A tour of the editor

What each part of the ContentMetric editor does, from the left rail to the AI assistant and the Publish button.

Updated 22 Sept 2026

Opening a site from your dashboard takes you straight into the editor. Here is what you are looking at.

The far left rail

This is how you move between the main areas of your site.

  • Dashboard is a summary of the site.
  • Site is the visual editor, where you design and arrange pages.
  • Content is where blog posts and other written entries live.
  • Data is where tables live, including the entries your forms collect.
  • Media is your images and files.
  • AI is the AI workspace, with your model settings and a log of what the AI has done.
  • Users is the people who can sign in to this site.

At the top of the rail is the site menu. It has Settings for this site, and a Sites item that takes you back to the list of all your sites.

Site settings cover this one site: General (its name, description, favicon, language, business details, the plan it runs on, and the danger zone for handing it over or deleting it), then Languages, Domains, Redirects, Versions, Forms, Integrations, Custom code and AI & code. Anything about you, your workspace, your plan or your receipts is in your dashboard under Settings instead. See Workspace settings.

Inside the Site editor

Down the left edge of the Site editor is a second, narrower strip of buttons. Each one opens a panel:

  • Explorer lists your pages and the parts each page is made of.
  • Framework holds your colours, fonts and spacing.
  • Selectors and Dependencies are for more advanced styling and code. You can ignore both to begin with.
  • SEO opens the search settings for the page you are on.
  • Versions shows earlier saved versions of the site.
  • AI assistant opens the chat panel where you tell the AI what to build.

The middle of the screen is your page, shown as visitors will see it. The panel on the right shows the settings for whatever you have selected.

Saving and publishing

Your changes are saved as a draft as you work. Visitors do not see them until you press Publish at the top of the screen. See Publish your site.

Common questions

Where did my changes go? They are in the draft. Press Publish to put them on the live site.

How do I get back to my other sites? Open the site menu at the top of the far left rail and choose Sites.

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