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Guide to the Planadar Website Builder

The Planadar Website Builder is a drag-and-drop tool for creating a beautiful, high-converting public event website — hero, schedule, speakers, tickets, sponsors, FAQs, and more. Data-driven sections auto-populate from your event, so a great page comes together fast.

Editing Your Site

1. Open the Event Console and click Website Builder.
2. Drag sections from the Add Sections panel on the left (collapse it with the toggle rail for more canvas room), or start from a template.
3. Click any text directly on the canvas to edit it (inline editing) — headings, body copy, and button labels. Changes flow through undo/redo and autosave.
4. Select a section to open its settings on the right: content, layout, colors, spacing, and per-device options.

Editing Aids

• Undo / Redo: toolbar buttons or Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Shift+Z.
• Autosave + Save status: edits autosave a couple of seconds after you stop; the header shows "Saving… / Unsaved / Saved".
• Device preview: switch Desktop / Tablet / Mobile. You can set per-device overrides (e.g. different padding/alignment on mobile) and Hide on mobile for individual sections.

Themes (One-Click Restyle)

Open Theme Settings and pick a preset to restyle the whole site while keeping your content:

• Light presets: Modern, Elegant, Editorial, Minimal, Warm, Vibrant.
• Dark presets: Midnight, Noir. Each preset bundles a font pairing, palette, corner radius, and spacing. You can also fine-tune fonts and colors manually. The colors you choose in the builder are what publish — the builder is the source of truth for your website's look (Event Branding still seeds a brand-new site and remains the source of truth for tickets and emails).

Templates

Click Templates for pre-designed starting points (your sections are replaced). Free templates include Tech Conference, Workshop Simple, Minimal Starter, and Virtual Summit. Premium templates (e.g. Virtual Summit Pro, Gala & Fundraiser, Elite Summit, Elegance) are available on paid plans.

Write with AI

• Write with AI (in a Hero, Text, or Call-to-Action section's settings) drafts on-brand copy for that section from your event details.
• Draft with AI (toolbar) drafts copy across multiple sections at once, kept cohesive but distinct.
• Free plans include a daily AI-generation allowance; paid plans are uncapped. Generated copy applies as a single undo step, so you can revert instantly.

SEO & Social

Open the SEO panel to set your Meta Title and Meta Description — or click Generate title & description with AI to draft them from your event. You'll also see a live Google preview, plus fields for a social share (OG) image, favicon, and your own Google Analytics (GA4) and Meta Pixel IDs. On a multi-page site, the panel has a This page section (per-page title, description, OG image, no-index, and exclude-from-sitemap) above your Site defaults, so each page can have its own meta.

Multiple Pages, Header & Footer

Your website can be more than one page:

• Pages: use the Page Manager to add pages (e.g. About, Schedule, FAQ), set which one is the home page, and nest pages so they group in the navigation. Each page has its own sections; the site's theme, header, and footer are shared across all pages.
• Header: open the Header panel to build a sticky top navigation bar — your logo/site name, navigation links, a call-to-action button, and an automatic mobile menu.
• Footer: open the Footer panel for a rich footer — a brand block, link columns, social icons, contact details, and a copyright line (use the {year} token for the current year), plus an optional back-to-top button.
• Links & anchors: header and footer links can point to another page, jump to a specific section anchor (on the same or a different page), an external URL, or your tickets. You can place actions like Donate, Enter to Win, Add to Calendar, and Share in the header or footer instead of as floating buttons.

Reusable Components (Saved Blocks)

Save any section as a reusable component and insert it on other pages as linked instances — edit the component once and every instance updates everywhere. Unlink an instance to make it a one-off copy, or use Customize on this page to change just that instance's content while its design keeps syncing. Publishing bakes each page so your live site stays fast and self-contained.

Working Contact, Newsletter & Custom Form Sections

• The Contact section is a real form on the published site — messages are emailed to you (reply-to the visitor, so you just hit Reply), with spam protection and rate limiting.
• The Newsletter section captures signups into your event's own Subscribers list (Event Console → Communicate → Subscribers), which you can export or email via the "Event Subscribers" audience in Announcements.
• The Custom Form section builds any form you need — contact, RSVP, survey, sign-up — with multi-column layouts, conditional logic, and guided multi-step flows. Submissions are emailed to you and saved. See "Building a Custom Form on Your Event Website" for the full guide.

Domains

Open the Domain panel:

• Subdomain: publish at yourname.planadar.com (you can change or Remove it any time).
• Custom domain: connect events.yourcompany.com with automatic SSL (white-label plans).
• An event uses either a subdomain or a custom domain, not both — remove one to switch to the other.

Publishing

• Draft: changes are saved but not public.
• Published: your site is live at your event URL.
• Click Publish / Republish in the toolbar (you need a subdomain or verified custom domain first). Republishing pushes exactly what you see in the builder.

Plan-Based Feature Gating

• Free Plan: hosted on a path-based URL (planadar.com/e/:slug) with a "Powered by Planadar" footer.
• Growth Plan: custom subdomain (yourname.planadar.com) and full theming; retains the "Powered by Planadar" footer.
• Scale Plan: complete white-labeling (no Planadar marks) and a custom domain.