Working with Content: Editing Tools
Working with Content: Editing Tools
What's a WYSIWYG Editor?
GingerFeet uses a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) text editor called CKEditor. When your page is in Edit mode, the WYSIWYG editor is available in the Body field. This editor allows you to edit your page or item with the same type of toolbar buttons you are familiar with in other word processing applications.

Cut, Copy, and Paste Text in the Body Field
While in Edit mode for a page or item, in the Body field:
To cut:
Highlight the text or image you wish to cut and click the Cut icon, or use the keyboard shortcut:
On a Windows PC: Ctrl+X
- On a MAC: Cmd+X
To copy:
Highlight the text or image you wish to copy and click the Copy icon, or use the keyboard shortcut:
- On a Windows PC: Ctrl+C
- On a MAC: Cmd+C
To paste:
Place the cursor in the content area to place the copied information and click the Paste icon, or use the keyboard shortcut:
- On a Windows PC: Ctrl+V
- On a MAC: Cmd+V
If you are pasting text from your current website or from an application like Microsoft Word, it is important to use the Paste As Plain Text or Paste from Word feature on your CKEditor. Websites and text editing applications add formatting that may make your site content look wonky! This feature eliminates that formatting and lets your theme do it's work. They are the second and third Paste commands from the left. If you have a mound of text to paste into a page, you can also use the Remove Formatting feature on your CKEditor. On CKEditor, it is located in the top row, fifth section, second button from the left. Paste your text, then select all of it and click on Remove Formatting.
Change the Title of a Page
- Navigate to the page you wish to edit. You'll see two links at the top of the page: View & Edit.
- Click on the Edit link. The page now opens in Edit mode.
- In the Title field (with red asterisk), type in your new title.
This will modify the title on the page.
- In the Menu Link Title field, type in the same new title to match.
This will modify the title on the menu.
- Scroll to the bottom of the page.
- Click the Save button to save your changes.
Turn On and Off (Publish/Unpublish) GingerFeet Pre-Built Pages
There are approximately 75 pre-built pages with your GingerFeet subscription. You can turn these pages on and off at your discretion by Publishing and Unpublishing them.
We recommend that you do not delete pages. By enabling or disabling, pages continue to be available for future use.
Working with Content- Publish/Unpublish
Working with Content- Publish/Unpublish
Publish Content
To Publish your content:
- In the Administration Menu across the top of your page, choose Content Management → Content Management Filter. The page now shows a list of all your site content.
- Click the Title heading. This will sort your content in alphabetical order and make it easier to find your page.
- Next to each page or node, there is a checkbox under the Title heading.
- Click the checkbox next to the page or node you wish to publish.
- Directly above your site content is an Update options drop-down menu.
- From the drop-down menu, choose Publish (the default).
- Click the Update button.
- Published: This determines if site visitors can see this content.
- Promoted to front page: This will post the content to the front page of your site.
- Make Sticky: If checked, this item will stick to the top of the list.

If unpublished, the content will not appear!
Unpublish Content
Using the Publish options you are able to work on page content and leave it unpublished to prevent the public from seeing it. You can also unpublish a completed page in order to keep it for later use (archive it) instead of deleting it.
Deleting an item is a permanent action. You cannot recover deleted work.
To Unpublish a page or node:
- In the Administration Menu across the top of your page, choose Content Management → Content Management Filter. The page now shows a list of all your site content.
- Click the Title heading. This will sort your content in alphabetical order and make it easier to find your page.
- Next to each page or node, there is a checkbox under the Title heading.
- Click the checkbox next to the page or node you wish to unpublish.
- Directly above your site content is an Update options drop-down menu.
- From the drop-down menu, choose Unpublish.
- Click the Update button.
Your page is no longer viewable by your visitors.
You can publish it again anytime by following the steps under Publish Content.
Find & Publish an Item That Has Not Been Published
- In the Administration Menu across the top of your page, choose Content Management → Content Management Filter.
- Choose to filter your content by Node Status and choose Unpublished from the dropdown list.
- Click the Filter button. Only unpublished pages will be listed.
- Follow Steps 3-7 from the Publish or Unpublish sections above.
