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, the browse and contact-facing views, and links the menu to them. Individual listings, agents, and open houses get their own pages automatically, a bit differently. This page covers both, how they’re put together, and how to restore a provisioned page if it’s ever deleted.

The pages Barbican creates

Each page is an ordinary WordPress page that hosts Barbican blocks. These are the browse pages and the signed-in contact’s pages:

Page	What it shows	In the menu
Properties	The searchable listings browse page	Yes
Agents	The agent directory	Yes
Open Houses	Upcoming open houses	Yes
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
My Appointments	A contact’s showing appointments	Yes

Detail pages are created for you

A single listing, agent, or open house isn’t one of the pages above. Instead, Barbican gives each record its own page automatically. The moment a property, agent, or open house is created (including when MLS Import brings one in), Barbican mirrors it into a WordPress post with its own permalink:

Record	Appears under	Public URL
A property listing	Barbican → Properties	/properties/<slug>
An agent	Barbican → Members	/agents/<slug>
An open house	Barbican → Open Houses	/openhouses/<slug>

There’s no extra work: add or import a listing and its public page already exists, ready to link and share.

Your RESO data stays the single source of truth. The projected post is a thin shell, not a copy of the record. It stores only a pointer back to the RESO record, and the Barbican blocks on it read that record’s live data at render time. Nothing about the listing is duplicated into WordPress, so an edit you make to the listing in the Barbican admin shows on its public page with nothing to sync.

You’ll find these posts under the Barbican admin menu, one list per type:

Open any one in the block editor to adjust that single page’s layout without touching the others. The layout each post starts with is the record’s detail pattern, baked in when the post is created.

Note

Only real agents get a public page. A member set up purely for the audit trail (a Non Member/Vendor, such as the admin who configured the plugin) still exists as a Member, but has no public /agents page.

For how the Properties, Agents, or Open Houses menu item stays highlighted while a visitor is on one of these detail pages, see Navigation.

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 same patterns the detail posts above are built from. The simpler pages are a short arrangement. The richer ones, like Properties, Office, and Profile, combine several: breadcrumbs, a heading, a filter, a list, and so on. Either way it’s just blocks, so nothing about the arrangement is fixed. 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 is that 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 one of these provisioned pages gets deleted or trashed, its menu item breaks or its URL starts 404ing, and you can restore it in one click. On the Plugins screen, find Barbican and choose Repair pages:

Repair pages:

• Recreates only the provisioned 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. (The automatic detail pages aren’t part of this. Each one follows its record, so there’s nothing to 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 covers the ready-made block arrangements Barbican ships, and how to make them your own.