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.

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.



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



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

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



After clicking Pages, the following 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

💡 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 ⬇️

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Updated on: 26/02/2025