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title: Creating new documents and pages
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k8/managing-website-content/configuring-the-environment-for-content-editors/enabling-on-site-editing.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k8/developing-websites/developing-websites-using-the-portal-engine/creating-portal-engine-page-templates.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).

Whether you want to create a new document or a new page depends on how you intend to use it.

- [Create a new document](#creating-new-documents) if you need to present structured and typed information that can then be displayed on pages.\
  A typical use for structured documents is when you need to display lists of items, such as news, products and others.
- [Create new pages](#creating-new-pages) to display information in a unstructured, editable regions. By default, pages work as menu items on your site as well.

## Creating new documents

You can create new documents:

- [In the Pages application](#creating-new-documents-in-the-pages-application)
- [On Live site (Using On-Site editing)](#creating-new-documents-on-the-live-site)

### Creating new documents in the Pages application

1. Open the **Pages** application.
2. In Content tree, click on the item under which the new page should be placed.
3. Click **New** ().
4. Choose the type of document that you want to create. An editing form for the type of document that you chose opens.

   > **Note:** The types of documents that you can create vary depending on how your administrator configured the system. For example, you may only be able to create a **News** document under the news section of your site. If you are allowed to create a single type of document only, then you are redirected directly to the document's editing form (step 6).

   ![Creating a document in the user interface](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/creating-new-documents-and-pages/creating_document_in_interface.png "Creating a document in the user interface")
5. Fill in the editing form.

   ![Filling in document details](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/creating-new-documents-and-pages/creating_document_in_interface2.png "Filling in document details")
6. Click **Save** to confirm, or **Save and create another** to confirm and start creating a new document.

You have created a new document. You can now [edit ](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/managing-website-content/working-with-documents-and-pages/editing-documents-and-pages.md)the document.

### Creating new documents on the Live site

To be able to create documents on the Live site, your administrator needs to enable On-site editing on the site.

1. Log on to the Live site.
2. Click on the **Edit page** button in the top left corner.

   ![Editing a page on the live site](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/creating-new-documents-and-pages/edit_page_onsite.png "Editing a page on the live site")
3. Navigate to the page under which you want to create the new document.
4. Click the **New** action on the toolbar. A **New document** dialog opens.
5. Choose the type of document that you want to create.

   ![Creating a document on the live site](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/creating-new-documents-and-pages/creating_document_on_livesite.png "Creating a document on the live site")

   > **Note:** The types of documents that you can create vary depending on how your administrator configured the system. For example, you may only be able to create a **News** document under the news section of your site. If you are allowed to create a single type of document only, then you are redirected directly to the document's editing form (step 6).
6. Fill in the editing form.

   ![Filling in document details](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/creating-new-documents-and-pages/creating_document_in_interface2.png "Filling in document details")
7. Click on **Save** to confirm, or **Save and create another** to confirm and start creating a new document.

You have created a new document. You can now [edit ](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/managing-website-content/working-with-documents-and-pages/editing-documents-and-pages.md)the document.

## Creating new pages

You can create new pages:

- [In the Pages application](#creating-new-pages-in-the-pages-application)
- [On Live site (Using On-Site editing)](#creating-new-pages-on-the-live-site)

### Creating new pages in the Pages application

> **Note:** Note that based on how your administrator configured the system, you may only be able to create new pages under certain sections of the Content tree.

1. Open the **Pages** application.
2. In Content tree, click on the item under which the new page should be placed.
3. Click **New** ().
4. Click on the **Page (menu item)** document type.

   ![Creating a new page in the user interface](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/creating-new-documents-and-pages/creating_pages_in_interface.png "Creating a new page in the user interface")
5. Fill in the **Page name** field.
6. Choose from the following options using the radio buttons below the **Page name** field:
   1. **Use existing page template** - choose to view reusable page templates.
   2. **Use parent page template** - choose to make the page inherit the template used by its parent document.
   3. **Create a blank page with layout** - choose to create a new ad-hoc portal page template using one of the page layouts below. Turn the **Copy this layout to my page template** check-box below to generate a unique copy of the chosen layout for this template—otherwise the template will share its layout. Any changes made to a shared layout affect all the page templates that use it.
   4. **Create a blank page** - choose to create a new ad-hoc portal page template for the new page. The page has a single web part zone and no other formatting.

      ![Choosing a page template](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/creating-new-documents-and-pages/choosing_page_template.png "Choosing a page template")
7. Click on **Save** to confirm, or **Save and create another** to confirm and start creating a new page.

You have created a new page. The system opens the page on the **Page** tab, where you can [edit ](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/managing-website-content/working-with-documents-and-pages/editing-documents-and-pages.md)the page.

### Creating new pages on the Live site

To be able to create pages on the Live site, your administrator needs to enable On-site editing on the site.

> **Note:** Note that based on how your administrator configured the system, you may only be able to create new pages under certain sections of the Content tree.

1. Log on to the Live site.
2. Click on the **Edit page** button in the top left corner.

   ![Editing a page on the live site](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/creating-new-documents-and-pages/edit_page_onsite.png "Editing a page on the live site")
3. Navigate to the page under which you want to create the new page.
4. Click the **New** action on the toolbar. A **New document** dialog opens.
5. Click on the \*\*Page (menu item)\*\*document type.

   ![Creating a new page on the live site](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/creating-new-documents-and-pages/creating_pages_on_livesite.png "Creating a new page on the live site")
6. Enter the new page's name into the **Page name** field.
7. Choose from the following options using the radio buttons below the **Page name** field:
   1. **Use existing page template** - choose to view reusable page templates.
   2. **Use parent page template** - choose to make the page inherit the template used by its parent document.
   3. **Create a blank page with layout** - choose to create a new ad-hoc portal page template using one of the page layouts below. Turn the **Copy this layout to my page template** check-box below to generate a unique copy of the chosen layout for this template—otherwise the template will share its layout. Any changes made to a shared layout affect all the page templates that use it.
   4. **Create a blank page** - choose to create a new ad-hoc portal page template for the new page. The page has a single web part zone and no other formatting.

      ![Choosing a page template](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/creating-new-documents-and-pages/choosing_page_template.png "Choosing a page template")
8. Click on **Save** to confirm, or **Save and create another** to confirm and start creating a new page.

You have created a new page. You can now [edit ](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/managing-website-content/working-with-documents-and-pages/editing-documents-and-pages.md)the page.