Can I just edit the text or swap a photo right there on the page?

Some fixes are too small to be worth a conversation — a misspelled word, a stale price, the wrong photo at the top of a page. In Bernard's workshop you don't have to describe those to anyone. You double-click the text and type, or click the photo and swap it, the way you would in any ordinary editor.

Editing text in place

  1. Double-click a heading, paragraph, button label or link on the preview — or hover it and click its Edit text chip. The words become editable right there on the page.
  2. Type your change. Any bold, italic or linked text already inside stays intact — you're editing the words, not rebuilding the markup around them. Pasted text comes in as plain text, so a paste from elsewhere never drags in someone else's formatting.
  3. Save or cancel. Click anywhere else, or press Cmd/Ctrl+Enter, and it's saved. Press Esc and it snaps back to exactly what it said before — nothing is kept.

There's no "send" button and no reply to wait for. The change commits to your draft the instant you save it, with its own line in your version history — "You edited the [heading/paragraph/…]" — so anyone who checks the draft later can see exactly what happened and when.

Swapping an image in place

  1. Click a photo on the preview, then choose Swap from the small actions beside it (see Point at exactly what you want changed for how pointing and selecting work in general).
  2. Pick a replacement. Your Media Library opens as a picker — search or page through what's already on your site. This picker only chooses from photos already in your library; if the one you want isn't there yet, add it first (see Add a photo to any page) and it'll show up here.
  3. Done. The photo updates on the preview immediately and the swap is committed to your draft — "You replaced the [image]" — with no chat exchange required. For the equivalent job through a chat message instead, see Replace a photo anywhere on my site.

It's still a draft, still approved the normal way

Neither of these skips the safety net — they only skip the conversation. Both kinds of direct edit land on the same draft as everything else Bernard changes for you, show up on the same preview, and wait on the same Approve button before they reach visitors. Undo works the same way too: reject an unapproved draft with one click, or restore an approved page from your version history — see How do I approve or undo changes?.

One small courtesy: if you save a direct edit while Bernard is in the middle of replying to something else, the workshop holds it for a moment — "Bernard is working — one sec" — then saves it the instant the reply finishes, so the two changes never collide on the same draft.

These two shortcuts cover wording and photos only. Anything that changes layout, colours, fonts or structure still goes through the chat, the way it always has.

The prompt

N/A — this is a direct, click-and-type action in the workshop, not a chat prompt.

The [bracketed] parts are yours to fill in. First time? Connect bernard to your AI over MCP — a one-time setup in bernard → your site → Use your own AI — then paste the prompt above.

Questions people ask

Do I have to ask Bernard to fix a typo or swap a photo?
No — for those two jobs you can skip the conversation entirely. Double-click any heading, paragraph, button or link to edit its words right there, or click a photo and choose Swap. Both save straight to your draft with no AI turn in between.
Does this still need approving before it goes live?
Yes. A direct edit lands on your draft exactly like anything Bernard changes — you still open the preview and press Approve before anyone else sees it. The only thing that's different is how the change got onto the draft, not what happens to it afterwards.
What if I change my mind while I'm typing?
Press Esc and the text snaps back to what it said before — nothing is saved. If you've already saved it (by clicking away or pressing Enter), bernard keeps a full year of history, so an earlier version is always easy to put back.
Will it lose the bold text or the link inside the sentence I'm editing?
No. Editing in place keeps any bold, italic or linked words inside what you're changing — only the block-level layout around it is off-limits this way. If you need to restructure the layout itself, ask Bernard in the chat instead.

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