Publishing your changes

Everything you edit stays inside your space until you publish it: your visitors see none of it. The “Publish” button puts your changes online. This page shows you what it does, how long it takes, and how to go back if you need to.

Publishing an entry

Reread your content. Everything is already saved automatically, so there is no rush: publish when you are happy with the result.
Click “Publish”, at the top of the entry. A small menu opens: pick your language, for example “Publish French”. Your website only exists in one language? Just click the first line.
The message “Published.” appears. You are done: your website updates on its own.

If an essential piece of information is missing (a title, a required image), nothing goes online: the window “Some information is missing to publish” lists the fields to fill in. Complete them, then publish again.

What happens next

Your website updates without any further action on your part, usually within one to three minutes. You publish at 2:30 pm: your visitors see the new text around 2:32 pm.

No need to stay on the page or keep your computer on: the update happens on its own.
To check, open your website in another tab and refresh the page after a few minutes.

Publishing several changes at once

Touching up five entries over the afternoon? Publish them however suits you: one by one as you go, or all in a row at the end. Publications made close together are grouped automatically into a single website update, so there is no such thing as publishing “too often”.

Two markers to find your way around:

In your content list, a published entry carries the label “Published”.
In the “Publish” menu, a language with nothing new shows “French: up to date”. There is nothing left to republish.

If your website exists in several languages

The “Publish” menu lists each language separately. You can publish the French right away and keep the English for later, while the translation is being finished. To send everything at once, choose “Publish all languages”.

Going back to a previous version

Nothing is ever lost: every version of your content is kept, and so is every published version of your website.

Before publishing. The ⋯ menu at the top of the entry offers “Discard changes”: your current experiments disappear and the entry goes back to its last published version (or to its original state if it was never published).
A typo just went live? Fix the entry and publish again: the correction replaces the live text a few minutes later. This is the fastest route.
To bring back an older version (last week’s text, the previous photo): ask the person who manages your website. They can put back online whichever version you want.

Publish with confidence: whatever is online can always be corrected, and whatever was replaced can always be recovered. For a reminder of what you see in your space before publishing, reread Getting started with your space.