Preview & Publish

Going live takes two switches: your site must be published, and the page you want visitors to see must be published too. Both have to be on for a page to appear publicly.

Two levels of publishing

Think of the site switch as the master toggle. Even if a page is published, it stays hidden until the site itself is published.

Publish the site

When you publish or unpublish a site, a confirmation appears:

• Publish site — your site becomes publicly accessible to anyone with the link.
• Unpublish site — your site is no longer accessible to visitors. You can republish at any time.

You can manage this from Website Settings. On the Page panel, your startpage shows a Website Status banner (green when live, red when not) with a shortcut to Website Settings.

Publish a page

Open the Page panel and stay on the General tab. Under Visibility, toggle Published on.

The startpage is a special case: it is always published and cannot be turned off individually. Its visibility is governed entirely by the site-level switch. See Startpage for more.

A few page rules worth knowing:

• Only a published page can be Set as Startpage.
• Show in Navigation is separate from publishing — a page can be live but not listed in your menu.

Page access

Below the visibility toggles, the Page panel's General tab has an Access & Privacy box for protecting a single page — handy when most of your site is open but one page (a private gallery, client proofs, a members-only area) shouldn't be. It's a Premium feature (and above), and only appears once both the site and the page are published.

You have two gates, usable on their own or together:

• Password — click Add password, set one, and visitors must enter it to view the page. The eye icon reveals what you type; for security the password can't be shown again afterwards, so note it down. Change password or Remove at any time. An unlock lasts for the visitor's browser session.
• Group access — restrict the page to members of one of your groups. They sign in and are let straight through.

If both are set, a visitor gets in by satisfying either one.

Page settings override the site. If a page has its own password or group, that replaces the site-wide setting for that page. A page with no access settings of its own simply follows whatever the site uses.

To protect the whole site instead, use Website Settings → General → Access & Privacy (see General Settings). The startpage has no access box of its own for this reason — protecting the site entry point is a site-level action.

How changes go live

Edits you make in the editor aren't pushed to visitors instantly. Leaving edit mode is what publishes your latest changes:

• Click Stop Editing in the top bar, or
• Click the Preview (pencil) icon in the floating toolbar.

Leaving edit mode clears the cache for your site, so your most recent changes go live. Publishing or unpublishing from the dialog also refreshes the cache on its own, so a status change takes effect even if you stay in the editor.

See Stop Editing for the full details on exiting edit mode.

Your published URL

Your site lives at:

/username/sitename/page-slug

The startpage is reached at /username/sitename. You can change a regular page's slug on the Page panel under the Meta tab — the startpage slug is fixed.

Social Preview Image

Each page can have a Social Preview Image (labelled OG Image on the Page panel) that appears when your page is shared on social media. Set it on the General tab; 1200×630px is recommended. If you don't set one, your Cover Image is used as a fallback.

You can fine-tune the OG Title and OG Description under the Meta tab's Social Media Preview section.

Checklist before sharing a link

• Site is Published (Website Settings)
• The page is Published (Page panel → General)
• You've left edit mode with Stop Editing so changes are live
• A Social Preview Image is set for a clean share card