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How-to: browse your site while editing

Browse pages and make edits in the editor before publishing

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A screenshot of adding a link in the visual editor, with the local page dropdown.

Your dashboard has all of your website’s pages. It allows you to manage pages, add new ones, and go into the editor to make changes to them, without having to publish until you’re ready to.

Browsing and editing

When going into the visual editor, you see a preview of your page before going into edit mode. While in preview mode, you can browse through pages you’ve created in Blocks Edit for your site. And go into edit mode to make any changes as you’re browsing.

This allows for times when you need to review multiple areas on your site that need changes and you want to preview how those changes come together. It also gives you the opportunity to review the changes with your team.

Local links

In order for you to browse your pages, you need to make sure your local links are setup properly. A local link is just a link to any page within your site. In the Blocks Edit editor, there’s an easy way to add a link to any page on your site by using the local pages dropdown when you add a new link. So you don’t have to remember exactly what the path for your link is.

When choosing your page from the dropdown for the link, the link path is automatically added based on the slug variable for your page. A slug is what’s used for the path in the URL of your page. If you want to change your slug variable for any page, go to your page’s settings, located in the side bar while in edit mode, and click on the Meta tab for the page slug field.

Browsing and editing gives you full control of your pages and making edits to them, while keeping your site in a browseable draft mode until you’re completely ready to publish.

Setup your website HTML in Blocks Edit to start building and browsing pages.

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