While you're editing a page in the Site Designer, the Editing mode dropdown lets you preview that page as any audience type — a logged-out visitor, a guest, a complimentary account, or any of your membership tiers in active, canceled, or expired states. As you switch states, the editor immediately reflects what each audience would see, including the effect of the page's access rules, hidden sections, age verification gates, and unpublished membership tiers.
Finding the Editing mode dropdown
Open any page in the Site Designer. At the top of the page (next to Videos, Global settings, and the other top controls), look for Editing mode. Click it to open the dropdown listing every audience state available for that page.
The audience states you can preview
The dropdown shows every audience your access settings can target:
Visitor — not logged in, no account.
Visitor with age verification required — a visitor who would need to pass the age verification gate before seeing the page.
Guest — logged in, but has never had a membership.
Complimentary — has an active complimentary membership.
Active / Canceled / Expired — for each membership tier — every published tier appears three times, once for each lifecycle state. Active means paying and will renew, Canceled means rebill stopped but access continues until the renewal date, Expired means access has ended.
Show unpublished memberships — a toggle at the bottom that adds your unpublished membership tiers to the list, so you can preview pages for tiers you haven't launched yet.
Using Editing mode with page access settings
Editing mode pairs directly with the Access settings tab on each page. After you change who can view a page — or which sections are hidden for which audiences — switch the Editing mode dropdown to the audience you want to test. The editor immediately renders the page exactly as that audience would see it, with hidden sections removed and access-gated areas updated.
A typical workflow:
Open the page → Access settings tab → set the rules for Members and Others.
Switch back to the Page design tab.
Open Editing mode and pick an audience — for example, Visitor.
Confirm the page looks right for that audience. Switch to another state — Guest, Expired Bronze, Active Weekly — and verify each one.
Publish when every audience renders the way you want.
How this differs from View my site
Both features preview your site as different audiences, but they work at different levels:
Editing mode (this article) lives inside the Site Designer, on a specific page. It's a real-time preview you toggle while editing, and it only shows the page you're currently working on.
View my site (in the main navigation) opens your whole live site in a new tab, in preview mode for the audience you pick. It's the right tool for verifying flows across multiple pages.
Use Editing mode while building or fixing a single page; use View my site for an end-to-end audience walk-through.
Things to know
Editing mode reflects unpublished changes immediately — you don't need to save or publish first.
The state you pick is local to your editing session; it doesn't change what real visitors see.
Tiers you've never published are hidden by default. Turn on Show unpublished memberships at the bottom of the dropdown to include them.
If a tier has multiple price options, the audience states cover the tier as a whole — you don't need to switch separately for each price.
If a page is set to "Cannot view" for the audience you pick, the editor shows the empty/blocked state that audience would actually land on.