Publishing your site

Make your changes visible to visitors, and take a site offline again.

You edit a private draft; Publish puts it live
You edit a private draft; Publish puts it live

Your edits are saved as a draft. Visitors see the published version, which only changes when you publish.

Publish

Either:

  • Click Publish in the editor toolbar (it saves first), or
  • Click Publish site (or Publish changes) on the site's page (Manage).
The editor confirms with your site's address
The editor confirms with your site's address

Publishing makes all pages of the site live at once, and the site gets a green Live badge.

Unpublished changes

After the first publish, the site's page tells you when there are saved changes that visitors can't see yet:

Saved changes waiting to be published
Saved changes waiting to be published
  1. A reminder that some changes aren't live yet.
  2. Publish changes puts them live.
  3. Each changed page is marked unpublished changes.

Take a site offline

On the site's page, under Danger zone, click Unpublish. Visitors will see "not found"; your drafts are kept and you can publish again any time.

The Danger zone
The Danger zone

A custom "page not found"

Add a page with the file name 404.html and publish. Visitors who follow a broken link will see it instead of the standard message.

Updated Oct 12, 2026, 7:47 PM

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