Help › Editing › Site header, footer and partials

Edit the footer (or pre-header, or a partial) in place

1. Open any page in the editor.
2. Click the footer on the canvas.
3. The rest of the page dims and a banner reads Editing Footer — changes apply to every page that uses it (13 pages). The outline now lists the footer's own sections.
4. Edit it exactly like a page: type in place, add or move sections, change styles.
5. Press Done to return to the page.

If you leave with unsaved changes, Webmarlin asks Save and exit or Discard and exit. A shared block that is write-protected shows This shared section is locked. Unlock it to edit.

If the page hides the pre-header or footer, turn it on in Page settings → General first; the link there says Turn it on here to edit it on the page.

Edit the header

The header is set up with settings rather than sections. Click it on the canvas and the Header panel opens on the right, while the page dims.

Press Save in the panel. As the panel says, changes are saved to the site and go live when you publish.

The header builder (Canvas and Nova templates)

On the Canvas and Nova templates the header can be rebuilt from slots: an optional top row, a main bar with left, center and right slots, and an optional bottom row. Logo and menu can move between slots; the other slots take text, buttons, phone, social icons, search or cart.

You can also set bar height (regular, compact, tall), padding, background (surface, primary, transparent), a border or shadow, the menu link style (plain, underline, pill) and text size. On phones the header shows the logo and a hamburger; each item can stay in the bar, move into the drawer, or hide.

Today you choose a preset by asking webmarlin.ai or a connected AI assistant, for example "Use the split header with the phone number in the top row." (A console panel for the builder is not in this version; screenshot not available.)

Partials

A partial is a block of sections you reuse on many pages, such as an opening-hours strip or a newsletter sign-up. The Footer and Pre Header are partials too.

1. Open Partials and press New partial. Name it; only you see the name.
2. Press Edit and build it like a page.
3. On any page, add it from Add section → Partials.
4. Edit it later from Partials, or by clicking it on any page that uses it.

Template default on a card means the block still has the template's starter content. Before deleting a partial, Webmarlin lists the pages that use it; deleting removes it from all of them. Duplicate makes a copy you can change separately.

Partials with editable fields

A partial can keep its layout the same everywhere while each page shows its own details. Write a field name between percent signs, such as %event_date% or %price%, anywhere in the partial's text. Each place you use the partial then gets its own value for that field.

1. In the partial, type the placeholders where the details go, for example "Next class: %event_date% · %price%".
2. Add the partial to a page and click it. The panel on the right lists one field per placeholder.
3. Type the values, in the panel or on the page. Fields are plain text: what you type or paste is shown exactly as written, and pasted text lands where the cursor is. Names ending in _text, description, body or intro get a larger box that keeps line breaks.

Changing the partial itself (its layout or wording around the placeholders) changes every page that uses it; the values you typed per page stay.

Custom blocks. A partial can also hold a custom HTML block, for something the section library does not have, such as a timeline or a chart. Custom HTML renders on paid plans. An AI assistant connected to Webmarlin can build such a block for you, for example when you move an existing website to Webmarlin and a section has no ready-made equivalent: it builds the block once with fields for its content and places it wherever your old site had it.