What You Can (and Can’t) Safely Edit

One of the most important things for a content editor to understand is where their boundaries are. Changing the wrong thing — even accidentally — can break a page’s layout or affect the entire site. This guide gives you a clear line between what’s yours to edit and what belongs to your web admin.

Safe to Edit (Editors)

• Text inside BeaverBuilder modules — headlines, body copy, captions
• Images inside existing image modules — swap the photo, update the alt text
• Button labels and button URLs — change where a button links or what it says
• Links inside text blocks — update href destinations
• Media Library uploads — add new images or documents
• Page titles — with care, and only if your admin confirms it won’t affect the menu

Not Safe — Admin Only

• Row and column settings — background colors, padding, column widths
• Global templates and Saved Rows — editing these changes on every page they appear on
• Navigation menus — adding or removing pages from the top nav
• Theme Customizer settings — fonts, brand colors, header/footer layout
• Plugin settings — form configurations, SEO settings, security
• ACF custom fields — those special data fields outside BeaverBuilder
• CSS classes — any field labeled “CSS Class” in the BeaverBuilder module settings
• User accounts — creating, editing, or deleting users
• Any code — PHP, HTML, CSS, or JavaScript

When in Doubt, Don’t

If you’re looking at a setting and you’re not sure what it does, the safest move is to close the panel without saving and contact your web admin. It’s always better to ask than to guess.

⚠️ Warning: Even small changes to layout settings can affect multiple pages at once — especially if the element is part of a global template. If something doesn’t look right after an edit, use Discard immediately rather than saving.