Publishing your website

Take a version live, keep drafts on the side, share a preview link with someone whose opinion you want, and roll back the moment something is not right.

Publishing is the moment your work becomes the thing your fans see. Until you publish, everything stays in your drafts and visitors keep seeing the version you published last.

Versions, and why they matter

Every website you build is kept as a list of versions on My Website then Home. Exactly one is live at a time, and it carries an Active badge and sits larger at the top of the grid. Everything else is a draft you can keep editing, duplicate, or delete.

That is what makes a redesign safe. Build a whole new version over a fortnight while your current site carries on serving fans, then publish the day it is ready.

Publishing an AI-built site

Open the version from My Website then Home by clicking Edit website version.
Make your changes and check them in the live preview.
Click Publish at the top right.

TribeNest builds your site first, and only puts it on your real address if the build succeeds.

A broken build never goes live

If something is wrong, publishing stops and nothing changes. Your current site stays exactly as it is. Read the error, or ask the AI in the builder to fix it, and publish again.

Content edits are instant

Text and images that have been set up as editable fields are different. You change them in Content mode and click Publish in that panel, and they go live immediately with no rebuild. Publishing from the toolbar is only needed for layout, design, and code changes. See Building your website.

Publishing a site from the older visual editor

Open the version from My Website then Home by clicking Edit Website.
Make your changes and click Save.
Click Publish at the top right.

The Publish button only appears when the version you are editing is not already the live one.

Saving the live version goes live right away

There is no separate publish step when you are editing your active version. Clicking Save updates what your visitors see. To experiment without touching the live site, duplicate the version first and edit the copy.

You have two ways to look at something before the world does.

The live preview inside the builder is yours alone. It updates as you work.
Deploy preview, in the builder's menu button (three dots), builds your site and gives you a shareable link. Send it to a bandmate, a manager, or a client. It is not your live site, and publishing is still a separate decision. The link is also available afterwards from the version's card menu as Copy preview URL, and the card gains an Open preview button.

For a site in the older visual editor, click the Preview button on any version's card, or the eye icon in the editor, to open a private preview in a new tab.

Check it on a phone

Most of your visitors are on one. The preview size buttons in the builder get you close, and opening the deploy preview link on your actual phone gets you the rest of the way.

Managing your versions

Each version's card has a menu button (three dots) in its top left corner:

Rename gives a version a name that means something. "Spring tour landing" beats "Version 7" every time.
Duplicate copies the version so you can experiment without changing the original.
Copy version ID copies its identifier, which you need if you work on your site from your own computer.
Copy preview URL appears once a version has a deployed preview.
Delete removes a draft. You cannot delete the version that is currently live.

Renaming

Click the menu button on the version's card.
Click Rename.
Type a new name and click Save.

Duplicating

Duplicating is the safest way to try something big.

Click the menu button on the version you want to copy.
Click Duplicate.
Give the copy a name so you can tell them apart.
Click Duplicate to confirm.

A new draft version appears, ready to edit.

Deleting

Click the menu button on the draft's card.
Click Delete and confirm.

To delete the version that is currently live, publish a different one first.

Rolling back

On an AI-built site

Every publish saves a restore point. Open the builder's menu button (three dots), then History, and pick the point you want to go back to. Your current code is auto-saved first, so nothing is lost. Start the preview to rebuild, check it looks right, then publish.

On a visual-editor site

Open the older version from My Website then Home, click Edit Website, and click Publish. Visitors see it on their next visit.

Keep a known-good version around

Before a big redesign, duplicate your active version and rename the copy something like "Backup before redesign". If the new design goes sideways, you have a one-click way back.

Your web address is shown right under the website name on My Website then Home, and clicking it opens your live site. The menu button at the top right also gives you:

View Website, which opens your live site in a new tab.
Copy Website URL, which copies the link to your clipboard.

If you would rather send people to your own web address, see Managing domains. If you are not ready for anyone to arrive yet, see Password protecting your site.

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