The builder
Where you edit your pages and open the shop, customers and settings. Here’s how it’s laid out.
The builder opens when you choose Edit on a site in the dashboard. The tools are on the left, and the page as visitors see it is in the middle.
The left column
At the top are three tabs:
- Blocks: everything you can put on a page, grouped by kind: heroes, text, images and video, shop, map, forms and more.
- Pages: the pages of the site. Drag them to change the order. The menu next to each page has Rename, Set as home page, Show in header or Hide from header, Move under another page, and Delete.
- Manage: everything that isn’t a page:
- Business: Shop (products, orders and discounts), Customers, Venue & bookings and Newsletter
- Content: Blog posts, Events and Menu (for restaurants)
- Team: Collaborators (invite editors and viewers)
At the bottom are:
- Set up your shop, with your progress (for online shops, until everything is done)
- Preview, SEO (for the page you’re on), Settings (for the whole site) and Help
- Publish site the first time. Later it says Publish changes when you have changes visitors don’t see yet, otherwise Published
Sub-pages in the menu
A page you move under another page shows in a dropdown menu in the header. Open the sub-page and write a short Menu text in the side panel, and it shows under the page's name in the dropdown. If the field is empty, only the name shows.
Menu text and Google description are two different texts. One is 3–8 words for people looking at the menu, the other is 120–160 characters for people searching on Google.
Adding and editing blocks
- Select the block on the page that the new one should come after.
- Choose a block in the Blocks tab. It’s added below the block you selected.
- Select the block on the page to change its text, images and look.
You can also type straight into the text on the page.
Saving
Everything saves automatically as you work. All changes saved shows that everything is safe. If it says the last change wasn’t saved, try again, and check that you’re online.
Undo
Undo and redo with the buttons above the page, or with keyboard shortcuts:
| Action | Mac | Windows |
|---|---|---|
| Undo | ⌘ Z | Ctrl Z |
| Redo | ⌘ ⇧ Z | Ctrl Y |
Undo covers changes to the blocks on the page.
Publishing
Choose Publish site the first time. After that, everything you do in the editor is saved, but visitors don’t see it until you choose Publish changes. So you can work on a page in peace and publish it when it’s done.
What waits for you is the pages, blocks, menus and design. Products, prices, stock, blog posts and events show to visitors as soon as you save them.
If you don’t want to keep your changes, choose the arrow next to Publish changes and Discard changes. The editor then goes back to how visitors see the site now.
Unpublish takes the site down again. Nobody can see it, or buy anything, until you publish it again.
Tip: Preview shows the page without the builder’s tools, as visitors see it.
Back to the dashboard
The arrow in the top left, Back to dashboard, takes you to all your sites.