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.

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, which takes one About page from draft to the public site.
6. Read 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.

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• A page you published stays out of date for visitors after you use Clear Cache and reload.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.

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.
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.
Visitors still see the old version of a published page.	Clear Cache, then 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.

Named page exerciseCreate, preview, publish and check one About page.

The content model in four distinctionsDraft versus workspace, shared versus page-specific, and more.