AEM is not a free version, please check below thread and it may help you how to get a trial version.AEM 6.1 free download

You need to create policies to author components on the page. please check below links on creating editable templatesYOURTESTBOOK AEM Developer Learning : Dynamic (Editable) Templates in AEM 6.3 : Part-1

As long as the inheritance exists between your live copy and blueprints the rollout config should work. please check live relationship once and also let us know what exactly you are trying to publish?Reusing Content: Multi Site Manager and Live Copy

When you selected checkbox, is it storing as a property under a content node? if so then it should fetch checkbox value automatically and display in UI, please check your content node

Did you try adding this property?uncheckedValue="false"http://keysandstrokes.info/aem-6-3-granite-ui-coral-3-components/

As per Scott there is no ootb functionality

Actually, I feel this is also a good requirement without replicating to publish environment you can check it on author instance itself, this is very useful when you want to make authoring productivity high

I think the below design should help youYou need to rewrite all href link on the page by appending wcmmode=disabled,Create a Transformation class and extend it from the org.apache.cocoon.xml.sax.AbstractSAXPipeIn the startlement iterate all attributes of elementFind href linkCheck if it contains que...

You can do this with customization but before that please check once is it really required? if so I can put a design for this.

You need to use sling filters and need to follow below design.Steps :As you are using author instance so you must execute only in author environment. you must add this in run mode configurationsInside doFilter() method you need to check the URL contains "cf#" or not. and it is good to check run mode...