Content Editor
The Content Editor is the cloud-based version of the same app in Sitecore Experience Platform (XP), which is Sitecore's on-prem CMS system. Most of the functionality in the Content Editor app is also available in the newer and more intuitive apps:
We encourage content authors and marketers to start using the newer apps and only use the Content Editor for tasks currently not available in the newer apps like the Page builder.
Common tasks
You can perform the following tasks in the Content Editor, but the functionality is also supported by the newer apps:
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Create pages and other items in the Content Editor.
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Categorize items using tags to facilitate tag-based search.
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Search for items in the content tree and build search queries.
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Work with components to define the structure of your pages and the types of content to add, for example, text and images.
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Use component variants to accommodate for different usage scenarios.
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Create or select content items for your components to facilitate content reuse. In the page builder, content items appear as content items.
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Define the layout of your pages by selecting preconfigured page designs in the Content Editor.
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Change the layout of a component by changing its style settings.
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Use workflows with your items.
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Publish content to the Experience Edge publishing platform.
Tasks you can only do in the Content Editor
Here's a list of the tasks you can only do in the Content Editor:
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Duplicate pages without subpages.
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Clone or unclone an item to inherit the field values of the original item.
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Redirect search traffic, for example, if pages are moved to new locations.
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Help search engines prioritize pages from your website.
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Use placeholder settings to control which components that can be used with particular placeholders, which are the main sections of a page.
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Use item buckets to hide a large number of items while keeping them searchable.
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Manage your media files.
The following tasks might require help from a developer:
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Group your JSS headless websites in site collections to share content, templates, layout, and settings between the sites.
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Create data templates to determine the structure of your pages, for example, the fields on your product pages, or elements such as footers.
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Define standard values to prepopulate the fields of your data templates, for example, Enter the product description here.
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Configure the sharing of styles, layout elements, components, and data sources between the sites within a site collection.