Publishing

Publishing

CraftPages publishes to Cloudflare (free static hosting, see Setting up Cloudflare) or to any web host over FTP, FTPS or SFTP (see Publishing to a web host). Once that's set up, click Publish site at the bottom of the sidebar, then Publish to the live site.

• Only changed files are uploaded. The Publish screen lists the pages that change with the next publish. The first publish uploads everything.
• Before uploading, CraftPages refreshes the sitemap (if automatic) and the site-search index.
• Unsaved edits aren't published. If some pages have unsaved edits, the Publish screen names them and offers Save all and publish, or Publish without them.

Publish history

Every publish is kept as a version in the project folder (.sitecms/store/), with what changed: new, changed and removed files, who published it and where. Publish → Publish history lists them.

• Restore… puts the site files in the folder back as they were in that version. It can be undone. Publish afterwards to put it live.
• Save as folder… writes that version out as a complete, separate project.

Unchanged files are stored once, however many versions hold them, so history takes little space.

Rolling back on Cloudflare

Publish → On Cloudflare lists the versions Cloudflare keeps. Roll back… puts an earlier one live again, immediately. Your folder isn't changed: the next publish sends what's in the folder. (A web host keeps no versions: use Restore… in Publish history, then publish.)

"The live site was published from somewhere else"

CraftPages stops before publishing over a version that this folder didn't publish, because that would wipe out someone else's changes. See Working with others.