TeleportHQ glossary: words you'll see in the app

This TeleportHQ glossary explains, in one sentence each, the words you'll meet in the TeleportHQ dashboard and editor, and links to the article that explains each one in detail. Terms are grouped by topic and listed alphabetically inside each group.

Account, workspaces and plans#

• Admin, Designer, Editor, Viewer, Limited Viewer: the roles you can give people in a TeleportHQ workspace or project, from Admin, who can do almost everything except billing, to Limited Viewer, who can only view some pages. See What can each role do?.
• AI tokens: the credit balance a TeleportHQ workspace spends when you use AI features, shared by everyone in that workspace. See What are AI tokens, and how many do I get?.
• Collaborator: a person you've invited to work with you, either on a whole workspace or on a single project. See How to invite people to your workspace.
• Dashboard: the TeleportHQ home screen after you sign in, where you see your workspaces and project cards. See A tour of the TeleportHQ dashboard.
• Editor seat: a place for one person who can edit (the Owner, an Admin, a Designer or an Editor) in a Pro or Premium workspace, where 1 seat is included, extra seats are paid, and Viewers don't use a seat. See How do editor seats work?.
• Expired: the state of a TeleportHQ workspace whose trial or subscription has ended, in which projects are archived and editing is paused. See What happens when my trial or subscription ends?.
• Extra language (language slot): a paid add-on that lets a TeleportHQ project publish in one more language besides its main one. See How to buy extra language slots.
• Owner: the one person who created a workspace and controls its plan and billing; ownership can't be handed to someone else. See What is a workspace?.
• Pro and Premium: the two paid TeleportHQ plans; Premium adds more AI tokens, more storage and 1 included web app. See What's the difference between Trial, Pro and Premium?.
• Quests: short guided tasks in TeleportHQ that teach you a feature and reward you with free AI tokens. See What are Quests?.
• Trial: the free 7-day TeleportHQ plan every new workspace starts on, which includes almost every feature for 1 project. See How does the TeleportHQ free trial work?.
• Workspace: a shared space in TeleportHQ that holds projects, members, a plan and billing, with one owner. See What is a workspace?.

Projects#

• Archived: a TeleportHQ project that's frozen and can't be edited, usually because the workspace's trial or subscription ended. See What does "Archived" mean on my project?.
• Clone (Duplicate): a full copy of a project, created in a workspace so you can change it without touching the original. See How to duplicate a project.
• Folder: a way to group projects on the dashboard and limit who sees them, available on paid plans. See How to organize projects in folders.
• Project: one website, web app, online store or booking site you build in TeleportHQ, with its own pages, files and settings. See How to create a new project.
• Project settings: the TeleportHQ panel where you change a project's name, favicon, SEO, languages, fonts, custom code and secrets; in the editor, open it with the cog at the bottom of the left sidebar (features such as a store or a blog are switched on in Plugins). See Where are Project Settings?.
• Template: a finished TeleportHQ design you copy as the starting point for a new project. See How to start a project from a template.
• Web app: a TeleportHQ project with live features such as workflows, user sign-in, a store, a blog, a help center or online bookings, whose code can't be downloaded. See What's the difference between a website and a web app?.
• Web App slot: a paid add-on that keeps one web app published and running after its first 7 days; Trial and Premium include one. See Why does my web app need a slot, and what is the 7-day window?.
• Website (Presentation Website): a TeleportHQ project that presents your business without live app features such as accounts, a store or bookings, and whose code can be downloaded on a paid plan; the Presentation Website card in the Create Project panel starts one. See What's the difference between a website and a web app?.

The editor#

• Assets Manager: the TeleportHQ panel where you upload and pick images, videos, icons, fonts and other files. See What is the Assets Manager?.
• Backup: a saved version of your whole project that you can restore later. See How to back up and restore your project.
• Canvas: the large area in the middle of the TeleportHQ editor that shows the page you're working on. See A tour of the TeleportHQ editor.
• Command palette: a search box you open with a keyboard shortcut to jump to a page or run a command. See How to use the command palette.
• Comments: notes you and your team pin to a project to discuss changes. See How to leave and reply to comments.
• Component: a reusable block, such as a navigation bar or a footer, that you design once and use on many pages; changing it updates every copy. See What are components?.
• Element: a single building block you add to a page, such as a text, image, button or container. See Which elements can I add to a page?.
• Explorer (Pages, Components & Tree View): the TeleportHQ panel that lists your pages and components and shows the layers tree of the open page. See How to use the layers tree.
• Inspector: the right-hand panel that shows the style settings of the element you selected. See How the style panel works.
• Page: one screen of your site with its own web address, such as the homepage or a Contact page. See How to add a new page.
• Plugins (called Extra Features before): the TeleportHQ left-sidebar tab that lists the features a project can add (Authentication, E-commerce, Blog, Help Center, Bookings, AI assistant chat and Admin panel), shows which are on, and opens each one's settings. See A tour of the TeleportHQ editor.
• Preview: a new browser tab where you can click through your whole site before publishing it. See How to preview your site before publishing.
• Props (component properties): settings you add to a component so each copy can show different text, images or links. See How to add editable settings to a component.
• Section: a ready-made group of elements, such as a hero banner, pricing table or testimonials block, that you add to a page in one click. See How to add ready-made sections.
• Slot: a placeholder inside a component where you can put different content in each copy (not the same thing as a Web App slot). See How to use slots in components.

AI#

• AI Assistant: the chat in the TeleportHQ editor that changes your project, builds pages and answers how-to questions from what you type. See What can the TeleportHQ AI Assistant do?.
• AI assistant chat: a chatbot you add to your published web app, from Plugins, so your visitors can ask it questions (different from the AI Assistant in the editor). See How to add an AI chatbot to your web app.
• AI Hub: a list of pages and sections AI generated earlier in a project, so you can reuse them. See How to reuse pages and sections AI generated earlier.
• AI Website Builder: the TeleportHQ setup steps that ask about your business, style, colors and fonts, then generate your site. See What is the TeleportHQ AI Website Builder?.
• Project brief: what TeleportHQ's AI knows about your business, set in Project settings → AI → Project brief; your own standing instructions for the AI Assistant are next to it, under Assistant. See How to give the AI your business details and instructions.

Design#

• Breakpoint: a screen width, such as tablet or mobile, at which you can give your page different styles. See How to make your site look good on phones and tablets.
• CSS class: a named set of styles you apply to many elements, so changing the class restyles them all. See What are CSS classes, and why use them?.
• Design Language: the TeleportHQ panel that holds your site's saved colors, text styles, spacing and classes, shown on the right when nothing is selected. See What is the Design Language panel?.

Data and app features#

• Admin panel: a back office generated for your web app, where you and your admins manage users, products, orders and other data. See What is the admin panel?.
• Array Mapper (list): an element that repeats a design once for every item in your data, such as one card per product. See How to show a list of items.
• Authentication: the TeleportHQ feature that adds sign-up, login and user accounts for your site's visitors. See How to add sign-up and login to your site.
• Bookings: a TeleportHQ web app feature, switched on from Plugins or started with the Bookings card for a new project, that lets your customers book items online by time, night or day, such as appointments, tables, rooms or rentals, with calendars, opening hours and booking emails. See What's the difference between a website and a web app?.
• CMS (headless CMS): an outside content tool, such as Strapi, Contentful or WordPress, that you connect to TeleportHQ to show its content on your pages. See How to connect a headless CMS.
• Conditional rendering: showing or hiding an element depending on a rule, such as "only when the visitor is signed in". See How to show or hide elements based on a condition.
• Data source: a connection from your TeleportHQ project to where data lives, such as a database, a CMS, an API, a Google Sheet or a CSV file. See What are data sources?.
• Details page: one page design that TeleportHQ fills in for each item in your data, such as a page per product or blog post. See How to create a page for each item.
• E-commerce: the TeleportHQ online store feature, with products, cart, checkout and orders. See How to create an online store with TeleportHQ.
• Form: an element that collects information from visitors, such as a contact or quote request form, and stores the submissions, which you read in Growth → Forms. See How to create a form.
• Help Center: a TeleportHQ web app feature, switched on from Plugins, that adds help articles to your site, each with its own page, grouped in categories, much like a blog. See What's the difference between a website and a web app?.
• Secrets: passwords and API keys stored safely in your project settings instead of in your pages. See How to keep passwords and API keys safe.
• States: values your site remembers while a visitor uses it, such as which tab is open or what's in a search box. See How to store and use values with States.
• TeleportHQ database: a database built into TeleportHQ that you can set up without any outside service. See How to set up the built-in TeleportHQ database.
• Workflow: an automation in a TeleportHQ web app that runs steps when something happens, such as sending an email when a form is submitted. See What are workflows?.

Growth#

• Growth: the TeleportHQ editor tab with your site's analytics, SEO tools and Marketing Studio, plus your form submissions, your store's orders and subscriptions, and your bookings. See What's in the Growth tab?.
• Marketing Studio: the TeleportHQ tools for contacts, email and SMS campaigns, and AI-made social posts and graphics. See What is the Marketing Studio?.
• SEO: the settings that help search engines such as Google find and show your pages. See How SEO works in TeleportHQ.

Publishing and code#

• Code export: downloading a website's code (React, Next.js, Vue, Nuxt, Angular or HTML) so you can host it elsewhere, available on paid plans. See Can I download my site's code?.
• Custom code: your own HTML or scripts, such as a tracking code, added to every page of your site. See How to add code to every page.
• Custom domain: a web address you own, such as mybakery.com, connected to your published TeleportHQ site. See How to connect your own domain.
• Deployment: one published version of your site; each time you publish, TeleportHQ creates a new deployment. See How to see and manage your deployments.
• Figma plugin: the TeleportHQ plugin for Figma that turns your Figma designs into a TeleportHQ project. See How to turn a Figma design into a website.
• Publish: putting the current version of your project online so anyone with the address can visit it. See How to publish your site.
• Staging: a private test copy of your site on its own address, where you check changes before making them live. See How to test changes on a staging site.
• TeleportHQ web address (subdomain): the free address your site gets when you publish, such as sunny-bakery.teleporthq.app (on a trial) or sunny-bakery.teleporthq.site (on Pro and Premium). See How to change your free TeleportHQ web address.
• Watermark: a small "Built in TeleportHQ" badge with the TeleportHQ logo, shown in the bottom-right corner of sites published from a workspace that isn't on a paid plan. See What's the difference between Trial, Pro and Premium?.