Bold, Links and Lists Without Touching a Line of HTML
Every text area in the admin now has a real editor attached to it. You can bold a word, add a link, build a list and set a subheading, and what you see while typing is what appears on your actor website.
What was wrong with a plain box
Plain text boxes look harmless. In practice they produce one of two outcomes. Either everything comes out as a single undifferentiated paragraph, or somebody pastes in formatting from a word processor and the page arrives carrying invisible font tags, stray colors and a background that does not match the rest of the site.
Both make a site look amateur in a way that is hard to diagnose. Neither is the writer's fault.
What you get
- Bold and italic, for emphasis rather than decoration.
- Links, typed as words rather than pasted as naked addresses. Internal links to your own pages are offered in a list so you do not have to remember the address.
- Bulleted and numbered lists, which is what most bios and training sections actually want.
- Subheadings, styled by your chosen design rather than by you. A heading on a Modernist site and a heading on a classic site look different, and they should.
- Paste cleanup. Pasting from Word, Google Docs, Notes or a website keeps the words and the structure and discards everything else.
The formatting you cannot do, deliberately
There is no font picker, no color picker and no size control inside the editor. Those live in your design settings, where they apply to the whole site at once. This is not us being precious. A page where three paragraphs use three different fonts is the single most common way a decent template gets made to look broken, and there is no version of that which reads as professional to a casting director.
If you want to change how text looks everywhere, that belongs in your design settings, which is where we will be adding a typeface picker and a color scheme picker in due course.
Where it shows up
Your bio, your custom pages, your training and education entries, your project descriptions, your contact page introduction, and anywhere else you write more than a line. Existing content was migrated as-is: nothing was reformatted behind your back.
This makes long pages worth writing
A wall of text does not get read. A page with three subheadings and a short list does. That is the entire argument for this feature, and it is the same argument behind our advice on good content and on a site that is easy to read.
It also makes the custom pages feature genuinely useful. A page you can format is a page you will actually fill in.
Try it on your bio first
Open your bio and break it into three paragraphs with a subheading between the first and second. Link the name of your training institution to their site, and link the mention of your reel to your own showreel page. That is five minutes and it will read better immediately.
No site yet? Create one free and start with the bio.
