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title: "The visual editor · Leiho docs"
description: "What editors get, and Leiho as the back office."
url: https://leiho.dev/docs/visual-editor
lang: en
updated: 2026-11-04
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# The visual editor

What editors get, and Leiho as the back office.

- Live preview while typing, with character counters where fields have a limit.
- Undo / redo (Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+Shift+Z) and Ctrl+S to save.
- Local drafts: unsaved changes survive a closed tab, and are offered back on return.
- Page composition: add, reorder, duplicate and remove flexible content blocks.
- Create, duplicate and trash pages without leaving the editor, and change their status (draft, pending review, published, private) from the toolbar.
- Conflict protection: if someone else changed the page meanwhile, Leiho refuses to overwrite it and offers to reload.
- Change history: every saved change, with its before and after values and its author.
- Deep links: "Edit with Leiho" in the admin bar opens the current page.

## Leiho is the back office

Click **Leiho** in wp-admin and it opens full screen: the WordPress menu, admin bar, footer and other plugins' notices are gone (on this page only), replaced by Leiho's own navigation. Install WordPress and Leiho, and editors never need to leave it.

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| **Home** | Recent changes with before / after values, connection and publishing status, quick links. |
| **Visual editor** | The site as visitors see it, editable in place. |
| **Collections** | All your content in three panes, whatever its engine: content types on the left (WordPress pages and posts, ACF or theme post types, Leiho collections and single pages, with their entry counts), the entries of the selected type in the middle (search, status filter, sort, create, duplicate, publish or unpublish, trash and restore), and the selected entry edited in place on the right with every field — including WordPress's own: content (rich text editor with headings, lists, links, quotes and images from the media library), excerpt, URL slug, categories, tags and other public taxonomies (chips with search; new tags are created on save), author, publish date, parent and order, depending on what the type supports — (undo / redo, local drafts, conflict protection, history), its status, **Save**, and a link to the visual editor or the live page when it has one. The **Fields** tab of a Leiho collection opens the schema builder (administrators, see below); ACF types point to ACF and offer **Import into Leiho** (see [Import from ACF](https://leiho.dev/docs/import-from-acf)). |
| **Media** | The media library: grid, search, upload (button or drag and drop), alternative text. |
| **Publishing** | Deployment history. The **Publish** button in the top bar shows when changes aren't published yet. |
| **Settings** | Everything Leiho needs (administrators). |

Editors and authors land in Leiho right after logging in (a setting, on by default); administrators keep the WordPress dashboard and get a **Back to WordPress** link. The navigation collapses, works with the keyboard, and becomes a drawer on small screens; the light or dark theme is shared with the editor and remembered per user on the server, so every page opens directly in it (dark by default). Old addresses (`admin.php?page=leiho-settings`, `leiho-editor`, …) redirect to their view.

Content written with the WordPress block editor is never rewritten by Leiho: its **Content** field shows a read-only preview and an **Open in the WordPress editor** link (the server refuses to overwrite it), while every other field of the entry stays editable. Classic content is saved in the classic editor's format.

Updated November 4, 2026[Something unclear on this page? Tell us →](https://github.com/pixelersagency/leiho/issues/new?title=Docs%3A%20The%20visual%20editor)