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The Sitemap view is a visual tree of every page on your site and how they relate — parents, children, and the homepage. A clear hierarchy helps search engines understand your site and helps you keep navigation tidy. 
Project > Sitemap

Conversational

Ask the AI to reorganize

Visual

Use the canvas directly

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What This View Shows

  • A canvas with every page rendered as a node
  • Parent-child relationships drawn as lines
  • The homepage marked with a special indicator
  • Published pages shown in one color, drafts in another

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Option 1: Ask the AI

This is the fastest way to restructure a sitemap — the AI handles re-parenting, updating navigation, and rewriting internal links. From the AI chat: 
Reorganize my sitemap so About and Contact are under a new 
"Company" parent page.

Move the blog index page under /resources and update internal links.
The AI shows the plan, gets your approval, then applies changes.

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Option 2: Visual Editor

1

Open the Sitemap page

Click Sitemap in the project sidebar.
2

Find the page you want to move

Pan and zoom the canvas. Each page is a labeled node.
3

Right-click a page node

A context menu appears with:
  • Edit Parent — pick a different parent page
  • Set as Homepage — make this page the site root
  • Delete — remove the page (with confirmation)
4

Add a new page

Click + Add Page in the toolbar. Enter title, slug, and parent.
5

Save

Changes save as you make them. No deploy yet — you’ll need to click Deploy to push live.

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Why Hierarchy Matters for SEO

Search engines use your site’s structure to understand relationships between pages. A flat sitemap (every page at the root) makes everything look equally important and loses context. A well-nested sitemap:
  • Tells Google which pages are hub pages vs. detail pages
  • Provides breadcrumb context (Home > Services > Web Design)
  • Improves internal link equity flow
  • Helps render breadcrumb schema in search results
These are related but not the same:
  • Sitemap — the structural tree of every page, including pages not in nav. This is what /sitemap.xml generates from.
  • Navigation — the links you put in your header and footer. A subset of the sitemap chosen for prominence.
Edit navigation (header/footer links) in Content > Pages or via the AI. The Sitemap view focuses on structure only.
To edit an individual page’s content, slug, or meta (not its position in the tree), use Manage Website Pages. The Sitemap view is for hierarchy.

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Verifying Your Sitemap

After deploying, check the generated XML sitemap that search engines use: 
https://{project}.hiveku.com/sitemap.xml
You should see every published page with its last-modified date. Submit this URL to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools — see Connect Google Search Console.

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Troubleshooting

Pages only appear once saved. Go to Content > Pages, create the page there, then return to the Sitemap view.
Drag-to-reorder on the canvas is coming soon. For now, use the right-click Edit Parent menu, or ask the AI: “Make X the parent of Y”.
The public sitemap.xml is generated at deploy time. Click Deploy to regenerate. Then resubmit the sitemap in Google Search Console to trigger a recrawl.
Right-click the page you want as homepage and choose Set as Homepage. The previous homepage becomes a regular page at whatever slug it has.
If you haven’t deployed since the deletion, restore from Settings > Deployment > History by rolling back. After deployment, the page is gone — you’ll need to recreate it.

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What’s Next?

Manage Website Pages

Edit individual page content, slugs, and meta

SEO Setup

Submit your sitemap to search engines