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Some of your site’s content lives in the CMS (content management system) instead of in the page itself: blog posts, FAQ answers, team members and similar lists. You edit it in a simple form, and it reaches your live site the next time you publish. In this example we add a new question to the Northwind FAQ page (the page we made in Add a New Page).

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Open the CMS

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Click the CMS icon

Open your site in the builder. In the row of icons above the preview, click CMS (the icon that looks like books on a shelf).
The row of icons above the preview with the CMS icon outlined

The CMS icon

The site builder with the CMS icon outlined in the row of icons above the preview

Where the CMS icon is in the builder

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Pick a collection

The CMS opens full width. On the left is a list of your collections, one for each kind of content. Northwind has Origin Stories (its blog posts) and Frequently Asked Questions. Click the one you want to change.
The CMS collections list with Frequently Asked Questions outlined and its one entry, general

The collections on the left

The CMS open full width, with the collections on the left and the FAQ entries on the right

The CMS with the FAQ collection open

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Open an entry

Each collection lists its entries. Use the search box or the All, Draft, Published, Scheduled and Archived filters to find one, then click it. The Northwind FAQ is a single entry named general.

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Make the change

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Edit the fields

The entry opens as a form. Change any field by clicking into it and typing. Lists of items, like the FAQ’s questions, have an Add item button at the bottom.
The FAQ entry form with heading, intro, status and four questions, and the Add item button outlined

The FAQ entry, with Add item outlined

We clicked Add item and filled in a new question and its answer:
A new FAQ item with the question How should I store my coffee? and its answer

The new question and answer

Two seconds after you stop typing, Hiveku saves your edits as a draft. The panel on the right shows Draft saved with the time.
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Click Save

Click Save at the top of the form. If the panel on the right still shows Publish draft, click it and confirm.
The top of the entry with the Save button outlined, and the right panel showing Publish draft and Discard draft

The Save button

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Check the status

The entry is now Published in the CMS. The panel on the right explains what that means: Live on your site after the next deploy.
The right panel showing Published, Published changes aren't live yet, and an outlined Deploy button

Saved, and waiting for the next publish

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Put it on your live site

Under Deploy state, the panel says Published changes aren’t live yet. Click Deploy there. The builder goes back to the preview and opens the Deploy menu, where you click Deploy on the Production row, the same as in Publish Your Changes.
The Deploy menu with Development and Production rows; Production shows 1 file changed

The Deploy menu, opened from the CMS

A few minutes later, the new question is on the live site:
The live Northwind FAQ page showing question 05, How should I store my coffee?, with its answer

The new question on the live FAQ page

Publishing needs permission to publish the site. Owners, admins, managers, members and the Marketing role have it unless your account changed that. Without it, the panel says so instead of showing the Deploy button; ask someone who can publish to do it for you.

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Go back to an earlier version of an entry

Every save is kept. In the panel on the right, click Version history to see each version, who saved it and when. Pick one and click Restore this version to bring it back; this adds a new version on top, so nothing is lost. Then publish as above.
The Version history panel showing version 3, the current one, saved by Jamie Holloway

Version history for the FAQ entry

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Good to know

  • Blog posts written in Marketing. If a post was written in Marketing > Content, its CMS entry shows Also edited in Marketing. Edit it in one place only; see Write and Publish a Blog Post.
  • Branches. The CMS is read-only while you work on a branch. Switch back to Your site to edit content.
  • More about the CMS: Editing Content and Collections.