Editing & design
Know which kind of theme you are editing
Identify the theme’s editing system before looking for a tutorial’s missing controls.
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Give pages a clear structure and a readable layout.
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Are you editing one page or its template?
Recognize shared layout changes before a one-page edit spreads across the site.
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Use List View when a layout becomes hard to select
Select the correct container before moving or styling a complex section.
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Headings should describe the page, not decorate it
Separate a heading’s structural level from the size used to display it.
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Choose Group, Row or Stack for the arrangement you need
Choose containers by direction, grouping and how the content should wrap.
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Design columns that still make sense on a phone
Preserve reading order when side-by-side content becomes a vertical sequence.
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Why a wide image can still look narrow
Trace the parent containers before changing an image that refuses to become wider.
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Create space without empty paragraphs
Use padding, margin and block gaps to express relationships instead of inserting blank text.
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