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Site Draft & Publish

Getting Started



This documentation will guide you through the process required to Draft & Publish your site i.e. how you can save your website as a draft & publish it.


Draft Site



A draft site is a website that is not published yet. When you click on the Save button in the top navigation, it saves the changes as a draft. You can save both Classic & CMS sites as a draft.

Dorik Draft Site


Published Site



When you publish a website it goes live with an URL (Subdomain or Custom Domain). The published website can be accessed with the URL by anyone.

To publish a website for the first time in CMS, follow the steps below —

- Click on the Publish button on the top navigation.
- The Publish modal will appear
- Enter the Project Name & set the Site URL as a custom domain or subdomain
- Enter the Domain Name & press Publish Site
- To visit the site, click on the button right next to Publish

The Images below show the whole process being demonstrated visually ⬇️

Click on the Publish button on the top navigation.

Publish Button

The Publish modal will appear as shown below:
Enter the Project Name & set the Site URL as a custom domain or subdomain
Enter the Domain Name & press Publish Site

Publish Site Modal

To visit the site, first click on the Publish button, and then click on the icon next to the Domain

View published site


Saving changes as a draft in the Published Site



When you edit/make changes to a published website in Classic or CMS. If you click Save then the changes will be saved as a draft and won't be updated on the live site. To update the live website you have to click Publish.


Saving Pages as a draft with Dorik CMS



If you don’t want to publish any specific page of your website & save it as a draft only, you can do it with Dorik CMS.

Follow all the steps below to learn how to save pages as a draft in Dorik CMS —

- Go to Design & Pages under Styles and Settings in your CMS dashboard
- When redirected to your website builder, click on 📑 Pages from the upper left corner of your website builder
- After clicking Pages, a sidebar will appear
- Select the Page you want to save as a draft
- Click on the dropdown arrow from the right-side panel of the Page box
- Uncheck the Published option & your page will be saved as a draft

💡Drafting a page is the same as 'unpublishing' a page

The Images below show the whole process being demonstrated visually ⬇️

Go to Design & Pages under Styles and Settings in your CMS dashboard
When redirected to your website builder, click on 📑 Pages from the upper left corner of your website builder

Pages

After clicking Pages, the following sidebar will appear:

Unpublish a page

Select the Page you want to save as a draft
Click on the dropdown arrow from the right-side panel of the Page box
Uncheck the `Published` option & your page will be saved as a draft

💡 However, the above-mentioned Published option is only for the Dorik CMS site.


To see the whole process at a glance, refer to the video below ⬇️

Dorik Draft Page


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Updated on: 26/02/2025

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