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Visual editing now works in sidebar previews too

Until now, using Visual Editing meant clicking something in your preview and jumping straight to the record that renders it. It only lived in the iframe inside the plugin's Visual tab.

Now you can turn it on in the sidebar preview in the Content tab as well 👀

Click an element in the preview and you land right on /editor/item_types/<id>/items/<id> within the exact field behind it without hunting through the tree.

A few things worth knowing:

  • It's a per-user toggle, off by default: each editor flips it on for themselves, so it won't change anyone else's setup.

  • When the toggle is on, the sidebar loads the draft-mode preview URL (that's what visual editing needs to hook into).

  • If the selected preview link's frontend doesn't support visual editing, the toggle stays visible but disabled, with a tooltip explaining why.

Under the hood it's the same Content Link machinery that already powers the Visual tab, just wired into the sidebar frame, so refer to the docs to set up Visual Editing.

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