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Editing Content on Pages and Editing Text and Images in Elementor

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Your website is built with the Elementor page builder, which lets you see how a page will look as you make changes. This guide covers opening a page in Elementor and editing the text and images on it.

Overview of the process

  1. Open the page in Elementor
  2. Get to know the editor
  3. Edit text
  4. Style text
  5. Edit and style images

Step 1: Open the page in Elementor

To view the pages on your site, go to Pages in the left menu of your dashboard. Pages built with Elementor show the word Elementor next to the title and need to be edited in Elementor. Hover over the page and click Edit with Elementor.

WordPress Pages list with the Edit with Elementor link highlighted on a page row
Edit with Elementor appears when you hover over a page

Step 2: Get to know the editor

On the left are the widgets that can be added to the page, and you simply click and drag one onto the page. The right side is a live preview of how your page will look when published. Under the Globals tab there are saved global elements you can drag on to keep a consistent look across the site.

Elementor editor with the widgets panel on the left and the live page preview on the right
Widgets on the left, live preview on the right

Step 3: Edit text

To edit any existing element, click on it in the preview and its settings appear in the panel on the left. For a text element, the Content tab shows the text itself. Edit it in the panel and the page updates as you type.

Elementor Edit Text Editor panel with the text editing area highlighted
Click a text element and edit it in the left panel

Step 4: Style text

Click the Style tab to change how the text looks: the alignment (left, centre, or right), the colour, and the typography. Use the globe icons to pick from your saved global colours and fonts so everything stays on brand.

Elementor Text Editor Style tab with alignment, text colour, typography and text shadow options
The Style tab controls alignment, colour, and typography

Step 5: Edit and style images

The Image widget works the same way. Click an image on the page, then click the thumbnail under Choose Image to swap it for another from your media library.

Elementor Edit Image panel with the Choose Image control highlighted
Click the thumbnail under Choose Image to swap the picture

The image Style tab has its own options, including alignment, width and height, opacity, and borders.

Elementor Image Style tab with alignment, size, opacity and border options
The image Style tab controls size, opacity, and borders

Quick tips

  • Nothing goes live until you click Publish or Update in the top right
  • Use the global colours and fonts rather than manual values so the site stays consistent
  • If you make a mistake, the history icon in the panel lets you step back through your changes
  • Check the page on mobile using the responsive icons at the top before publishing

Still stuck? Ask a human and you’ll hear back within 24 to 48 hours.

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