Visual Editing changed how our clients publish
Click any text on the page, edit it in place, and see the result before it goes live.
Daniel Okafor1 min read
For years, editing a website meant filling in a form and hoping the page looked right afterwards. Visual Editing in Sanity removes that guesswork. Editors see the real page, click the thing they want to change, and the right field opens beside it.
Why forms alone were never enough
A form shows fields; a page shows meaning. When editors cannot see how a headline wraps or how an image crops, they either publish mistakes or ask a developer to check. Both slow everything down.
- Headlines that broke awkwardly on mobile
- Images cropped in ways nobody expected
- Pages published with blocks in the wrong order
How it works in NexSanity
Every page is wired to the Presentation tool. Open a page in the Studio, and the live site appears next to the document. Draft changes show up instantly, and nothing goes public until someone presses publish.
What changed for our clients
Teams that used to batch changes into a weekly release now publish small improvements every day. Review cycles got shorter because everyone looks at the same page instead of describing it in comments.
Our editors stopped asking “what will this look like?” because they can simply see it.
A few practical tips
- Give every block a clear preview title in the Studio
- Keep a separate, read-only token for previews
- Train editors on drafts and releases in the first week
Written by
Daniel Okafor
Engineering Lead
Daniel builds the systems behind our sites, from content models in Sanity to performance budgets in Next.js. He has shipped more than sixty production sites and still reads every Lighthouse report.
