How does a change in the Visual Editor become a website change?
Create a block for a piece of a page, such as a banner with a heading and an image. Your developer connects the block to the website’s layout. An editor can then preview the banner in the Visual Editor and publish the story when it is ready.
Storyblok hosts the content editor and delivery service. You still build and host the public site. Publishing makes the updated story available for delivery. Your site determines when it refreshes what visitors see.
How do you show pending edits without exposing them to visitors?
Use the published-content token for the public site. Keep the draft-capable preview token on the server and validate the Visual Editor preview request there. A changed story has a live version and pending edits, so keep the preview route separate from the public response.
Storyblok has default roles and a default workflow for moving a story toward publication. Check whether the built-in permissions cover your handoff. The current plan table puts custom roles and workflows on Premium and Elite.
What changes when you add editors, languages or traffic?
On November 12, 2026, Starter listed one Space, one included seat, two locales, 100,000 monthly requests and 100 GB monthly traffic. A Space holds a project’s content. The vendor describes Starter as limited for testing and personal projects.
Growth lists five included seats at US$99 per month on monthly billing. Price additional editors, translated versions and delivery separately, and keep public-site hosting in the budget. The introductory Growth Plus trial can show features your later plan does not include.
What is missing from a Storyblok backup?
The documented automated backup on eligible plans includes stories, blocks and references to files. It leaves out the actual files, story versions, presets and Space settings. Save original files and your site’s display code separately.
Before changing services, choose one page and check the destination has the text, the image and the layout needed to rebuild it. If an older version or a preset matters, plan its separate export.
Can you check a banner change on paper before connecting a preview?
Draw one fictional banner with an old published headline and a new draft headline. Keep real Storyblok accounts, preview credentials and the live site out of the exercise.
- Draw the two viewsShow the old heading to a signed-out visitor. Show the new heading in the authorized preview. Mark which account approves the final story.
- Check what will refreshAfter publication, mark when the website would ask for the new story. The public sketch should keep its old heading until the site has received the approved content.
- Plan to move the bannerList the story fields, block layout and original image. Identify where to retrieve the actual image because its reference alone will not recreate it.