Writing & Publishing
Whether you're writing an Article, a Page, or a Project, you land in the same editor — a familiar rich-text experience, plus a set of sidebar panels for everything around the writing itself.
The writing area
By default you get a WYSIWYG editor — you type, format with a toolbar (bold, italic, headings, text color, links, lists, quotes, images, and more), and see the finished result as you go, the same way you'd write in any modern word processor. No code required.
If you're more comfortable writing in Markdown, you can switch to it per item — a small toggle swaps the toolbar for a plain-text editor that understands Markdown formatting instead. Its toolbar covers the same ground as the WYSIWYG one, including text color, so you're not giving anything up by writing in plain text — see Markdown Syntax Reference for the exact syntax if you'd rather type it than click it. Your content isn't lost switching between the two; it converts along with you.
Adding structure and media
The toolbar isn't limited to plain text. You can drop in image galleries (see Image Galleries), pull quotes, callout boxes for tips or warnings, buttons, and a few other building blocks — all inserted through the toolbar's picker rather than by memorizing any syntax.
Setting up the sidebar
Alongside the writing area, a sidebar covers everything that isn't the body text itself:
- Content — your featured image, category, tags, status, and publish date/time.
- SEO — the title and description search engines and social shares will show, if you want something different from the automatic default.
- Custom Fields — extra structured details specific to your site, if any have been set up (see Custom Fields).
Saving, drafting, and scheduling
You don't need to publish immediately to start writing — anything you begin is automatically saved as a real draft as soon as autosave kicks in (a few minutes, by default), with its own permanent link and edit history from that very first save. Nothing about a draft is temporary or fragile; if you close the tab and come back next week, everything is exactly where you left it.
When you're ready, a Status dropdown in the sidebar controls what happens to the item:
- Published — live on the site.
- Scheduled — pick a future date and time, and the item goes live on its own the moment that time arrives. Choosing this option reveals the date/time field right underneath. No need to be at your computer when it happens.
- Draft — keep working on it without it appearing on the site at all.
- Unpublished — for something that was already live and needs to come back offline. Nothing is deleted — your content, its history, and its link all stay intact, ready to go live again whenever you choose.
The button that saves your changes reads its label from whichever status is selected — Publish, Schedule, Update, or Save — so it's always clear what clicking it is about to do.
Checking your work before it's public
The Preview button opens your content exactly as visitors will see it, using your site's actual theme — including changes you haven't saved as the live version yet. It's the fastest way to catch a formatting issue or a missing image before anyone else sees it.
Made a mistake? You're covered
Every save keeps a copy of what came before it. If a change you made yesterday turns out to be wrong, or you simply liked an earlier version better, you can pull up the full history of any item and roll back to an earlier version in a couple of clicks — see Trash & Revisions for the full picture, including how deleted content can come back too.