach visitors within about a minute.
- While a website is being moved to Lentil, pages cannot be moved, deleted or have their home page changed until it finishes.

## From an AI assistant

An assistant connected to Lentil can manage your pages with your rights. See [AI assistants](https://uselentil.com/docs/ai-assistants).

- `list_pages` shows every page with its address, publish state and the pending home page change. `create_page` adds a draft page. `update_page_settings` changes a title or SEO fields.
- `move_pages` moves pages under a parent (or to the top level) and adds the redirects for live pages.
- `set_home_page` without `confirmed: true` only shows the exact address changes. The assistant must show them to you and, after you agree, call it again with `confirmed: true` and those `expectedPaths`. `cancel_home_page_change` cancels it. The change takes effect when the page is published (`publish_page`).
- `delete_page` without `confirmed: true` only previews what would go and what links to the page. It deletes only after you agree. It takes an optional `redirectTo`. `unpublish_page` takes a page offline.
- `list_redirects` shows redirects with where each ends up, loops and the ones that never fire. `set_redirects` adds or updates up to 100 per call, and `delete_redirects` removes them. Redirects go live without publishing, so a good assistant confirms with you first.
- To change a redirect's old address, `set_redirects` takes `replaces` with its current old address on a single redirect. The move happens in one step and is refused when another redirect already has the new old address. `replaces` works on one redirect per call.

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Updated 9 November 2026