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Edit from the live site

Browsing your published site and spot something to fix? The admin bar connects your console edit access to the live site, so any page you're looking at is one click from its screen in the besigner.

Rolling out

The admin bar is a release-flagged feature, currently being rolled out — it may not be available on your site yet. Nothing needs configuring; it switches on per-workspace as the rollout proceeds.

Call it up​

On any page of your published site, either:

  • add ?aglyn-edit to the URL — handy as a shareable habit, or
  • press Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + E.

A small Edit this site pill appears in the bottom-right corner. Visitors never see it — the pill only appears when you ask for it, and the bar itself only renders for accounts that actually hold edit access.

Connect your access​

Click the pill. Because your published site and the console live on different domains, a small console popup opens to confirm it's really you: it checks your console sign-in and your role on this site, then reports "Connected — edit access confirmed" and closes itself. If you're not signed in to the console, it says so and waits for you to sign in and try the shortcut again; an account without edit rights gets a plain "No edit access".

Edit access means what it does everywhere else: a site admin or editor, or a workspace owner, admin, or editor. Viewers don't get a read-only bar — they simply don't get one.

The bar​

Once connected, a slim dark bar sits along the bottom of the page:

  • the site name, and the name of the screen serving the current page;
  • Edit this page — opens the besigner for exactly that screen, in a new tab (shown whenever the page maps to a routed screen);
  • Open console — the site's dashboard;
  • × hides the bar for the rest of the page view.

The bar follows you as you browse — navigate to another page and it re-resolves which screen you're on.

Good to know​

  • The connection lasts for the browser tab (and tokens expire after 30 minutes on their own) — closing the tab forgets it, and the site sets no new cookies.
  • The bar is a convenience surface only: it never changes what the page serves, and all real editing still happens in the console with your normal permissions.