Edituno – Live Frontend Block Editor

Description

Let your content team edit text, links, buttons and images on the front end, with locks, approvals and a site-wide changelog built in.

Why Edituno?

Most content changes on a WordPress site are small: a heading needs updating, a sentence needs rewording, an image needs swapping, a button needs to point somewhere else. None of that requires wp-admin, a page builder, or a training session — it just requires clicking the thing and changing it.

Edituno lets your team do exactly that. Click any paragraph, heading, link, button, image or quote citation on the live page, edit it in place, and save — without ever opening the block editor.

It’s built on the WordPress Interactivity API, ships with no build step, and saves through a server-side REST endpoint that parses and re-serializes the block, so the block markup you started with is the block markup you end up with.

At a glance

• ✍️ Click any paragraph or heading to edit it inline, right on the live page
• 🔗 Add, edit or remove links on your text without leaving the page
• 🖼️ Replace images from the media library, set alt text, or remove an image, all on the front end
• 🔘 Edit button text and links from the front end too
• 💬 Edit a quote’s citation directly on the page
• 🧱 Block markup, styling and settings are fully preserved on save
• 🔒 Lock a whole page from front-end editing with a single checkbox
• 🧩 Lock individual blocks or whole sections, including everything nested inside them, enforced on save
• ✅ Optional per-role approval queue for edits before they go live
• 🔔 Email and/or Slack-compatible webhook notifications on publish or submission
• 📊 A site-wide, searchable, exportable log of every front-end edit ever made
• 🚪 Optionally restrict chosen roles to front-end-only editing, with no wp-admin access at all

🎯 Built for teams, not just solo editors

Plenty of inline editors let one person click text and change it. Edituno is built around the reality that more than one person edits your site, and that not everyone should be able to touch everything or publish without a check:

• Site changes log. Every published edit — text, links, images, buttons, quote citations — is recorded with who changed it, what page it was on, which block type, and when. It lives in one searchable, filterable, exportable screen, not scattered across post revisions.
• Locking, not just permissions. Beyond “can this user edit this post,” you can lock a specific block, a whole section, or an entire page from front-end editing — regardless of who’s logged in. Locks apply to everything nested inside, and they’re enforced when the save request hits the server, not just hidden in the UI.
• Approval workflow. Require selected roles to submit changes for review instead of publishing immediately. Approvers are configurable too, so the roles that submit and the roles that approve don’t have to be the same people. Administrators always publish straight away.

🎛️ Off until you turn it on

Edituno doesn’t change how your site looks or behaves until someone actively asks for the editing UI. A Edituno item in the admin bar switches it on or off for the current user — off by default — so browsing stays exactly as it was until a logged-in editor opts in. Visitors never see it, and the assets behind it only load for users who could edit that specific page anyway.

💡 What it’s for

These are the edits Edituno is built to make fast:

• Fixing a typo or updating a stale sentence on a service page
• Rewriting a heading after a campaign or offer changes
• Swapping an image or updating its alt text
• Repointing a button or text link to a new destination
• Updating a pull-quote’s citation
• Letting a client or teammate make any of the above without a wp-admin walkthrough — and without you worrying about what else they might touch

⚙️ How It Works

1. Install and activate Edituno.
2. Go to Edituno → Settings to choose which block types are editable and set up locking, approvals and notifications.
3. Open a page on the front end while logged in, click Edituno in the admin bar, and turn it on.
4. Click any supported paragraph, heading, link, button, image or quote citation and edit it in place.
5. Save. The change is written back into the existing block markup and appears in Site changes.

🧱 Supported content

Text blocks — editable inline, configurable in Settings:

• Paragraph (core/paragraph) and Heading (core/heading) — on by default
• Verse (core/verse), Preformatted (core/preformatted), List item (core/list-item), Code (core/code) — optional, turned on per site

Handled separately, editable out of the box for any eligible user:

• Images (core/image) — replace from the media library, set alt text, or remove
• Buttons (core/button) — edit label and link
• Quote citations (core/quote) — edit the citation text

🔒 Locking, two ways

• Whole page — a single checkbox in the “Front-End Editing” box on the page/post editor takes an entire page out of front-end editing.
• Block or section — use a block’s own Lock option (the padlock in its Options menu) or add the edituno-no-edit CSS class in its Advanced panel. Either one locks that block and everything nested inside it. Locks are checked again on the server when a save request comes in, so they can’t be bypassed by editing the page directly.

✅ Approval, on your terms

Approval is on by default for every role except Administrator, so nothing goes live unreviewed on a fresh install. Untick roles in Edituno → Settings to let them publish immediately; the roles that stay ticked have their edits (text, images, buttons, quote citations) held in a Pending changes screen instead of going live. You choose which roles need approval and, separately, which roles are allowed to approve or reject. Administrators always publish immediately, regardless of the settings above.

🔔 Notifications

Get an email and/or a Slack-compatible webhook message whenever an edit is published or submitted for approval, so nothing lands without anyone noticing.

📊 Site changes log

Under the Edituno admin menu, the Site changes screen lists every front-end edit made anywhere on the site: what changed, the before/after values, which page and block type, who made it, and when. Filter by user, page, block type and date, search across entries, and export the current view to CSV.

🚪 Front-end-only roles

Restrict chosen roles to editing exclusively from the front end, with wp-admin access blocked entirely. Useful for clients or contributors who should only ever touch content through the guided front-end flow.