Glossary
The words used across the admin, in plain language.
Words you will meet
Project (or website). One website with all its pages, theme, menus, posts and forms. You pick a project at the top of many screens. See Projects and pages.
Page. One address on your site, such as the home page or the contact page. A page is a stack of sections.
Section. A horizontal band of a page: a header, a row of three features, a price table, a footer. You add, move and edit sections in the builder. See The page builder.
Component. A section or block you saved so you can use it again. Change it once and you can update every place it is used.
Library. The shelf of ready-made sections and whole-website templates. See Library.
Collection. A list of things your pages can show, such as products, team members or events. See Collections and content types.
Theme. Your colours, fonts, spacing and corner shapes in one place, so every page looks like the same brand. See Theme.
Draft. Work that only you can see. Saving keeps a draft; visitors see nothing new.
Publish. The step that makes your draft visible to visitors. Until you publish, the live site stays as it was. See Publish.
Unpublish. Takes a page back offline. The page and its history are kept.
Form. A set of questions visitors fill in, such as a contact form. Answers arrive in the form's inbox. See Forms.
Plugin. An extra feature you switch on for a website, such as chat or a shop. See Plugins.
Portal. A website where members sign in and see their own pages and records. See Portal.
Where to go next
How the admin is laid out shows where each of these lives.