Custom Pages

Custom pages let you build extra info pages – for everything that fits no other tool: directions and parking, childcare, house rules, gift wishes, briefing notes for the witnesses. Every page has its own title, its own slug, its own icon and its own QR code.

Custom pages or event info?

Both tools show text and image – the difference is volume:

Event Info – one coherent text, prominently as a widget on the home page.
Custom Pages – several separate pages, each with its own topic, its own slug and its own icon.

Rule of thumb: as soon as you would need subheadings inside event info, custom pages are the better choice. Custom pages have no widget on the home page – and therefore no Visibility tab either. You control visibility per page with Draft and Published.

Where to find the tool

Admin sidebar with the Custom Pages entry under Planning highlighted — ① **Custom Pages** sits under **Planning** in the sidebar. On mobile you reach the same screen through **All Tools**.

Header of Custom Pages with the New page button and the Display and QR code tabs highlighted — The header: the banner **Active — Guests can see and use this tool.** with the master switch, and three tabs below. ① **+ New page** creates a page, ② **Display** controls the guest-menu entry, ③ **QR code** gives you one code per page.

The master switch in the banner turns off the whole tool – every page disappears at once, no matter what status the individual pages have.

The page list

The Content tab holds the list of all pages. As long as none exists, you only see the empty state:

Empty state of Custom Pages with the note No pages yet and the New page button — The empty state suggests two useful examples right away – **Directions & parking** and **FAQ** – and the way there: **New page**.

Once pages exist, every row follows the same layout:

List of three custom pages with a row, the published switch, the arrows and the three-dot menu highlighted — ① Clicking the **row** opens the page for editing. ② The switch toggles between **Draft** and **Published**. ③ The arrows **↑ ↓** reorder. ④ The ⋮ menu holds everything else.

The order applies everywhere: in the guest overview, in the tool list on the home page, in the navigation and in the QR code tab.

Badges and status

Two rows compared, with the In tool list badge and the Draft status highlighted — ① The badge **In tool list** only appears on pages that get their own card on the home page. ② **Draft** with the switch off means: invisible to guests – even while the tool is active.

On mobile Photogala hides the status word to save space; only the switch remains. The In tool list badge is still shown there – with long titles it pushes the title into an ellipsis.

Opened three-dot menu of a page with four entries — ① Four entries: **Edit** opens the dialog, **Share & QR code** the share dialog, **Design in the Design Studio** jumps to the poster editor, **Delete** removes the page for good.

Creating a page

+ New page – or a click on a row – opens the same dialog. From top to bottom:

New page dialog with the title Getting there and parking and the slug getting-there filled in — ① **Title** – required, up to 200 characters, shown to guests as the page heading. ② **URL slug (optional)** – defines the address; leaving it empty is perfectly fine.

Title and slug

Title – required. Without it, Save stays greyed out. On multilingual events the title in the primary language is what counts.
URL slug (optional) – only lowercase letters, digits and hyphens are allowed, and the first character must be a letter or a digit (pattern ^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*$). Leave the field empty and Photogala derives the slug from the title: accents are folded (Directions & parking → directions-parking, Grüße → grusse), special characters are dropped, and the result is trimmed to 80 characters.

Content

Page dialog with the rich text editor toolbar highlighted — ① The same toolbar as in Event Info: undo/redo, text style, font and size, B I U S, colour, three alignments, lists, quote, divider, link, image, columns and special characters.

Every tool is described in detail on the Event Info page in the rich text editor section – including collapsibles, tabs and embedded tools.

Image

The three switches

Icon

Finish with Save at the bottom, or discard with Cancel.

The Display tab

Display tab of Custom Pages with the Entry in the guest menu switch highlighted — ① **Entry in the guest menu** is the master switch for all page cards: it decides whether custom pages appear in the **Event info & tools** row on the home page at all. Which individual page shows up there is set in the page dialog.

Order and your own entries for that row are set in the guest menu editor – the link Open menu editor takes you straight there. This tool has no widget, which is why the tab is limited to this single switch.

The QR code tab: one per page

The QR code tab behaves differently here than in the other tools: there is no shared QR code for the whole tool, but one QR code per published page. Each leads straight to that one page.

QR code tab with one block per published page, a card and the export buttons highlighted — ① One block per published page: QR code, title, the note that guests land directly on this page, **Copy Link** and the full address. ② The outputs **Design in the Design Studio**, **Export PDF**, **QR as PNG** and **QR as SVG**.

On password-protected events you can enable Embed password in link at the top – guests then land on the page without typing the password. Whoever passes the link on also passes on the access.

The menu entry Share & QR code offers the same range compactly, for exactly one page:

Share dialog of a custom page with the link row and the four print and design buttons highlighted — ① The **Link** row with the full address and **Copy Link**; below it **Share via** WhatsApp, email and Facebook. ② Under **Print & design** the four outputs – from the **Design Studio** to **QR as SVG**.

A page’s address always ends in …/tools/custom_pages?page=<slug> – so the slug lives in the link, not as a path of its own.

How it reaches your guests

Event info and tools row on the guest home page with the card of a custom page highlighted — ① A page with **Show as its own entry in the tool list** appears in the **Event info & tools** row under **its own name** – here *Our story*, not *Custom Pages*.

Whether anything shows up there depends on three conditions at once: the tool must be active, Entry in the guest menu must be on in the Display tab, and the individual page needs Published plus Show as its own entry in the tool list.

Info and pages overview in the guest view with three entries — ① If no card leads straight to a page, guests land on the overview **Info & pages** first: one entry per published page, with icon and title.

Exactly one published page – it is shown directly, with no intermediate step.
Several pages – the overview comes first; a click opens the page. Back to overview only appears if the guest actually came through the overview – anyone entering directly via QR code or card sees Back to home instead.
No published page – guests only see a note that nothing has been published yet.

A finished custom page in the guest view with heading, image and text — This is what a finished page looks like: the tool row and **Back to home** at the top, then title, image and your text – fonts and colours come from your event's appearance.

Practical examples

Directions & parking – slug directions, signpost icon. Three tabs for By car, By train and On foot, plus an image of the area map. As a notice next to the car park: Export PDF.
Childcare – slug childcare, guests icon. A short text plus collapsibles for questions like From what age? and Where exactly?.
House rules – slug house-rules, building icon. A bullet list is enough; Link in the navigation keeps it reachable at any time.
Notes for the witnesses – slug witnesses. Not in the navigation, no entry in the tool list – you send this page out deliberately via Share & QR code. It stays reachable for anyone who has the link.

Limits

50 pages per event. Once the limit is reached, the server rejects further pages with a message.
Title: up to 200 characters. Slug: up to 80 characters, lowercase letters, digits and hyphens only.
Embedding: you can embed other pages inside a page’s content – but only published ones, never the page itself, and only one level deep. An embedded page no longer renders its own embeds.

Troubleshooting

My page doesn’t show up for guests. Check in order: is the page set to Published? Is the tool active in the banner at the top? And is Entry in the guest menu on in the Display tab? All three have to be right.
No card appears on the home page at all. Custom pages only ever appear there as individual page cards. Turn on Show as its own entry in the tool list for at least one page – otherwise the row stays empty for this tool, even with pages published.
The card is missing on mobile. The row only shows the frontmost entries there. Swipe sideways or open All Tools; alternatively turn off a tool you don’t need anyway.
The navigation item is missing. The page must be published and have Link in the navigation enabled. The tool-list switch plays no role here.
I can’t pick an icon. The icon picker only appears once Show as its own entry in the tool list or Link in the navigation is on.
Saving fails. Either the title is missing, or the URL slug doesn’t match the pattern – in that case the message sits right at the field. If the slug is already taken, the message comes as a toast; either way the dialog stays open.
My page’s QR code has vanished. The tab only lists published pages. Set the page to Draft and its block disappears – and an already printed code leads nowhere.
An embedded page stays empty. Only published pages are embedded, and embeds go one level deep only.

For guests: Tools in the event – how the pages come across to guests.
For hosts: Event Info – the rich text editor in detail · Thank You · Tooling overview
Further reading: Design Studio – design QR posters · Plans & upgrades