Source: https://docs.amadalis.ai/site/site-setup/

# Set up a site from a template

Checked against the product’s code on 7 November 2026.

Open **Site** > **Site setup** to pick a starting design for your website. A first setup offers [templates](https://docs.amadalis.ai/reference/glossary/#starter-site) for the site. An existing site can add a template’s pages beside the content it already has. Use **Front page** below to choose what opens at your website’s main address.

The [approval card](https://docs.amadalis.ai/reference/glossary/#approval-card) distinguishes draft pages from live settings. A first setup can also change navigation, the public site name, the header button and the active [theme](https://docs.amadalis.ai/reference/glossary/#theme). Review those effects before approving. If the template declares content collections, the card also names the collections and fields it creates before the pages, or the compatible collections it reuses. Its lists are set to those declared collections.

## Choose a template and its copy

For the first setup below, use a template that includes pages. The business description and contact fields appear only when **Let AI write the text for your site** is selected. If it is off, skip those fields and continue with **Set my site up**.

1.  Choose a template from the list.
2.  Inspect the pages it creates and the theme choices it offers.
3.  Compare **Light** and **Dark** previews if available.
4.  For a first setup, fill in **The name on your site**. This is the public name used in the header, footer and page titles.
5.  If you want copy tailored to the business, select **Let AI write the text for your site**.
6.  If AI copy is on, fill in **What your business does**.
7.  If AI copy is on, fill in **Who it is for**.
8.  Add the **Address** you want used.
9.  Add the **Email** you want used.
10.  Add the **Phone** you want used.
11.  Add **Anything else worth putting on the site** that you want used. Give real facts; blank answers are left out.
12.  Choose **Set my site up**.
13.  Read **Set this site up from the template?** Review the page list and any live navigation or theme changes.
14.  Choose **Create the drafts** or **Not now**.

If you leave AI copy off, the built-in starters keep neutral words and leave a note where a section needs your facts. Fill each note with your information, or remove its section, before publishing.

## Review and publish the result

1.  Read the result for the pages created and anything left to finish.
2.  Check any empty picture slots and button destinations it names.
3.  Open a draft in the Composer.
4.  Check its content.
5.  Review its preview.
6.  Publish that page separately when ready. Repeat for each draft.

The setup does not publish those pages for you. The Composer names sections that still need your facts separately from other sample words. Choose a section’s name to find it. Fill its note or remove the section before publishing; the refusal names any sections still waiting. Check a named FAQ’s answers too, since a closed answer can hide its note. Other publish checks, including button destinations, still apply. See [Getting started](https://docs.amadalis.ai/get-started/getting-started/) for the publish card.

## Add pages to an existing site

1.  Choose **Add pages from a template** in **Site setup**.
2.  Pick the template.
3.  Review the pages.
4.  Choose **Add these pages**.
5.  Read **Add this template’s pages?** Check each proposed address.
6.  Choose **Add the drafts**.

The addition creates draft pages beside your existing pages. It keeps the current navigation, theme and public site name. If an address is taken, it chooses an unused address with a number added. For example, when `/home` is taken and `/home-2` is free, the template’s Home is added at `/home-2`. Read the approval card for each page’s proposed address before choosing **Add the drafts**. The receipt names any moved address afterwards. If no unused address can be found, the addition is refused.

[![Add this template's pages? card for Blog / editorial: it creates 4 draft pages, Home, Featured Article, About and Subscribe, next to the existing pages; nothing is published; nothing already there is changed, replaced or removed, and the navigation and theme stay as they are; Home will be added at /home-2 because /home is taken. The four pages are listed as Draft at /home-2, /featured-article, /about and /subscribe, with Not now and Add the drafts.](https://docs.amadalis.ai/images/steps/S095-site-setup-add-template-approval-card.png)](https://docs.amadalis.ai/images/steps/S095-site-setup-add-template-approval-card.png "Open full-size image")

Read the approval: it adds drafts only and names each page's address.

[![Add pages from a template view with Creative agency selected, draft-page previews and the AI copy option.](https://docs.amadalis.ai/images/owners/platform-site-site-setup-template-list.png)](https://docs.amadalis.ai/images/owners/platform-site-site-setup-template-list.png)

Adding template pages to an existing company site. This is the addition flow, not a clean first setup. [Open full size](https://docs.amadalis.ai/images/owners/platform-site-site-setup-template-list.png).

Read the receipt, then open the added drafts in EmDash’s **Pages** and **Posts** to review them before publishing.

[![Site setup added four Blog / editorial drafts without publishing or changing existing content; the receipt lists their addresses, Home at /home-2, four empty picture slots and Undo this addition.](https://docs.amadalis.ai/images/steps/S095-site-setup-added-drafts-receipt.png)](https://docs.amadalis.ai/images/steps/S095-site-setup-added-drafts-receipt.png "Open full-size image")

The receipt names every draft, any moved address, and offers Undo.

[![EmDash Pages list with the new Subscribe, About and Home pages at the top, each marked Draft, above the store's own pages.](https://docs.amadalis.ai/images/steps/S095-site-setup-added-drafts-in-pages.png)](https://docs.amadalis.ai/images/steps/S095-site-setup-added-drafts-in-pages.png "Open full-size image")

The added pages wait as drafts beside your own.

[![EmDash Posts list with one row, Featured Article, marked Draft.](https://docs.amadalis.ai/images/steps/S095-site-setup-added-article-in-posts.png)](https://docs.amadalis.ai/images/steps/S095-site-setup-added-article-in-posts.png "Open full-size image")

The template's article is added as a draft post.

## Choose the front page and header button

Once the site has content, **Site setup** also offers **[Front page](https://docs.amadalis.ai/reference/glossary/#front-page)** and **Header button**.

**To choose the front page:**

1.  Under **Front page**, choose **A page** or **The posts index**.
2.  If you chose **A page**, select a published page.
3.  Choose **Review the change**.
4.  Read its card.
5.  Confirm **Set the front page** if it matches your intent.

That changes what visitors get at the site’s main address. The receipt offers **Undo** while that reversal remains available.

**To change the header button:**

1.  Under **Header button**, fill in **The button’s words**.
2.  Choose **The page it opens**.
3.  Choose **Review and save**.
4.  Review the card’s comparison of the button words and destination.
5.  Confirm **Publish this change**.

This is a live site setting, with its own receipt and Undo.

[![Site setup shows amadalis serving at /, no replacement front page selected, and Header button words Apply to Lighthouse with a page-of-this-site destination.](https://docs.amadalis.ai/images/owners/prx-account-open-admin-dark-1600w-20261031-poster.webp)](https://docs.amadalis.ai/images/owners/prx-account-open-admin-dark-1600w-20261031-poster.webp)

Check the selected front page and the header button’s words and destination before approving a shared site change. [Open full size](https://docs.amadalis.ai/images/owners/prx-account-open-admin-dark-1600w-20261031-poster.webp).

## Undo a setup

1.  In the first setup’s result, choose **Undo this setup**.
2.  Read **Undo this site setup?**
3.  Choose **Undo the setup** or **Keep it**.

Eligible new pages go to the recoverable Trash. Pages you edited or published afterwards are left alone. Earlier navigation, name, header button and theme are restored only where it is safe to do so. A collection created by the setup is removed only while empty and not listed by a page. Read the result for anything kept or refused.

An addition has its own **Undo** receipt. Undoing an addition does not restore the site’s earlier theme or menu, since that addition did not replace them.

## Your next step

Open the new drafts in [the Composer](https://docs.amadalis.ai/composer/composer/). Fill any notes asking for your facts, check links and review each page before publishing. Pages already created from a starter are not rewritten by a catalogue update.