• Quick Start
  • Download and Install
  • Create a Site
  • Editing your Site
    • Edit Mode GUI
  • Manipulate Content
    • Edit Existing Content
    • Create New Content
    • Move Content in a Page
  • Preview and Publish your Work
  • Move Content Between Pages
  • Delete Content
  • Use a Content item in many places at the same time
  • Control the Rights
  • Managing Sites
  • More Detailed Publication
  • Going Further With Interactive Features
    • Insert a Google Map
    • Add a Poll

Editing your Site

A few words about “Modes” - in Jahia a “Mode” is a particular way of calling and displaying a web project. Depending on the chosen Mode, Jahia conducts different security checks, applies restrictions and will provide editing tools or not. By default, the Mode appears in the URL but is masked for visitors on production servers for obvious SEO reasons.

There are four main Modes:

• Render Mode: this mode displays the content requested in the URL and nothing else. Typically, when a visitor of your website will browse your pages, it will be in the Render Mode, even if he/she does not know it.
• Contribute Mode: this Mode displays a page with a very light and simplified editing interface. We will not look at this mode in this Quick Start Guide as we want to quickly discover some advanced features.
• Edit Mode: this Mode displays a page with a rich editing interface. This is the Mode we will use in this Quick Start Guide in order to discover Jahia. When working in Edit Mode, you work on staging versions of your content. Thus, until you decide to publish your work, all the work you do in Edit Mode does not impact the Render Mode and the visitors continue to browse your websites or web applications like they were published the last time.
• Studio Mode: this Mode is a bit special as it works only with the Templates. Dedicated guides explain this part in details; we won’t look at the Studio in this Quick Start Guide.