How do I edit content from the website itself? #

Some site designs show a website toolbar at the top of each page when an editor is signed in on the public site. It works on the page you are looking at, so you can fix a typo or add an article where you see it, without opening the administration. The toolbar comes from the extension ezwt and appears in the designs that include it (the classic website designs do); a site built on another design may not show it.

Who can do this #

Editors whose role has the policy websitetoolbar/use (it can be limited to some classes), plus the usual content/create, content/edit and content/remove rights for what they change. Sign in on the public site with your usual account.

Steps #

1. Sign in on the public site and open the page you want to work on. The toolbar appears above the page.
2. Use its buttons on the current page:
   • Create here: choose a class in the list next to it, then click the button; the new item is created below the current page;
   • Edit: edit the current page;
   • Move and Remove: move the page elsewhere or remove it (it goes to the trash);
   • Add locations: show the page in another place as well;
   • Sorting: change the order of the items below the current page.
3. In the edit form, the toolbar offers Send for publishing, Store draft, Store draft and exit, Discard draft, Preview and Manage versions, and Translate with Translate from for a translation.
4. When you are done, click Send for publishing, or Store draft and exit to finish later.

On classes set up for it, the toolbar also has Import, Replace and Export for word processor documents: see How do I import or export a word processor document?

What can go wrong #

• No toolbar appears. You are not signed in, your role lacks websitetoolbar/use for this class, or the site's design does not include the toolbar. Use the administration instead.
• A button is missing. The toolbar offers only what your role allows on this page; Create here lists only classes you may create there.
• You need to copy, restore from the trash or remove a version. These are done in the administration. The toolbar's link to the administration (if your site has one) opens the same page there.
• A draft is left behind. Leaving the edit form with the browser's Back button keeps the draft. Use the toolbar's buttons, and tidy My drafts now and then.

Related pages #

• Creating and editing content
• What do I do about a "Possible edit conflict"?
• How do I change the order of sub items?
• User manual
• Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.