{"id":1597,"date":"2025-02-05T20:56:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T20:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-ecuad.ca\/support\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2026-10-21T16:21:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T16:21:37","slug":"editing-a-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/editing-a-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Editing a post"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"guide-summary wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In short:<\/strong> Find your post under <strong>Posts<\/strong> in the Dashboard and click <strong>Edit<\/strong>, or open the post on your site and click <strong>Edit Post<\/strong> in the black bar on the top of the page. Make your changes, then click <strong>Update<\/strong> (Classic Editor) or <strong>Save<\/strong> (block editor).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From the Dashboard<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Go to your Dashboard and click <strong>Posts<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Point to the title of the post you want to change. Links appear below it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click <strong>Edit<\/strong>. If you see two links, <strong>Edit (block editor)<\/strong> and <strong>Edit (classic editor)<\/strong>, choose the editor the post was written in.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1548\" height=\"1012\" src=\"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-03-03-at-2.11.07\u202fPM.png\" alt=\"The Posts list with Edit (block editor) and Edit (classic editor) links below a post title\" class=\"wp-image-1997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-03-03-at-2.11.07\u202fPM.png 1548w, https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-03-03-at-2.11.07\u202fPM-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-03-03-at-2.11.07\u202fPM-1024x669.png 1024w, https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-03-03-at-2.11.07\u202fPM-768x502.png 768w, https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-03-03-at-2.11.07\u202fPM-1536x1004.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1548px) 100vw, 1548px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tip:<\/strong> Stick with the editor the post was made in. Opening a block editor post in the Classic Editor can mess up its layout. See <a href=\"\/support\/switching-editors-classic-vs-block\/\">Editors: Classic vs block<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From your site<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>While logged in, open the post on your site.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click <strong>Edit Post<\/strong> in the black bar at the top of the screen.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"53\" src=\"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-03-03-at-12.55.49\u202fPM-1-1024x53.png\" alt=\"The black bar at the top of a post, with the Edit Post link\" class=\"wp-image-1995\" srcset=\"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-03-03-at-12.55.49\u202fPM-1-1024x53.png 1024w, https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-03-03-at-12.55.49\u202fPM-1-300x16.png 300w, https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-03-03-at-12.55.49\u202fPM-1-768x40.png 768w, https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-03-03-at-12.55.49\u202fPM-1.png 1276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Save your changes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Classic Editor:<\/strong> click <strong>Update<\/strong> in the Publish box on the right.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Block editor:<\/strong> click <strong>Save<\/strong> at the top right.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Changes to a published post go live as soon as you save.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Good to know<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You can edit your own posts. Editing other people\u2019s posts depends on your role on the site.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>WordPress keeps earlier versions of your post. Look for <strong>Revisions<\/strong> in the Publish box (Classic Editor) or the post settings sidebar (block editor) to compare or restore one.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To remove a post, point to its title in the Posts list and click <strong>Trash<\/strong>. Trashed posts are deleted for good after 30 days.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related guides<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"\/support\/making-a-new-post\/\">Making a new post<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"\/support\/adding-images-to-a-post\/\">Adding images to a post<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In short: Find your post under Posts in the Dashboard and click Edit, or open the post on your site and click Edit Post in the black bar on the top of the page. Make your changes, then click Update (Classic Editor) or Save (block editor). From the Dashboard Tip: Stick with the editor the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2354,"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions\/2354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}