CloudCannon upgrades are here 🎉

[george]

We’ve just released a big update to CloudCannon! Feel free to make the switch and try it out!

What’s new

Expanded Editable Regions

Editable Regions now support front matter, data files, and template files (.astro, .tsx, etc.). Your editors can modify text, images, arrays, and source content right where they appear, creating a more intuitive Visual Editor experience.

Check it out below, where we edit text, items in an array, and swap in a new image:

CloudCannon Editable Regions demo

We’ve been careful to ensure there are no breaking changes — your existing sites will work exactly as before.

Configuration Mode

Adjust site settings live within CloudCannon. Spot an input that needs tweaking? Click to change it. Available for sites on Unified Configuration, this feature accelerates your setup workflow. Switch Configuration Mode on to change your inputs, and off to preview the editor experience.

As an example below, we’ll change the img path to an image preview, and make our tags input a multiselect:

CloudCannon Configuration Mode demo

Interface refresh

Thanks to a behind-the-scenes rewrite, the whole CloudCannon platform feels faster and more streamlined. You’ll see reorganized navigation, improved dashboards with activity insights and bandwidth metrics, and performance boosts throughout.

Timeline

Now through February 2026: Opt in via the CloudCannon sidebar whenever you’re ready. You can revert if needed.

February 2026: Automatic upgrade for all remaining users.

Documentation

We’ve thoroughly refreshed our docs and guides as part of this release (thanks Ella!). If you’re interested in jumping straight to the newest features, check out the following:

• Set up Visual Editing (with Editable Regions)

• What is Configuration Mode?

• Full changelog for this release

Any questions?

Feel free to ask the team here, or contact support via the app.

[Lex]

Wow, these certainly are some great updates. The new visual editing, but also the configuration mode works so much better than the previous config editor. Really intuitive. However I can’t seem to find a way to edit global inputs, structures etc. with it now?

Also it would be really helpful that when there is an error in the config file that prevents saving it in Cloudcannon we could get a hint as to where we can find that error .

Tx team!

[Ryan]

Thanks Lex, glad you’re enjoying it!

You can still access the full config GUI by opening your config file from the File Browser, and then switching to the Data Editor using the toggle in the editing interface header. That’s still the only way to edit your global _structures (for now!).

You can also edit a global Input by turning on Config Mode, finding that input in the Data Editor, and clicking the purple “Edit” button on it. You’ll see there are options to edit the globally-scoped config for the Input, or add config scoped to the current collection.

We’d definitely like to add some better hints about where to find validation errors that are preventing a file from being saved. You can expect some improvements there in the not-too-distant future, I’ll make sure to keep you posted!

[Lex]

Ah Thanks Ryan, there it is