Pages & Repair pages

The menu points at pages, and Barbican creates them for you. When the plugin is activated it provisions a set of WordPress pages — one for each public and contact-facing view — and links the menu to them. This page covers which pages those are, how they’re put together, and how to restore one if it’s ever deleted.

The pages Barbican creates

Each page is an ordinary WordPress page that hosts Barbican blocks. They come in three kinds:

Page	What it shows	In the menu
Properties	The searchable listings browse page	Yes
Property	A single listing (reached at /properties/<id>)	No — see below
Agents	The agent directory	Yes
Agent	A single agent (reached at /agents/<id>)	No
Open Houses	Upcoming open houses	Yes
Open House	A single event	No
Office	Your office profile	Yes
Profile	The signed-in contact’s editable profile	Yes
My Listings	A contact’s saved listings	Yes
My Notes	A contact’s notes with their agent	Yes

The detail pages — Property, Agent, Open House — aren’t in the menu on purpose. There’s just one Property page, and Barbican routes every listing URL (/properties/<id>) to it, filling it with that listing’s data. The same holds for agents and open houses. That’s why they’re reached through their list, not a menu item. (See Navigation for how the list item stays highlighted while you’re on a detail page.)

Note

Active add-ons can contribute their own pages the same way — Barbican Showings adds a My Appointments page, for instance. They appear and disappear with the add-on.

How a page is assembled

Every page hosts Barbican blocks, and you edit it like any other page — in the block editor, with the full range of WordPress tools.

Each page is seeded from a pattern: a ready-made arrangement of Barbican’s small blocks. The simpler pages are a short arrangement; the richer ones — Properties, the Property detail, Office, Profile, the open house pages — combine several (breadcrumbs, a heading, a filter, a list, and so on). Either way it’s just blocks: nothing about the arrangement is fixed, so you can reorder it, drop pieces you don’t want, or add your own.

That composition is the heart of how Barbican works, and the next two pages cover it: Patterns (the ready-made arrangements) and Blocks (the individual pieces).

Barbican won’t overwrite your edits

Provisioning runs once. Barbican creates a page only if it doesn’t already have one, so activating the plugin — or updating it later — never overwrites changes you’ve made to a page’s content. Your edits are safe.

The trade-off: because Barbican deliberately leaves existing pages alone, it also won’t automatically bring back a page you delete. That’s what Repair pages is for.

Repair pages

If a Barbican page gets deleted or trashed — its menu item breaks, or a URL starts 404ing — you can restore it in one click. On the Plugins screen, find Barbican and choose Repair pages:

Repair pages:

• Recreates only the pages (and the menu) that are missing — deleted or trashed.
• Leaves your existing pages untouched, edits and all. It’s additive, not a reset.
• Rebuilds the navigation menu if it was removed, and refreshes the listing URLs.

When it finishes, Barbican shows how many pages it recreated. If nothing was missing, it simply reports that none needed repair.

Tip

Repair pages is safe to run any time — it never deletes or overwrites content, so there’s no harm in trying it if a public page seems to have gone missing.

Next

You’ve seen that the richer pages are seeded from patterns. Next: Patterns — the ready-made block arrangements Barbican ships, and how to make them your own.