Publishing
Preview privately, publish a page, and set your whole site to live, coming-soon, private, or maintenance.
When a page is ready, you publish it so visitors can see it. Before that, you can share a private preview link to get feedback. You can also control the status of your whole site — for example, keep it in coming-soon mode until launch day.
How a page goes live
A page moves through clear stages:
| Stage | What it means |
|---|---|
| Draft | You're still working on it. Visitors cannot see it. |
| Preview | A private look at the page before it's public, ideal for sharing with colleagues. |
| Published | Live for everyone. |
| Unpublished | Taken back off the public site, but kept so you can publish it again. |
| Archived | Set aside and no longer in use, but kept for reference. |
Steps
- Build your page as a draft — see Pages & blocks.
- Click Preview to check how it looks.
- Share a preview link if you want feedback (see below).
- When ready, click Publish.
- To take it down later, Unpublish or Archive it.
Shareable preview links
You can share a preview of an unpublished page with someone outside your team. For safety, a preview link can be:
- Password-protected — only people with the password can open it.
- Set to expire — the link stops working after a date you choose.
This lets you get sign-off from a client or colleague without making the page public.
Whole-site status
You can also set the status of your entire site:
| Mode | What visitors see |
|---|---|
| Live | The normal, public site. |
| Coming soon | A holding page — useful before launch. |
| Private | The site is hidden from the general public. |
| Maintenance | A temporary "we'll be back shortly" page while you make changes. |
How to set site status
- Go to Admin → Website → Settings.
- Choose a site status — Live, Coming soon, Private, or Maintenance.
- Click Save.
Remember to switch your site back to Live after launch or after maintenance — otherwise visitors keep seeing the holding page.
Good to know
- Save a named version before a big publish, so you can roll back fast — see Versions & redirects.
- If you change a page's web address when publishing, add a redirect from the old one.
- While building a brand-new site, coming-soon mode plus an "ask search engines not to list it" setting keeps things quiet until you're ready — see Search visibility (SEO).
Related pages
- Pages & blocks — build the page first.
- Versions & redirects — undo and protect links.
- Search visibility (SEO) — control public listing.