well there is no other way to add a page than adding it as a child somewhere. be it through the sitemap or by going to the parent and adding it, that's what you're going to have to do.

if you're trying to edit blocks in defaults (which is really just the default blocks that get put on new pages of that type) you need to be using the admin account. If you've made a new account with administrator privileges, it still wont let you get into page defaults.

i was using the admin account. some of the blocks were fine, but i got access denied on the content block in question. not sure why.

Why only the admin for page defaults?

Here's a use case scenario:
It's a problem for me because the school site I'm building up is managed by a tech guy at the district office and he created an account for me with administrator privileges, so - at least until Monday when he's back - I can't get to the page defaults to implement site wide additions to each page.

I can install any theme I want, change the content to whatever I want, or pretty much delete all the 46 pages I've created, but I can't get to page defaults?

On my own local test server I enabled advanced privileges - still playing with them, but I haven't had luck giving my fictional new administrator user access to page defaults, so I want to confirm that it really is only the main admin user that has access to this page default area?