About this plugin
Custom themes are fast and look exactly as designed, but clients can’t change a headline without a developer. Hexweb Live Theme Editor adds a visual editing layer on top of any theme:
- Click any text on the page and type.
- Replace images and background images from the Media Library.
- Change colours, fonts, sizes and weights per element.
- Recolour the whole site: the plugin scans the theme’s CSS, lists every colour and font, and swaps them everywhere at once.
- Duplicate, move, hide and delete blocks and sections, and copy a section from one page to another.
- Preview and edit at desktop, tablet and mobile sizes; tablet/mobile style changes apply only on those screens.
- Drag and drop blocks into a new order.
- Google Fonts are hosted on your own site (GDPR-friendly).
- Header, footer and navigation edits apply on every page; everything else on the page you’re on.
Lightweight by design: visitors get no editor JavaScript or CSS at all. The editor (about 66 KB) loads only for an administrator in edit mode.
Edits are stored as a separate layer and applied when the page is rendered. Theme files are never modified. Deactivate the plugin and the site is exactly what the theme renders.
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Usage
- Log in as an administrator and open any page.
- Click “Live Edit” in the admin bar.
- Click an element to edit it. Ctrl+S saves.
- Tools → Live Editor shows every edited page, with undo, clear and export/import.
hxle_off=1 to any URL to see the page without edits (admins only).
External services
This plugin can connect to Google Fonts, but only when you pick a Google font in the editor or in the site-wide font remap.
- What is sent and when: when you save edits that use a Google font, your server requests the font stylesheet and font files from fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com once, and stores them in wp-content/uploads/hxle-fonts/. Only the font family names and weights are sent. Visitors’ browsers then load the fonts from your own site and never contact Google.
- While an administrator is editing, the editor previews fonts by loading them from fonts.googleapis.com in that administrator’s browser.
- If you turn off “Host Google Fonts on this site” in Tools > Live Editor, visitors’ browsers load the fonts from Google directly.
Google Fonts is provided by Google LLC: Terms of Service, Privacy Policy.
No other external service is used. The plugin collects no data and sends nothing about your site or visitors anywhere.