Editing a Blog Post
How to update a saved blog post, change its publishing status, and understand what happens when you delete it.
Open a post from the Posts tab to edit it. You land on the post’s settings screen, the same one used for new posts, but now you are working on a live, scheduled, or saved draft item that may already be visible to visitors. The body is changed separately: choose Edit design in the Post body card to open it in the full-screen design editor.
What You Are Usually Changing
- Post body: choose Edit design, make your changes, then choose Save or Save & quit. The body saves straight onto the post.
- Featured image and excerpt: change these on the settings screen and choose Save post.
- Publishing status: move a draft to published, turn a published post into a scheduled one for a future relaunch, or adjust a scheduled publish date.
- Categories and tags: tidy the way posts are grouped as the blog grows.
- SEO details: refine how the post appears in search results and sharing previews.
A Few Things To Treat Carefully
- Slug: changing the slug changes the post URL. Do that carefully once the post has already been shared or indexed.
- Publish at: check this when switching between draft, published, and scheduled so the timing still makes sense.
- Feature this post: this can change the order visitors see on the archive page.
- Unsaved settings: save the settings screen before choosing Edit design, because changes there aren’t kept when you open the design editor.
Delete Post
Saved posts show a Delete post button at the top of the settings screen, and it asks before deleting. Deleting removes the post itself, not the categories, tags, or media it was using. Images stay in Blog Media until you remove them there separately.
What The Changes Affect
Edits feed straight into the public blog, whether you save them on the settings screen or in the design editor. A published post updates as soon as you save it. A scheduled post waits for its publish date. Category and tag changes affect archive grouping, and featured-image or excerpt changes alter how the post appears on blog cards and previews.
Related articles
- Blog Post Editor: the settings screen and the design editor in more detail.
- Creating a Blog Post: the same flow when starting a new post.
- Blog Media: updating or replacing images used in posts.