A published recipe is edited in exactly the same editor. The only difference is the button: it says Update recipe instead of Publish recipe.
Make a change
- Open the recipe from Edit posts.
- Edit anything on the page.
- Press Update recipe.
The change is live immediately. The recipe keeps its original publication date, so fixing a typo does not make an old recipe look new.
Changing the web address
The web address is part of the recipe’s URL. Change it and the old URL stops working — there is no redirect from the old address to the new one.
That matters for a recipe you have already shared. Anything pointing at the old address breaks: links people saved, links from other sites, and links in search results until they are recrawled.
Do not walk away mid-edit
Nothing is saved while you type. If you close the tab with unsaved changes to a published recipe, the live recipe is untouched — but your edits are gone. Press Update recipe before you leave.