Editing content where readers see it

Every CMS promises WYSIWYG, and almost none deliver it. You edit in a form on the left, squint at a preview on the right, publish, and then discover the headline wraps badly at the real column width.

The preview is a simulation. The live page is the truth.

Editing in place

PatchCMS embeds a small script on your site. When an editor with access opens a page, editable regions light up — the same title, description, and body your readers see, in the exact type, width, and layout they see it in. There is no admin panel with a mirror-world copy of your site.

Because the page is the interface:

• Line breaks, truncation, and overflow are visible while you type, not after you publish.
• Context stays intact — you edit the paragraph next to the image it references.
• There is nothing new to learn. If you can use a text editor, you can edit the site.

Safe by default

Editing in place does not mean publishing in place. Saves never touch the live branch directly: each one becomes a pull request against the Markdown source, so your existing review and deploy pipeline stays in charge of what ships.

The result is the shortest possible loop between "I saw a typo" and "the fix is in review" — one click on the page, one edit, one save.