Ability to create Page

[msamgan]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

The majority of developers like to have pages on there blogs like About, Uses, etc. We need pages in canvas.

Describe the solution you'd like

Ability to create page.

Describe alternatives you've considered

NA

Additional context

No response

Validations

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• [X] Read the Contributing Guide.
• [X] Check that there isn't already an issue that asks for the same feature to avoid creating a duplicate.

[austintoddj]

Hi @msamgan - While Canvas does the heavy-lifting of blogs & publications in the backend, it's de-coupled from how you choose to display things on the frontend. I don't disagree that most developers would find use with the pages you mentioned. Canvas does provide a basic frontend interface with the canvas:ui Artisan command, so any changes you'd like to see should likely go there. I'd be more than happy to take a look at a pull request if you create one.

[msamgan]

Hi Austin,

I am working on the PR for this feature. can you please tell me what your preference is?

Approach one: Adding a new table "canvas_pages"

Pros:

• everything is separated, there will be no conflict between posts and pages for future updates

Cons

• duplication in code for posts and pages
• complexity if the same code is used for both.

Approach two: Adding a new column "type" enum ("post", "page") with default "post" in the canvas_posts table (WordPress approach).

Pros:

• fast to implement
• not much change in creation and edit

Cons

• future updates for posts will be complicated.
• all posts APIs will be needing an update

please let me know, what is your verdict on this.