Publishing your website

Publishing is the moment your changes go live for your fans. Until you publish, edits stay in your drafts — your visitors keep seeing the version you have currently published.

How publishing works

Every website you build is stored as a version on your My Website home page. At any time, exactly one version is live — that is the one marked Active. The rest are drafts you can keep editing, duplicate, or delete.

When you publish a draft version, it becomes the active version and your visitors start seeing it on their next visit.

Publishing from the editor

The most common way to publish is straight from the editor.

1. Open the version you want to publish from My Website then Home.
2. Make your changes and click Save.
3. When you are ready, click the Publish button at the top right.
4. The version becomes active and you are sent back to the My Website home where you can see it is now marked active.

The Publish button only appears when the version you are editing is not already the active one. If you are editing the live version, your Save is enough — the changes are immediately visible to visitors once saved.

Previewing before you publish

Always preview before publishing — especially when you are switching from one major design to another.

1. Open the version in the editor.
2. Click the Preview button (the eye icon) in the toolbar.
3. A preview opens in a new tab — click through every page as a visitor would.
4. Test on your phone too so you catch anything that does not look right on smaller screens.

You can also preview from My Website home without opening the editor — click the Preview button on any version's card.

Version history

Your version history lives on My Website then Home. Every version is shown as a card with its theme thumbnail, its name, and whether it is the currently active version.

The active version is highlighted with an Active badge and shown larger so it is easy to spot.

For each version, you can:

• Edit website — open the version in the editor.
• Preview — open the version in a private preview tab.

The menu button (three dots) on each card gives you more actions:

• Rename — give a version a name that means something to you, like "Album launch" or "Winter tour design."
• Duplicate — make a copy of the version so you can experiment without changing the original.
• Delete — remove a draft you no longer need (you cannot delete the active version).

Renaming a version

1. Click the menu button (three dots) on the version's card.
2. Click Rename.
3. Type a new name in the Name field.
4. Click Save.

The new name shows up on the card right away, so you do not have to scroll past "Version 7" trying to remember which one was the holiday redesign.

Duplicating a version

Duplicating is the safest way to try out big changes — you keep the original intact while you experiment.

1. Click the menu button on the version you want to copy.
2. Click Duplicate.
3. Give the duplicate a name so you can tell it apart.
4. Click Duplicate to confirm.

A new draft version appears on the page, ready to edit.

Deleting a draft

1. Click the menu button on the draft version's card.
2. Click Delete.
3. Confirm.

The active version cannot be deleted — first publish a different version, then come back and delete this one if you still want to.

Switching back to an older version

Because every version stays on your dashboard until you delete it, switching back is just a matter of opening the older version and publishing it.

1. Find the version you want to roll back to on My Website then Home.
2. Click Edit Website to open it.
3. Click Publish to make it active again.

Your visitors will see the older version on their next visit.

Sharing your website

Once your site is published, there are two quick actions on My Website then Home for sharing it:

• View website — opens your live site in a new tab.
• Copy website URL — copies the link to your clipboard so you can share it anywhere.

If you want to use your own custom web address instead of the default one, head to Managing domains.