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The Page Editor

V3 websites give clerks a simplified editor for their pages, so a page looks tidy and matches the website whoever writes it. This page explains what clerks see in it and what to tell them at handover. It applies to both new clients and migrated V2 clients.

The simplified editor arrived in NetWise-V3 1.0.124; the picture tools described below arrived in 1.0.128 to 1.0.130 (3 October 2026), and Add a document in 1.0.172 (2 November 2026). The clerk-facing detail lives in the theme repository at docs/page-editor/clerk-guide.md, which is authoritative.

What the clerk sees

  • One toolbar row: Paragraph, Heading and Sub-heading, bold, italic, the two lists, Link, Add a picture, Add a document, Add a table, undo and redo. No colours, font sizes, centring or underline.
  • When the page has a table, a second row of table buttons: + Row above, + Row below, + Column left, + Column right, − Row, − Column, Headings row and Remove table. They work when the cursor is in a table.
  • Text pasted from Word or an email is tidied as it is pasted, and the page is tidied again each time it is saved.
  • A Tips for a clear page box beside the editor.

Pictures

Each picture sits on a line of its own, beside the words that follow it.

  • Add a picture puts the picture just before the paragraph the cursor is in, so that paragraph sits beside it. The cursor goes back to where the clerk was writing.
  • Clicking a picture shows Beside words, right, Beside words, left, Across the page, Move up, Move down, Edit and Remove. The layout in use is shown pressed. Move up and Move down move the picture one paragraph, heading or table at a time.
  • The theme decides every picture's size; there are no drag handles. A picture less than 1,000 pixels wide can't go across the page, because it would look blurred, so its button reads Too small to go across.
  • A heading typed straight after a picture sits beside it, so a picture can lead a section.
  • If Check pictures before publishing is on, a page with an undescribed picture can't be published. The message tells the clerk to click the picture, press Edit and fill in Description. That description is saved to the Media Library too, so the picture is described wherever it is used. A picture that carries no information is ticked decoration only in the Media Library instead.

Documents

Minutes, agendas, policies, accounts and forms belong in Documents, where residents look for them, so Add a document steers the clerk there rather than onto the page.

  • It opens on Find a document: a search of Documents, showing the newest first. Choosing one links it. The link goes to the document's page, not its file, so when a newer version replaces it, anyone following the old link is told.
  • Upload a new file asks one question: Is this a council record — minutes, a policy, accounts or a form? Yes adds the file to Documents, with a title and document type, and it is listed on the Documents page. No keeps it as an ordinary upload linked from that page only, for a leaflet or a map.
  • If a file kept for the page has a name like minutes, a policy or accounts, the clerk is asked whether to add it to Documents instead. They can still carry on.
  • Words the clerk selected first become the link's words; otherwise the document's title is used. The file type is added in brackets, for example "Cemetery regulations (PDF)".
  • Agendas and minutes for a meeting are added on the meeting, under Meetings, not here.
  • Add a picture turns a PDF or Word file away and points to Add a document.

What clerks can't do

Clerks (the Council Administrator role, and any Editor or Author a council creates) have no Code tab. Pasted HTML could otherwise undo the editor's tidying.

NetWise's own Administrator login keeps the Code tab, and so does the full WordPress editor, which can be switched on at Site Layout → Dashboard → Page editor.

A map or form that has to be pasted in as code is therefore a NetWise job. A YouTube link pasted on a line of its own still embeds the video without code.

Old pages after a migration

Nothing has to be run for pictures on a migrated website. A V2 picture set to align right or left is shown beside the words on that side, and one set to align centre is shown across the page (or at its own size if it is small). Empty spacer lines on old pages are hidden, and disappear for good when the page is next saved.

The tidy-pages step of the migration tidies the old pages' text; see Migrate a V2 Client to V3.

What to tell the clerk at handover

  • Click a picture to choose where it sits — beside the words or across the page — and to move it up or down. The website sizes every picture.
  • A picture needs a description before the page can be published: click it, press Edit and fill in Description.
  • To link a document, select the words and press Add a document. Council records go in Documents; upload to the page only a file that isn't one, such as a leaflet or a map.
  • There is no Code tab. Ask NetWise to add any map or form that comes as code to paste in.

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