Publish your changes
Send your edits live with one click, check what’s live, and take a page offline.
Your edits save to the portal as you work, but visitors don’t see them until you publish. That way nobody catches a page half-finished.
Publish #
- Check the previewLook at the page in 📱 Phone view, and tap a few buttons to check they go where you expect.
- Click 🚀 PublishIt’s in the top bar of the editor, and in the Publish tab. Your latest edits are saved first.
- Wait about a minuteYou’ll see “Published. The live page shows it within a minute.” Then refresh your website page to see the change.
Publishing puts the page online, but it shows on your website only after you’ve pasted its install code there. You only do that once.
Is it live? #
Each page card in the portal shows where things stand:
| Label | Means |
|---|---|
| Live | Visitors see your latest edits. |
| Unpublished edits | You’ve changed something since the last publish. Visitors still see the older version until you publish. |
| Not published | The page has never been published, so it isn’t online yet. |
The card also says when the page was last published and by whom. ↗ Live page opens exactly what visitors see.
Plan ahead #
Because saving and publishing are separate, you can get next Sunday’s page ready during the week and publish it Sunday morning. If you need something to switch on and off at set times every week, use special times instead, which change by themselves.
Take a page offline #
On the page card, click ••• → Unpublish. The page comes off your website straight away, and visitors see “This page could not load” until you publish again. Your edits are kept.
If a tag is still out in the building, publish a short “See you next time” version instead of unpublishing, so people who tap it don’t see an error.
Changed your mind? #
Open an earlier version from 🕘 History, or undo your changes, and publish again.
Related guides #
Still stuck? Ask whoever set up DoorStep for your church, and mention this article: Publish your changes.