Introducing edit mode: Seamless editing in the Webflow Designer

Edit mode in Webflow allows you to edit content without affecting site design or structure. It gives content editors like copywriters, product marketers, or content strategists the power to edit text, images, links, CMS Collection items and more inside the Designer. And not only can you see the edits you make directly on the canvas, you can also manage publishing for the site.
This lesson is a brief introduction to the type of content that can be edited in edit mode as well as how to access it. For more info on edit mode, see Webflow University and the other lessons in this series.
00:00 - Introduction
00:36 - Edit mode
01:15 - Access edit mode
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[@wibletonha]

Great job! 🎉 It was much needed

[@MarcTiedemann]

It's a nice feature and the thinking goes in the right direction. But we'd also like to give clients access to "Comment mode" while in development, as a means of gathering feedback. Currently, as I understand it, this is only possible with an active site-plan or for colleagues only which provides them with access to all projects in the Dashboard (we run an agency account).

[@graceongrid]

So happy to see Sophia in a video! 🙌

[@user-hr9wn7kr5h]

Crazy!! I need it Thank you

[@Greg.Lacoste]

This is great news!!!!!

[@hadiaslam7801]

Webflow rocks🚀

[@turbolike7]

Nice! Would love to see more focus on logic and external databases like supabase.

[@ahmedplayz5649]

Great

[@jdanielortega]

Why aren't these updates available in the Editor? restricting it to the Edit Mode is an odd decision.

[@Rigson]

My guess is that Edit Mode in the Designer is going to replace the Webflow Editor. Hopefully, we'll be able to give clients access to the Edit Mode with the CMS Plan (3 seats).

[@jdanielortega]

@@Rigson That's pretty optimistic, I hope it goes that way because we don't have webflow profiles exclussively for written content creators, and I doubt many companies do. So these updates aren't landing as Webflow thinks.

[@Webflow]

By having designers and editors working in the same space (the Designer) we are able to offer a more robust toolset and also ensure that performance improvements and new features that ship to the Designer will benefit editors as well.

[@christofferfurnes]

@@Webflow it’s very frustrating that Webflow continues to deliberately not answering this important question, that Daniel asked directly in the comment above, among many others. Yes, bringing the Editor into the Designer environment is great, we understand, but as long as our client (the actual users of the Editor in most cases) can’t get access, then it’s a bit pointless. A large part of all Webflow sites is hosted in the webflow developers workspace, asking a client to invest in full Designer access to do even simple editing on their own site is not going to happen for most clients.

[@mtrStriker999]

if I erase the text from a paragraph element, I can no longer select this element. what can I do to select it again as an editor?

[@Webflow]

Hello! If you've accidentally deleted text and cannot select that element anymore, you can undo (Command + Z or Control + Z) to get that element back.

[@cordeirovitor]

This is really confusing. For the people who have a editor role/access on my site, I need to pay for a seat as a team member for them to use the edit mode?

[@Webflow]

Thanks for your question! That's correct - to assign someone the "can edit" site role, they'll need to be a Member of your Workspace.

[@cordeirovitor]

@@Webflow Then you just added an option for a team member to become only editor and added some functionalities to the editor mode. If a team member were assigned as a designer, it would have the same access to the editor mode as before.
When I first saw the title of the video, I thought the editors on the site would be able to use the edit mode on the designer. And a lot of people here thought that too. So, it's misleading and, honestly, frustrating.

[@davidcapuzzo]

this functionality is not new, why the re-release?

[@SanjayTPlays]

This is not the client editor. This allows you to edit CMS and images directly from the page instead of going into each collection manually