Core Docs - Digital Publishing - Create a Site

Rock Version: v20.0
Last Modified: 2026-05-01 1:28 PM

Creating a new site in Rock is simple. But it helps to do things in the proper order. Following the steps below will lead to a well-configured site every time.

Active - Inactive
You can mark web sites inactive. This is handy if you have older websites that you still want to keep around but are not actively being used. Marking them inactive removes them from the site list. There is a filter to allow them to be displayed if needed. An inactive website will still function, it just won't be displayed on the list of sites.

Allowed Frame Domains
Your Rock URL must also appear in this list otherwise you will lock yourself out of Rock's modal popups (such as the HTML editor, block settings, etc.) Therefore, if you wanted to allow www.yoursite.com to be embedded on www.xyz.com, you would specify the following in your list:http://www.yoursite.com https://www.yoursite.com http://www.xyz.com https://www.xyz.com  

Site Attributes
Attributes can be added to any entity in Rock, including Sites. If you've added any site Attributes, you'll be able to see and provide values for them from the Site Detail block. See the Entity Attributes section of the Rock Fundamentals guide for more details.  

Page Attributes

The Page Attributes section of the Add Site screen is an advanced setting that gives you a ton of control over your layout of your site. The attributes you create here will apply across all of the pages of your site, but each page will have its own attribute value. For example, you create an image attribute for a page, then dynamically access that attribute in your header, as shown in the following sample code:

Set Banner Image