What Is Editable In Tina

What Is Editable In Tina

Files: src/content/, src/config/, src/i18n/, tina/ · Skill level: Beginner

Keep npm run dev running, open http://localhost:4321/admin/, and click Enter Edit Mode. You need no account and no password. Open the menu at the top left, then pick an entry, a language folder, and a file. Tina has the full guide. Everything below exists in English, French, and Arabic, and an edit changes one language.

Give a page about five seconds after it opens, because a page with many sections loads a form for each one. Saving a large form, such as a homepage, can take up to half a minute, so wait for it to finish before you leave the page.

Where Each Page Is Edited

The last column lists the blocks in the page’s own form. Fill one in to change that section on this page only. Every other section comes from Section defaults.

The form of Other pages lists every block those pages can use. A block only works on a page that shows that section.

Most page forms also have Main button on this page, Header layout, Footer layout, Robots, Leave out of llms.txt and Markdown copies, and Draft (not published).

New Entries

Use Create New in Services, Service areas, Industries, Projects, Careers, Blog, Team, Reviews, and Authors. The header menu doesn’t pick up a new service or area, so add its link in Menus and footer columns. See Menus.

A new entry with only a title won’t break the site, and it builds. Its card or page shows what you filled in, and images and other fields stay empty until you add them, so fill them in before you publish.

Sections

Section defaults holds the shared content of each section, 36 in all, in each language. A change there shows on every page that uses the section, unless the page has filled in its own block.

To hide a section, use its Enable field. To change its look, use Options > Layout. /elements/ previews every layout.

Site-Wide Content

Homio has four header layouts and four footer layouts. Choose them in Site settings > Settings > Layout, or per page with Header layout and Footer layout. Settings also holds Sticky Header, Navigation Button, Navigation Secondary Link, Mobile Action Bar, Copyright, Subscription, Theme Credit, Page Actions, Smooth Scroll, Color Scheme, Cookie Consent, Estimator, Booking, Contact Form Action, and Contact Form Provider.

If You Clear A Field

In a page’s form, a field you never filled uses the default. A field you clear is saved empty, which hides that text or image on that page.

Tina can’t bring the default back by itself. To get the text back, do either of these:

• Copy it from Section defaults into the field.
• Remove the empty line from the page’s file in src/content/ with a text editor.

What The Preview Doesn’t Update

The header, the menus, and values from Site settings, such as contact details, don’t change while you type. They update when you save. Some Site settings also need npm run dev restarted, and the note on the field says so.

These have no click-to-edit outline, so change them in their forms: the header and menus, values from Site settings, images with no alt field, categories and tags, and one-word options. Online with Tina Cloud there are forms only.

When Tina saves, it removes comments and rewrites Markdown in its own style. Your words and values stay. If you also edit content files by hand, run npm run tina:audit.

What Stays In Code

• Which sections a page has, and their order: the route in src/pages/[...lang]/. You can hide a section with its Enable field.
• New sections, new page routes, and new layouts. Then run npm run tina:generate so the editor offers them.
• Colors and type scale (src/styles/theme.css), fonts (src/config/fonts.json), and the logo mark (src/lib/brandMark.ts).
• The list of languages. See Internationalization.
• The price formula, booking steps, and area matching in src/lib/. The rates and settings they read are in Pricing and Site settings.
• The icons themselves. Icon names are text you can edit.

Versions And Testing

This edition is tested on Astro 7.4.2 and Node 22, with tinacms 3.15.1, @tinacms/cli 4.0.4, and @tinacms/astro 0.8.0. They are pinned in package.json. The live preview uses experimental features of @tinacms/astro, so test it before you upgrade.

We have not run online editing against a live Tina Cloud project. Try one save on a copy of your site before you rely on it.

Do It With AI

I use the Tina edition. Tell me where to edit [TEXT OR SETTING] in /admin/: the entry, the language
folder, the file, and the field. If it comes from Section defaults, say which pages will change,
and how to change it on one page only. Don't change any files.