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Edit your site here

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When you retire WordPress®, the site can still change. Turn on editing for the site, and edit it in the dashboard by clicking on the page itself, or by asking your AI assistant. It's optional: sites that keep WordPress don't need it.

Turn it on

  1. Open the site in the dashboard and expand Retiring WordPress? Edit the site here instead.
  2. Tick the box and click Edit here instead of WordPress.
  3. Wait a minute or two while WranglePress turns your copy into editable pages.

From then on, WordPress isn't copied for this site: the plugin's publish notices are ignored and Build now is replaced by Edit pages. Turning it on doesn't change how any page looks, and a live site stays live.

Shared parts: anything that repeats

WranglePress finds what repeats exactly across your pages and keeps one copy of each: the header, footer and sidebar, and also menus and content sections, like a "Call us today" band or a contact block that appears on several pages. Change it once, and every page that uses it changes. Pages lists each part, named after its heading, and how many pages use it. In the visual editor, anything inside a shared part is labelled, so you always know when a change reaches other pages.

  • More than one version. If your landing pages have a different header from the rest, each version becomes its own part (Header and Header 2), and each page keeps the one it had.
  • Menus still highlight the right page. Each page keeps its own current-page marking.
  • Nothing changes how it looks. A part is only shared where the page comes out exactly as before; otherwise the page keeps its own copy.
  • Change it on one page only. Click inside the shared part in the visual editor, then Change it on this page only. The page gets its own copy to change, and the other pages keep the shared one.

Parts are looked for on up to 200 pages, spread across the site; a bigger site still uses them on every page that has them.

The visual editor

Open Edit pages, then a page. You see the page as visitors do:

  • Text: double-click it and type. Press Enter (in headings, buttons and links) or click elsewhere to finish, and Esc to undo the typing. Pasted text arrives as plain text.
  • Links: click a link to change where it goes, and whether it opens in a new tab.
  • Pictures: click a picture to replace it (JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP or AVIF, up to 10 MB) or change its description for screen readers and search.
  • Sections: click anything, then Duplicate, Move up, Move down or Delete. Select a larger area picks the box around it.
  • Page settings: the title (shown in browser tabs and search results), the search description and the page's address. A changed address sends visitors from the old one to the new one.
  • Edit HTML is there for anything else, for each page and each shared part.

Click Save to keep your changes. Tick and publish to put them live at the same time (owners and admins).

New pages

On Pages, under Add a page, give it a title and an address, and choose the page whose layout to use:

  • Copy that page to start from its content and change what you need (the easiest way to make a page like one you already have), or
  • Start empty with just its header and footer.

A new page gets its own title, description and address for search engines, and appears in your sitemap. Add a link to it in your menu by editing the header.

Versions, publishing and going back

  • Every save is a version. It's on your preview address straight away. Visitors see it only after you publish (from Pages, History or the editor).
  • History lists every version: when, what changed and who changed it. Restore brings an earlier version back as the newest one, so nothing is ever lost; then publish it.
  • If two people change the same page at once, the second save is refused with a message, so nobody's work is overwritten silently. Reload and make the change again. Saves to different pages don't get in each other's way.

Changing a shared part on a large site (hundreds of pages) takes a moment to apply to every page; History shows it as running until it's done.

With an AI assistant

Connect your assistant (AI assistants) and ask in plain words: "change our opening hours in the footer to 8 to 6", "add a page for drain cleaning, laid out like the plumbing page", "what did we change this week?" or "undo the last change". Assistants save versions the same way, show you the preview address, and publish only when you ask.

Good to know

  • Forms keep working on every page, new ones included, as set under Forms in Settings.
  • Search engines: /sitemap.xml is kept up to date from your pages, and WordPress's own sitemap addresses send search engines to it.
  • Members of your team can edit and save versions; owners and admins publish.
  • Going back to WordPress: on the site's page, under Go back to building from WordPress. The next build copies WordPress again and replaces what you edited here (your versions stay in History).
  • Some WordPress output leaves out closing tags; those few spots can't be changed in the visual editor, and it says so. Use Edit HTML for them.