How to view the site through a visitor's eyes without leaving the admin panel

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Click the little person icon in the top right corner of the header — the site will be shown as to a regular user, without gears and edit buttons. Clicking again returns to administrator mode.

  1. Find the little person icon with a gear in the top right corner of the header (tooltip "Administrator mode. Click to view the site as a user"). On a phone it is a circle next to the menu button.
  2. Click it. The button will turn orange with the label "User", and the page will be redrawn without gears, handles, plus signs and in-place editing.
  3. To go back, click the button again.

In this mode the site is assembled the way a logged-in user without administrator rights sees it: menus, access levels, "Administrators only" sections — all as they see them. "Guests only" sections are still not visible: after all, you are logged in.

The mode is remembered in this browser for a year, separately for each site. Other administrators and visitors notice nothing. Your rights are not lost: if a settings window is open in a neighboring tab, saving there will still work.

If it didn't work

  • I turned the mode on while on a service page — and was sent to the home page. This is by design: service pages are closed to users, and instead of "Access denied" you are taken to the home page.
  • All the edit buttons disappeared and do not come back. "User" mode is on — look at the orange button in the header and click it.
  • I want to see the site as a guest. This mode shows a logged-in user. To see it as a guest, open the site in a private browser window.
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See also

How to add a page to the menuIn the “Site structure” section, click “Add top-level item”, fill in “Name” and, if you wish, “URL (alias)”, and save.What does "Access level" mean for a sectionSix values: from “Everyone” to two different “Nobody” options — one hides the item from the menu, the other closes the page completely. “Registered users only” can be narrowed down…How to create a dropdown menuCreate an item with the address “#” (or “#something”) — it will have no page of its own, but it will gather sub-items under it.How to change the order of items and move an item to another part of the menuOrder — by dragging in the structure tree or directly in the site menu, the part of the menu — with the “Orientation” field in the section window.

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