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Editing Text, Images and Links

Click the thing you want to change.

Most of what you change on a finished page is small: a headline that is nearly right, a photograph that should be a different photograph, a button pointing at the wrong place.

All three are direct. You click the thing, not a panel describing the thing.

Steps

Click any text to edit it

Hovering highlights the text you are about to edit. Click and it becomes editable in place; type as you would anywhere else.

This costs nothing and involves no generation. It is a direct edit to the words on the page, which is exactly what you want for fixing a claim, a number or a name.

Editing text in the editor does not change the page for visitors until you Save, and does not change the live page until you Publish.

Click an image to replace it

Images are clickable and open your media library, so you can swap one for another without touching the section around it.

The replacement inherits the original's treatment — its size, crop behaviour and position in the layout are properties of the block, not of the file. That is why swapping an image rarely breaks a section.

Click a button or a link to change where it goes

Buttons and links open an editor for their label and their destination, and the destination field suggests addresses from your own site — your pages, your sections, your navigation entries and your blog posts.

Use the suggestions rather than typing addresses by hand. A suggested address is one that exists; a typed one is a guess, and a mistyped internal link is the most common broken link on any site.

You can also link to a section within a page, which is how a button can jump a visitor down the page rather than away from it.

Leave the interactive parts alone

Accordions, carousels and tabs keep working as controls in the editor. Clicking an accordion heading opens the accordion; it does not make the heading editable.

That is deliberate, and useful: it means you can open each panel to check the content inside it. To change the words in a panel, open it first and then click the text inside.

Save when you are done

The Save button changes appearance as soon as you have edited anything. Press it, or use Ctrl/Cmd + S.

Saving writes every section you touched, and takes a version snapshot of the page first — so a save you regret can be undone.

Inline edits live only in your browser until you save. Closing the tab loses them.

Result

The page says what you want it to say, with no generation cost and a restore point behind you.

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