Editing in CloudCannon allows anyone on your team to contribute to your website, regardless of technical expertise.
Articles in this section are useful for anyone who creates, edits, or manages content on your website.
If this is your first time creating a site on CloudCannon, or you need a refresher, check out our Editing in CloudCannon guide!
In the Editing section of our User documentation, we cover:
- Manage your files — Learn how to manage your website files through CloudCannon
- Using Inputs — Learn how to edit file data that isn't the main body of content
Let’s briefly introduce a few of these topics.
Manage your files#
Your website is made up of several files, from layout and developer files that control what each page looks like, to content files that control the text and images on a webpage. With CloudCannon, you can update your website content files easily.
For a more in-depth explanation of how to make changes to your content, please read our documentation:
Using Inputs#
In CloudCannon, you can use Inputs to edit file data that isn't the main body of content (e.g., titles, descriptions, authors, tags, etc.). These Inputs appear in the sidebar of the Visual Editor CloudCannon's visual editing interface provides a user-friendly way of updating your website files on an interactive preview of your webpage. You can navigate around your website preview using links/buttons, as you would on the live version, and edit your content inline on the page, or with the data panel or sidebar. What you see in the Visual Editor is what your website visitors will see on your live webpages. CloudCannon's rich text editor for clean, distraction-free editing of content-heavy files. This editing interface is most useful for Markdown and MDX files, with or without Front Matter. CloudCannon's editing interface for managing structured data files and the Front Matter of markup files. The Data Editor is most useful for YAML, TOML, JSON, CSV, and TSV file types, and Markdown or MDX files with Front Matter. This editing interface also doubles as the sidebar and data panels in the Visual Editor and Content Editor.Visual Editor
Content Editor
Data Editor
For a more in-depth explanation of how to use Inputs for editing file data, please read our documentation:
- What are Inputs?
- What is an Array Input?
- What is a Boolean Input?
- What is a Code Input?
- What is a Color Input?
- What are Date and Time Inputs?
- What is a File Input?
- What is a Number Input?
- What is an Object Input?
- What is a Rich Text Input?
- What is a Select Input?
- What is a Text Input?
- What is a URL Input?