What will this help me do?
In this guide, we will walk you through how to make changes to any of the written content on the site. We will cover how to edit the existing text, delete or add new content as well as talk about how to insert or remove headers.
Editing existing text
1. Log in to your WordPress website dashboard (if you are unsure how to do so, follow our tutorial here).
2. In the black column, on the left hand side of the dashboard, hover your cursor over the ‘Pages’ menu item, followed by ‘All Pages‘.
3. This will then show a list of all of your websites pages. Hover over the page you’d like to edit, and you will be presented with a list of further options. Next, select ‘Edit with Elementor‘.
4. You will then be presented with the Elementor Page Builder tools, alongside the page you requested to edit.
5. Hover over the text block which you would like to edit. In the top right hand corner, a pencil icon will appear. Click on the icon, and an Edit Text Editor will then be shown in the column to the left.
6. In the green box, under the Heading Text Editor, edit your text accordingly. The changes you make will then dynamically appear in the subsequent text within your page.
7. Once you have made your desired text changes, click on the green Update button. This will then update the page. Failure to click the Update button will result in any amendments or additions being lost.
Adding a Bold style to text
9. Highlight the desired word or sentence you’d like to make bold.
9. Click the ‘B’ button in the text editor. This will then make the style of the selected text bold.
10. Click Update, in the bottom right corner to ensure any changes have been saved.
Adding an underline to text
11. Follow the previous steps above, 1-5, in order to access the relevant page and text editor.
12. Highlight the desired word or sentence you’d like to underline.
13. Click the ‘U‘ button in the text editor. This will then apply an underline to the highlighted text.
14. Click Update, in the bottom right corner to ensure any changes have been saved.
Adding a hyperlink to text
15. Follow the previous steps above, 1-5, in order to access the relevant page and text editor.
16. Highlight the desired word or sentence you’d like to hyperlink, and click the Chain icon at the top, this will then enable you to insert your desired link.
17. Enter the external URL of where you would like to link to.
18. Click the blue arrow to button to apply the change.
19. For internal links (links which are within the same site you are editing), click the Cog Icon to the right, this will then display all internal links which are available.
20. Click on the desired page you would like your link to direct to.
20. In the bottom right hand corner, click ‘Add Link’.
21. Click Update, in the bottom right hand corner to ensure any changes have been saved.
