How editing works

This is the page that explains the button you will press most often, and the one thing that confuses almost everybody on their first afternoon.

The AI writes drafts. It publishes nothing.

Every change the AI makes is saved to a draft. Ask for a five-page site and you get five pages to look at — not five pages on the internet.

Nothing you or the AI does reaches a visitor until you press Publish.

This is deliberate. An assistant that could change a live business website mid-sentence would be a bad idea however good it was, and “have a look first” is the whole point of a draft.

Every record has two versions

A page, a block and the site’s own settings each exist twice at once:

• the draft, which is what you see in the dashboard and what the AI writes
• the published version, which is what a visitor sees

They are independent until you publish. You can rewrite the homepage over an afternoon, change your mind, and the live site will not have moved.

Publish sends everything

The Publish button publishes the whole site, not the page you are looking at. There is deliberately no way to send less.

The reason is that pages are not independent. A page can embed a block, link to another page, and rely on the site’s CSS — so publishing one page on its own can produce a live site that is broken rather than merely out of date. Sending everything at once means what goes live is a set of things that were written to work together.

The badge is the safety net

Beside Publish is a count of everything waiting to go out. If it says nothing is waiting, the live site matches your drafts. If it says four, four things have changed since the last publish.

It is worth trusting. It compares each of your drafts against the release that is live right now, rather than against a note of what was published — a note is the kind of thing that drifts, and a comparison against the real thing cannot.

Point at the thing you mean

Most small edits are hard to say and easy to see. Rather than writing “the paragraph under the second heading in the services section”, point at it.

Press the pencil beside Publish. It is there on a page’s Content tab, the one with the preview, and while it is on the preview is in edit mode:

• Moving the pointer outlines whatever is under it.
• A click selects it. A small label at its corner names it, and opening the label lists what it sits inside, so you can pick the whole card rather than the line of text in it.
• What you selected appears as a chip above the message box. Type what you want, “rewrite this”, “make this shorter”, “a different picture here”, and the AI reads it alongside your words. Remove the chip with its × if you picked the wrong thing.
• Links do nothing, so you can select one without leaving the page.

Press the pencil again and the preview is an ordinary one, drawn exactly as a visitor would see it.

The AI knows the thing you selected is usually a part of what you mean: select the text inside a card and ask for the card to change colour, and it will work on the card.

It also knows when the thing you selected is not really on this page. Your header and footer are usually blocks, shared pieces rendered into every page, so selecting a menu item on the homepage is pointing at the header block, and the chip says so. The AI edits the block, and tells you the change will show on every page that uses it.

After the edit, the preview stays put: whatever you pointed at is kept where it was on screen, rather than the page jumping back to the top.

Retyping text yourself

A typo or a reworded sentence does not need the AI. With the pencil on, select a piece of text and click inside it again, and you can type over it where it is.

• Enter starts a new line inside that piece of text. It never starts a new paragraph.
• Escape cancels and puts the text back.
• Clicking away saves it to your draft, like any other change: it has its revisions, and it waits for Publish.

Only plain text written into this page can be retyped. Text with formatting inside it (a bold word, a coloured phrase), text the site fills in for itself (a title in a list, an item’s field, anything a loop wrote) and text in a block such as your header stay the AI’s to change. The label says why when you select one; ask for the change in words instead.

Links in the preview go somewhere

With the pencil off, the preview behaves like your site. Click a link to another page or item on your site and that page’s editor opens. A link that leads off your site does nothing.

So if your change is not live

Look at the badge, and press Publish. That is the answer far more often than anything else in these pages.