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title: Managing page types
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-website-content/working-with-pages.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/13/custom-development/working-with-pages-in-the-api.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/13/custom-development/working-with-pages-in-the-api/page-database-structure.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/13/external-utilities/kentico-xperience-import-toolkit.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/13/developing-websites/content-modeling-guide.md
---

> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

Pages in Xperience store the content of website. Each page is of a specific type – a **Page type**.

A page type defines the data structure, functionality and behavior for the given pages. The most important configuration options include:

- Fields (data structure)
- Editing form layout (the interface through which users create and modify the pages)
- Features (determine how the pages are designed, their URLs, etc.)
- [Scope](https://docs.kentico.com/13/developing-websites/defining-website-content-structure/managing-page-types/limiting-the-pages-users-can-create.md) (where and how the pages can be created and used)
- [Various other properties](https://docs.kentico.com/13/developing-websites/defining-website-content-structure/managing-page-types/reference-page-type-properties.md)

![List of page types managed in the Page types application](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/13/managing-page-types/page_types_application.png "List of page types managed in the Page types application")

## Creating custom page types

The system provides a wizard (in the _Page types_ application), which guides you through the creation of new page types. See the following sub-pages for more information:

- **[Standard page types](https://docs.kentico.com/13/developing-websites/defining-website-content-structure/managing-page-types/creating-page-types.md)** – page types that hold structured data in fully customizable fields. Depending on the enabled page type features, the visual design of pages can be fully controlled by the MVC site's developers or driven by the [Page builder](https://docs.kentico.com/13/developing-websites/page-builder-development.md).
- **[Page types without fields](https://docs.kentico.com/13/developing-websites/defining-website-content-structure/managing-page-types/creating-page-types-without-fields.md)** – do not contain any custom fields and are created without a dedicated [database table](https://docs.kentico.com/13/custom-development/working-with-pages-in-the-api/page-database-structure.md). Can be used for various purposes, such as:
  - For pages that are purely driven by the [Page builder](https://docs.kentico.com/13/developing-websites/page-builder-development.md).
  - For "folder pages" that are used to [categorize](https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-website-content/working-with-pages/categorizing-pages.md) other pages in the website content tree.
  - As containers of general objects, such as queries and transformations, which are used in the administration interface or other parts of the system.

## Configuring page types

Page types are fully customizable elements of the system. You can add any number of page types, and modify the properties and configuration of existing ones.

See the following pages for more information:

- [Limiting the pages users can create](https://docs.kentico.com/13/developing-websites/defining-website-content-structure/managing-page-types/limiting-the-pages-users-can-create.md)
- [Reusing existing page content](https://docs.kentico.com/13/developing-websites/defining-website-content-structure/managing-page-types/reusing-existing-page-content.md)
- [Configuring grouped page attachments](https://docs.kentico.com/13/developing-websites/defining-website-content-structure/managing-page-types/configuring-grouped-page-attachments.md)
- [Changing page type icons](https://docs.kentico.com/13/developing-websites/defining-website-content-structure/managing-page-types/changing-page-type-icons.md)
- [Creating alternative forms for page types](https://docs.kentico.com/13/developing-websites/defining-website-content-structure/managing-page-types/creating-alternative-forms-for-page-types.md)
- [Extending the page type listing filter](https://docs.kentico.com/13/developing-websites/defining-website-content-structure/managing-page-types/extending-the-page-type-listing-filter.md)