Website look, address, search and custom code

Open Website (sidebar, under Grow), then the Settings tab. It has six sections down the left: Your web address, Site look, Languages, Moving from another site, Custom code and Search engines. The last two are marked Advanced.

Your web address

This section shows where your site lives. If a domain is connected to this community, it is listed first as Connected or Waiting for DNS. Your Drry address is always listed, and always works, even after a domain is connected. Once a domain is verified, search engines are told your site lives there.

Domains are set up in one place: Settings, then Domains. The owner or an admin sees a Manage domains button here, or Connect a domain when none is connected, that takes them there. A domain you own but have not connected to this community is not listed here. Connecting a domain is for the community owner, and needs Creator or Growth. See Connect your own domain and Custom domain not verifying.

This section also shows The page at your address: which page visitors land on first. With no home page, visitors see your join page.

Site look

One look for the whole site: Colors, Fonts, Corners and Buttons, and a Label font for eyebrows, buttons and the menu. Corners (Sharp, Soft or Round) shapes your buttons and also the photos, cards and boxes on every page; Soft leaves them as designed. You can pick a ready palette or build one from your brand color. If a color would make text hard to read, Drry deepens it a little and says so.

Your blog and the join page you design also wear the site's Corners and Buttons, taken from your home page's look. Press Use this look and every page wears it, published pages included. History keeps a restore point from just before. Sections can still have their own style. Your community's own colors and fonts in Customize are not changed by the site look. See Make it look like yours.

Languages

A website starts in one language. Languages beside the main one need Creator or Growth. Add a language, and each page can have a translation: Translate makes a draft copy of the page for you to rewrite in that language. It lives at the main page's address under the language, such as /fr/about. A translation shows Out of date when the main page was saved after it. You can also word the menu, header and footer labels in each language. Translations count toward your page limit. See Languages for the whole picture.

Moving from another site

Paste your old website's address and press Find my pages. Drry reads its pages and matches each old address to one of your new pages: a sure match, a best guess to confirm, or none, where you Pick the page it became. Tick the ones to keep and press Keep N old links working (the button shows the count). The redirects go live at once, permanently (a 308), so old links and search ranking follow your new pages. An old address that ends in .html, .htm or .php, like /about.html, is moved like any other, capitals included, and an old index page counts as its folder, so /work/index.html needs nothing of its own. An address that ends in any other file name, like /logo.png, cannot be redirected, and the screen says how many were left out.

Under it is the list of every redirect you hold, where you add one at a time: Old address (like /about), Send visitors to (a page of yours), then Add redirect. An old address can hold no dot, apart from an ending of .html, .htm or .php. It also cannot begin with a word your community already uses (a real page always answers first), and a community keeps up to 500 redirects. This is also how you keep a link alive after you change a page's own address, since renaming a page records no redirect. Remove redirect stops one.

Search engines

What Google and a shared link say about a page that says nothing of its own: the site's default description and social picture, and whether the site is yours as a person or a business. Each page can still say its own in Page details. See Website pages, menu and publishing and What search and AI engines see.

Custom code

Code from services you use, such as analytics, a chat widget or a verification tag, can run on every page of your website and blog or only the website pages you pick. It runs on your public website and blog pages only, never in your members' area, your console or checkout. Only the owner and admins can change it. Everyone else sees it read only. Only paste code from a service you trust.

• Three boxes: In the head, At the start of the page and At the end of the page. Each has an on switch, a choice of Every website and blog page or Only chosen pages, and Wait for cookie consent.

• Google Tag Manager: paste your container id, such as GTM-ABC1234, and the container loads on every website and blog page once a visitor's cookie choice allows it.

• Custom code sections: a style sheet and a script written once that reach every custom code section on your website, so fonts and base styles are not repeated in each one. They run inside each section, never on the rest of the page. A section drawn into the page takes the styles only.

• On the blog: the every page boxes run on every public blog page. Boxes aimed at chosen pages never do. A post's draft preview and the blog's page-not-found page do not run your code.

• Ad tracking: your Meta, Google and TikTok pixels already load on every website page, with the cookie banner. Manage them under Analytics.

• Versions: every save is kept, and Put this back restores an earlier one. A change made by your assistant says so.

Custom code is also an ordinary section, in Add section under Custom code. It draws in its own frame by default. Choose Into the page under How it draws and a block with no script is drawn into the page itself, so search engines read its words. See Custom code sections for what each choice does, and What search and AI engines see.