Publish with one button. Check it on staging first.

Staging and production

Staging is a private copy of the site at its own link. The live site doesn’t change. Use it to check a change on your phone, or send it to a client to approve.

Production is the real thing: the address people visit. Publishing there replaces what’s live.

You can publish to both at once, or to staging now and production after someone says yes. There is more on when to use each in staging vs production.

What you see while it publishes

The panel shows each step as it happens: preparing, building the site, uploading, going live. If something stops it, Devdwell says what went wrong in plain words and leaves the live site as it was.

Before you publish

• The panel warns you when the site has been edited since the last publish, and when.
• It shows when each address was last published, so you know what you’re replacing.
• You can open each address from the panel to look at what’s there now.

After you publish

The site’s card says Live, with its address and “published just now”. Everyone you’ve shared the site with sees the same. The web app’s Activity tab keeps a list of who published what, and when.

Publishing from your phone

People you’ve given “Can edit and publish” can publish from the web app too, and so can you: open the site, go to Publish, and confirm. See the web app.

Questions