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LiveEdit

Edit your website directly on the page

LiveEdit came out of the same conversation happening over and over: a client gets a fast static site, then asks how to change a phone number in the footer without calling a developer. The honest answers were all bad — bolt on a CMS the site does not need, or field a message every time a word changes.

So it is one folder. Copy livedit/ into the site root, open /livedit/, log in, and every heading, paragraph, link and button on the real page becomes clickable. Edits are written straight back into the HTML file, with a backup taken before each save. Nothing else about the site changes: no attributes to add, no markup to rewrite, no database to provision, no npm.

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What it does

Inline text editing

Click any heading, paragraph, link or button and edit it in place. Bold, italic, underline and strikethrough are on the toolbar.

Works with no setup

LiveEdit scans the DOM and marks editable elements itself. Nothing to annotate, nothing to change in the markup — plain HTML, PHP templates, anything that renders as HTML.

Mobile preview

Switch to a phone-sized view and see how an edit lands on mobile without leaving the editor.

Saved to the file itself

Changes are written to the .html file on the server. No database, no cloud service. A backup is written to livedit/backups/ before every save.

Images and blocks (Pro)

Replace an image by clicking it — avif, webp and jpeg are all updated. Move, clone or delete whole sections by dragging them.

Links and source (Pro)

Edit href, target, CSS classes and any other attribute from the toolbar, or open the HTML source editor when that is faster.

Pricing

Free

$0forever
  • ·Inline text editing
  • ·Works on any HTML or PHP page
  • ·Mobile preview
  • ·Unlimited sites

Pro

$49one-time, per domain
  • ·Everything in Free
  • ·Image upload and replace
  • ·Drag, clone and delete blocks
  • ·HTML source editor
  • ·All future Pro updates

Technical details

RequirementsPHP 7.4 or higher
ServersApache and Nginx (Nginx needs one rewrite rule)
Size~80 KB
DatabaseNone
Build stepNone — no npm, no bundler
StorageEdits written to the .html file, backups in livedit/backups/
Securitybcrypt passwords, CSRF tokens on writes, config blocked via .htaccess, 120-minute sessions
Interface languagesEnglish and Russian

Frequently asked questions

PHP 7.4 or higher, on Apache or Nginx. Nginx needs one rewrite rule; the exact config is in the README. No database and no Node.js.

Yes. LiveEdit scans the DOM and marks editable elements itself, so there is nothing to annotate. It works with plain HTML, PHP templates and anything else that renders as HTML.

Directly to the .html file on your server — no database and no cloud. A backup copy is written to livedit/backups/ before every save.

Per domain. One licence activates Pro on one domain including all its subfolders; subdomains count separately. Several LiveEdit copies can run on one domain for different sections.

Passwords are bcrypt-hashed, every write carries a CSRF token, backup and config files are blocked from web access through .htaccess, and sessions expire after 120 minutes. Change the default password on first login.

Because clients kept asking how to change a line of text on a static site without a developer, and every honest answer meant adding a CMS the site did not need. This was the smaller answer.

Need something similar?

I do not only build products for myself. If you have an idea for a tool or a service, tell me about it and I will say what it means for timeline and budget.

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