Live Editor

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Note that this feature is currently part of a beta program. If you are interested in participating and you don't already have access, contact your Conductor Customer Success Manager or Account Manager.

This is an add-on feature in Conductor. To add it to your account, contact your Conductor Customer Success Manager or Account Manager.

Make live changes to pages on your website directly from Conductor. After implementation, Conductor's Live Editor lets you overwrite tags on your pages directly from Conductor without needing to access to your site's content management system. Enter a URL on the Live Editor screen (or access a page in Page Details and click to launch Live Editor) and optimize an on-page element. Then, review past updates to see whether they have made an impact on the page's performance.

Availability Details

By default, users do not have access to Conductor's Live Editor feature. Initially, your account will have a single user that can determine the level of access other users have to the feature. Unlike other user access settings in Conductor, Live Editor's access is determined on a user-by-user basis for each web property you integrate—completely separate from the permissions associated with Conductor user types.

To learn more about setting user permissions for Live Editor, review the Set User Permissions for Live Editor section of the Configure Live Editor article.

After purchasing Live Editor for one or more domains or subdomains, you must implement it for each. To do so, refer to the Configure Conductor's Live Editor article.

Where to find it

Click here ↗️ or follow the path Live > Open the Editor button in Conductor.

You can also access Live Editor from the Page Details report, which you can access throughout Conductor when you click a URL associated with your domain.
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Overview

Configure Live Editor

Before you start using Live Editor, you'll need to configure the feature. Refer to the Configure Conductor's Live Editor article.

Find and Filter Your Pages with Issues

By default, when you access Live Editor from the Live menu, you will see the Pages tab. Here, for a given web property, you can review each page to which you can make Live Editor changes.

From this table, for each page with Live Editor changes you can:

Filter to see which pages have active changes or have no changes.
Filter to see which pages Conductor has detected certain types of issues.
Jump to the relevant Page Details report. Just click the page's URL.
Use the three-dot menu to research the page with Explorer or open the page in a new browser tab.
Open the Live Editor form to review or make more changes.

For each page, you can also see the user who made the most recent Live Editor changes in the Changed by column and see when the most recent Live Editor changes were published in the Publish Date column.

Using Live Editor

Refer to the Using Live Editor article to learn how to use Live Editor to deploy on-page edits to your site.

FAQs

How does Live Editor work?

When someone visits a page you've edited with Conductor's Live Editor, the unique JavaScript tag uses JavaScript to overwrite the elements you've changed as the browser renders the page. This is done without rewriting or affecting the page's HTML. For tags edited with Live Editor, the JavaScript simply takes precedence on the rendered page, regardless of the HTML determined by your content management system (CMS).

Note that in most cases this behavior creates a discrepancy between what appears in the browser and what appears in your CMS. Consider using the ensuing performance of the page after the Live Editor changes to convince the stakeholder or team responsible for making changes in your CMS that the edit you made should be made in the CMS as well. Doing so can help prove the value of your optimizations and align your Live Editor changes with your organization's CMS.

What HTML elements can I edit with Live Editor?

With Conductor's Live Editor feature, you can edit the following on-page elements:

Title tag
Meta description
Header tags
Image alt tags

If you are interested in editing other elements in your content, send your ideas to feedback@conductor.com.

Will the Live Editor JavaScript tag slow page load times?

No. The JavaScript tag Live Editor uses loads asynchronously, so page load times are unaffected.

Does Live Editor work with React and Angular?

Yes, Live Editor works with modern platforms like React and Angular.

What happens to my Live Editor changes if my organization leaves Conductor?

Conductor can provide you with an export of all the changes you've made with Live Editor, so you can make sure each edit can be re-created in your organization's CMS.

What IP addresses does Conductor use when Live Editor crawls my site?

Conductor uses the IP addresses listed below to crawl sites for Live Editor. If your organization maintains an allow list, they will need to allow the following IP addresses:

34.200.122.57/32
34.195.16.0/32
52.0.17.180/32
162.246.178.1/32
162.246.178.2/32
162.246.178.3/32