Drafts, preview & publishing
This is the single most important idea in the whole editor: saving and publishing are two different things, on purpose.
Why they’re separate
Saving happens constantly and silently while you work — every field you change is written to your own private draft the moment you make it. This means you can experiment, step away mid-edit, and come back later without losing anything. None of that is visible to your site’s visitors. Publishing is the deliberate, explicit action that actually makes your changes public.
Because saving is free and constant, there’s no reason to rush an edit or publish something half-finished just to “save your place”. Leave a page as a draft for as long as you like — come back to it tomorrow, next week, whenever it’s ready.
Preview
The live preview panel in the editor always shows you your draft — including on a page that has never been published at all. This is exactly what your visitors will see the moment you publish, rendered by the real site itself, not an approximation.
Publishing
When a page is ready, click Publish Page at the top of the editor. This makes your draft live immediately and clears the draft — the page now shows as simply Live rather than Live + draft pending. Publishing is recorded permanently in the page’s history, described in Page history & rollback, so there’s always a record of exactly what changed and when.
Discarding a draft
Changed your mind? Discard Changes throws away your unsaved edits and leaves the live page exactly as it was — nothing is lost from the public site because nothing on the public site was ever touched.
Taking a page offline
Set as Draft (in the page’s actions menu on the Pages screen) is different from discarding a draft: it takes an already-live page down, so visitors get a normal “not found” response at that URL. The page itself isn’t deleted — its content and history are untouched, and you can publish it again at any time with Publish from the same menu.
When two people edit the same page
If someone else publishes a change to a page while you have it open, the editor will tell you the page has changed since you started, rather than silently overwriting their work with yours (or vice versa). You’ll be offered the chance to reload the current version or review what changed before deciding how to proceed. This protection exists specifically so that two people editing at once can never lose each other’s work without knowing about it.
Quick reference
| Action | What it does | Visible to the public? |
|---|---|---|
| Editing a field | Saved to your draft automatically | No |
| Publish | Draft replaces the live page | Yes, immediately |
| Discard Changes | Your unpublished edits are deleted | Unaffected |
| Set as Draft | The live page is taken offline | No longer, but recoverable |