# Start As An Editor

Use this page when someone has invited you to edit a Capell site that is already installed. You do not run Composer, build assets, set up queues or manage hosting. Those belong to the developer or administrator, who follow [the developer start](https://docs.capell.app/start-here/#i-install-or-build-a-site).

## Your checklist

1. Get three things from your administrator: the admin address (normally the site's address followed by `/admin`), your login details, and which site and which role you have.
2. Open the admin address and log in.
3. Check the **site switcher** in the top-left corner and select the site you were invited to edit. Everything you edit is scoped to the selected site.
4. Look in the sidebar for **Pages**. Which items you see depends on your role.
5. Do one permitted task. The best first one is [the named page exercise](https://docs.capell.app/start-here/first-page-exercise/), which takes one About page from draft to the public site.
6. Read [Admin interface](https://docs.capell.app/core/admin/interface/) for the rest of the screens when you are ready.

## Two kinds of progress, kept separate

If your site shows a Welcome Tour with a Getting started checklist, remember two things:

- **Your tour progress is personal.** Completing or restarting the tour affects only you.
- **Checklist items describe the installation, not you.** The checklist checks whether the Sites and Pages tables contain any rows and whether an enabled non-default theme exists, so "Create your first page" can show as done because someone else made a page. See [Welcome Tour](https://docs.capell.app/packages/welcome-tour/).

Treat the checklist as a sign of whether the site is set up, and use the exercise to learn your own tasks.

## When to ask your administrator

Ask your administrator, with the address you used and what you saw, when:

- You cannot log in, or `/admin` returns a 403. Roles or access were not assigned.
- The dashboard loads but **Pages** or **Settings** is missing. Either your role does not allow it or the packages were not registered.
- You have no site in the site switcher.
- A page you published stays out of date for visitors after you use **Clear Cache** and reload.
- A page you published never appears at all. A queue worker may not be running.

The developer fixes for these are in [Troubleshooting](https://docs.capell.app/core/operations/troubleshooting/#admin-access).

## Which recovery tool do I need?

| Problem | Use | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| I saved a change to a page and want it back. | **Page History** on the page. | Every save is revisioned. Rollback adds a new entry. See [Page event history](https://docs.capell.app/core/development/page-event-history/). |
| I imported content and it went wrong. | **Recovery Center**. | Optional, and only works when the Migration Assistant package is installed. It covers import sessions, not everyday page edits. See [Recovery Center](https://docs.capell.app/core/admin/recovery/). |
| Visitors still see the old version of a published page. | **Clear Cache**, then [Published pages still show old content](https://docs.capell.app/core/operations/troubleshooting/#published-pages-still-show-old-content). | The page content is right in Admin, but stale public output is being served. |
| I want a page to stop being public. | **Unpublish** on the page. | See [Preview and publish](https://docs.capell.app/core/getting-started/create-your-first-page/#preview-and-publish). |

[Named page exercise](https://docs.capell.app/start-here/first-page-exercise/)
  [The content model in four distinctions](https://docs.capell.app/understand-core/model-and-terms/)