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title: "Your Chef Site: What It Is and How to Edit It"
description: Learn what your Chef Site is, how to get one with Pro, and how to edit its texts and photos yourself from Channels in PCM.
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# Your Chef Site: What It Is and How to Edit It
Private Chef Manager Pro includes your own professional website, your Chef Site, on its own domain and with no PCM branding on it. It exists so you can attract and win your own clients, separately from the requests that reach you through Take a Chef.
### Getting your Chef Site
Your Chef Site is a Pro feature. To get one, go to Channels in the left-hand menu of PCM, find the Chef Site card, and request your site by choosing one of the two templates.
Once you pick a template, the card moves to a "creating" state while our team builds the first version from your professional profile. This is done manually, so there is no guaranteed timeline and it can take longer during busy periods. If your card has been sitting in "creating" for a long time, write to [info@privatechefmanager.com](mailto:info@privatechefmanager.com).
You can't edit the site while it's being created. Editing opens once the channel is active.
### Opening the editor
1. Log in to Private Chef Manager.
2. Click Channels in the left-hand menu.
3. Open the Chef Site card. It shows your current status and a link to view your live website.
4. Open the editing screen from there.
Everything inside is already filled in with your current website content. You can read through it all without changing anything, so it's also a good way to check what clients are actually seeing.
### What you can edit
### Texts
| Field | Where it appears | Limit | Required |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hero highlight | The line that introduces you at the top of the page | 90 characters | Yes |
| Bio headline | The title of your biography section | 90 characters | Yes |
| Bio story | Your story, usually two paragraphs | 600 characters | Yes |
| Bio quote | Your personal quote about cooking | 90 characters | Yes |
| Services highlights | Three highlights, each with a title and a description | 40 characters for the title, 90 for the description | Yes, all three |
| Footer email | Contact details at the bottom of the page | — | No |
| Footer phone | Contact details at the bottom of the page | — | No |
The footer contact fields are the only optional ones. If you leave any of them empty, it simply doesn't appear on your website. Everything else needs content, including the Bio quote.
If you empty a required field it turns red with a message, and you won't be able to publish until you fill it in.
### Photos
Which photo slots you have depends on your template, but the rules are the same everywhere: you replace a photo and the system fits it to the design for you. You never crop, resize or set proportions, and the result adapts automatically to phones, tablets and desktop.
On the Culinary Storyteller template you also have two food gallery sliders: one above your menus section and one below it. Each slider holds between 4 and 10 photos, and you manage them separately.
On the Modern Hospitality template the photo slots are fixed: one hero image, three service images (one per service) and a grid gallery of exactly six photos. All of them are replaced with Change photo.
### Menus
You choose which of your menus appear on your Chef Site and in which order.
- You can show between 1 and 10 menus. A counter shows how many you have selected.
- You can't deselect your last menu, and you can't add an eleventh.
- Only eligible menus can be selected.
- Selecting or deselecting here does not change your menu library. Your menus stay exactly as they are for Take a Chef requests and everywhere else in PCM.
- If you have never made a selection, your site shows a default selection, which also respects the 1 to 10 range.
**How to choose and order your menus**
1. Open the editing screen from the Chef Site card in Channels.
2. Go to the menus section.
3. Select the menus you want on your website, watching the counter as you go.
4. Drag and drop the selected menus into the exact order you want them to appear.
5. Apply the change to the section. The preview updates so you can check the order.
6. Press Save and publish.
The order you set in the editor is the order clients see on your website.
### Reviews
You choose which of your reviews appear on your Chef Site.
- You can show between 0 and 15 reviews. A counter shows how many you have selected.
- Only eligible reviews can be selected.
- Selecting or deselecting here does not change your reviews. Nothing is deleted, and your rating and your reviews on Take a Chef are unaffected.
- If you select none, or you have no eligible reviews yet, the reviews section simply doesn't appear on your website.
- When you reach 15 you can't add more. You'll see a note explaining it, not an error.
- Reviews are always published newest first. You can't reorder them.
**How to choose your reviews**
1. Open the editing screen from the Chef Site card in Channels.
2. Go to the reviews section.
3. Select the reviews you want on your website, up to 15.
4. Apply the change to the section and check the preview.
5. Press Save and publish.
### What you can't edit
- Your name. It comes from your profile.
- Section headings, such as the title above your services.
- The order of your reviews. They always appear newest first.
- Your template. Switching between the two designs is not part of the editor.
- Layout, colours, fonts, new sections or extra pages. The editor gives you guided fields inside your template. It isn't a website builder, and that's deliberate: it means you can't accidentally break your own page.
### Saving and publishing your changes
Editing works in two steps. Nothing you do in the editor reaches your real website until you press Save and publish.
**Step 1. You make a change and see it.**
The editor works section by section. You open a section, change what you want, and confirm it. The preview on screen updates immediately so you can see exactly how it will look.
At this point the change exists only on your screen. It isn't saved anywhere and your live website still shows the old version. Think of it as a rehearsal: you can try things, look at them, and change your mind.
**Step 2. You publish.**
When you're happy with everything, press Save and publish. This saves all your changes at once and sends them to your live website.
A few things to know about this button:
- It only works when something is actually different from what's published. If it looks greyed out, nothing has changed yet.
- Before publishing, the editor checks your content. If a required field is empty, a gallery has fewer photos than it needs, or you have no menu selected, it stops and shows you exactly where the problem is.
- Once it starts, it runs on its own. You'll see short messages while it works (validating, saving, publishing, and finally published). Nobody at PCM has to review or approve anything.
**What happens to the rest of your site**
Anything you didn't touch stays exactly as it was. Publishing only changes what you changed.
**If something goes wrong**
If publishing fails, your work isn't lost. You'll see an error message and you can press Save and publish again.
**If you leave without publishing**
If you try to leave the screen with changes you haven't published, a message asks whether you want to keep editing or leave anyway. If you leave, those changes are discarded, because they were never saved.
### If your site shows an error or the wrong version
Refresh the page and check again after a few minutes, since websites cache content and updates take a little time to appear. If the problem continues, send a screenshot to [info@privatechefmanager.com](mailto:info@privatechefmanager.com).
### Frequently asked questions
**What is my Chef Site for?** It's your own website, under your name and without PCM branding, so you can be found and booked directly by your own clients. It works alongside your Take a Chef requests rather than replacing them.
**Do I need to pay for it?** It's included with Pro. On the free plan the Chef Site card shows an upgrade option instead.
**Where do I edit it?** In PCM, go to Channels in the left-hand menu and open the Chef Site card. The editor is there, not in your profile.
**Do I still need to email my Chef Manager to change my website?** Not for texts, photos, menus or reviews. You do all of those yourself now. Contact us only for things the editor doesn't cover, such as changing template, or if publishing keeps failing.
**Why can't I open the editor?** Three usual reasons: you're not on Pro, you haven't chosen a template yet, or your site is still being created. Editing is available once your Chef Site is active.
**How long until my changes are live?** Publishing starts as soon as you press Save and publish and runs on its own. If your site still looks old, refresh and give it a couple of minutes.
**Why is Save and publish greyed out?** Because nothing has changed compared with your published site. Apply a change to a section first and the button becomes available.
**It won't let me publish. What's wrong?** Something required is empty or outside its limits. Look for the field marked in red. The usual culprits are the Bio quote, one of the three Services highlights, or a food gallery slider that dropped below 4 photos.
**Can I leave my quote or my bio empty?** No. The whole Bio section, including the quote, is required. Only the footer contact details can be left blank.
**Can I choose which menus appear on my website?** Yes. You select which of your eligible menus are shown, between 1 and 10, and you drag and drop them into the order you want. The order you set is the order clients see.
**Can I hide all my menus?** No. You need at least one menu on your site, so the editor won't let you deselect the last one.
**Why can't I select more than 10 menus?** Ten is the maximum the templates are designed for. Beyond that the section stops reading well and the page gets slower, so pick the ten you most want to sell.
**I can't find one of my menus in the list. Why?** Only eligible menus can be selected. If a menu isn't there, check its status in your menus section, and write to us if it still doesn't appear.
**If I deselect a menu, do I lose it?** No. The selection only controls your website. Your menu library is untouched and the menu keeps working for Take a Chef requests as usual.
**Can I choose which reviews appear?** Yes. You select up to 15 of your eligible reviews. Deselecting a review doesn't delete it and doesn't change your rating.
**Can I hide the reviews section completely?** Yes. Select none and the section doesn't appear on your website. It also stays hidden if you don't have eligible reviews yet.
**Can I put my best review first?** No. Reviews are always shown newest first, so the section reads as current. What you control is which ones appear.
**Why can't I select a 16th review?** Fifteen is the maximum. When you reach it the editor stops you and shows a note about it. Deselect one if you want to swap it for another.
**Why can't I delete a photo?** Some slots are fixed by the design. Your hero image, your About photos and, on Modern Hospitality, your services and gallery photos can be replaced but not removed. In the Culinary Storyteller food galleries you can remove photos, but not below 4 in each slider.
**Do I need to crop or resize my photos?** No. Upload the photo you want and the system fits it to the space and to mobile automatically.
**Can I add more photos than the limit?** No. Each gallery has a maximum and the editor stops you there rather than letting you break the layout.
**Where did the Instagram section go?** We removed it from the Culinary Storyteller template for every chef. Most chefs didn't have enough photos to fill it well and it added little for clients. It no longer appears on your site and it isn't in the editor.
**Can I change my template?** Not from the editor. If you want to move between Culinary Storyteller and Modern Hospitality, contact your Chef Manager.
**Can I change the section titles?** No. Headings are part of the template. You edit the content inside the sections, not the labels.
**I updated my PCM profile. Why hasn't my website changed?** Once your Chef Site is live, its content is yours to manage. Your profile was used to build the first version, but changing your profile afterwards doesn't rewrite your website. Make the change in the Chef Site editor instead.
**Can I undo a change after publishing?** There's no version history in the editor. Edit the field again and publish, or contact your Chef Manager if you need help getting back to something you had before.
**I closed the tab by accident. Did I lose my edits?** If you hadn't pressed Save and publish, yes. Applying a change updates the preview only. Publish when you're happy with it.
**Can I edit from my phone?** Yes. The editor works on mobile and desktop.
**Will editing my site hurt how it appears on Google?** No. Your published texts, photos, menus and reviews keep the same technical setup the template already had.
**Can anyone else edit my site?** No. Only you can edit the Chef Site linked to your account.
**What happens to my site if I cancel Pro?** Your Chef Site stops being visible at the end of your billing cycle, and your edits are kept. If you resubscribe, the site comes back.
**What is an eligible menu?** An eligible menu is one of your verified menus. Verified means our team has reviewed it and approved it for public display, the same status that makes a menu bookable elsewhere on the platform. To be approved, a menu needs a clear title, its cuisine type, a price within range, a good cover photo and proper dish descriptions. Menus still waiting to be reviewed, and menus we've flagged with an issue, aren't eligible yet and won't appear in the editor. As soon as a menu is verified it shows up in the list and you can select it for your website.
**What is an eligible review?** An eligible review is one that is already public on your PCM profile. After each service the client receives a survey where they rate you and can leave a written comment. That comment goes live only once our team has read and approved it, and those published reviews are the ones you can choose from. Surveys still pending approval, reviews below 4 stars, and comments that were rejected, aren't eligible and won't appear in the list. As new reviews are published they become available to select, and it's always your choice whether to put them on your site.
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