Pages: Finding & Editing Existing Pages

By the end of this module you will be able to find any page on your website and open it in the right editor — and recognize the two different “edit” doors Avada gives you.

• Open the Pages list and find a specific page quickly
• Understand Published vs Draft status
• Open a page for editing — and recognize the Avada Builder when it appears
• Know the two editing doors: Edit Page (back-end) and Edit Live (front-end) — and which one this training uses
• Back out of an edit screen without saving anything

1. From the dashboard, click Pages in the left menu. Every page of your website is listed by title.
2. Finding the right page: use the search box at the top-right of the list, or sort by title. The page powering your homepage is usually called “Home”. If two pages have similar names, check the status column: Published pages are live for visitors; a — Draft label means it is unpublished and invisible to the public.
3. The safest way to find the right page: browse your live website to the page you want to change, then use the black admin bar at the top — it has edit links for that exact page. No guessing in the list.
4. The two edit doors — this matters:
   • Edit Live — opens the page looking exactly as visitors see it, with editing controls laid over top. This is Avada Live, and it is the door this training uses from Module 5 onward.
   • Edit Page — opens the back-end editor, where the same page appears as labelled boxes instead of the real design. Nothing wrong with it — but as a beginner, use Edit Live, where you can see what you are doing.
5. Click Edit Live now, just to look. The page loads with a toolbar of controls — this is the Avada Builder interface you will learn next module.
6. Backing out without saving: close the browser tab, or use the toolbar’s exit option. If you accidentally changed something, Avada will ask whether to save before leaving — choose Don’t Save and nothing you did counts. Remember: nothing is permanent until you deliberately save. (Saving properly is Module 9.)

• Find your “About” page (or any page you know) two ways: via the Pages list search, then by browsing the live site and using the admin bar.
• Open it with Edit Live, look around without clicking anything in the page, and exit without saving.
• Check the Pages list for any Draft pages, so you know what is live and what is not.

Common mistakes to avoid

• Editing the wrong page. Similar titles (“Services” vs “Our Services — old”) trip everyone. The browse-then-admin-bar route from step 3 makes it impossible.
• Using Quick Edit from the Pages list. It edits titles and URLs, not content, and changing a page’s URL breaks links to it. Skip it entirely.
• Changing a page’s title or slug casually. The title may appear in menus and the slug is the page’s address. Content edits: yes. Title or address edits: ask GM&F first.
• Clicking Trash on a page. Trashed pages vanish from the live site instantly. If a page seems unneeded, tell GM&F instead.
• Panicking inside the editor. You opened it; you can always leave without saving. The exit is always there.