Publishing and domains

A page needs a connected, active domain before it can go live. Nothing is published at a temporary address.

Connect a domain

Go to Settings → Domain and open the domain connection. Pick a subdomain from the list or type your own, enter a domain you own and click Connect. You always publish on a subdomain, for example www.yourbusiness.ae, never on the bare root address.

The screen shows one DNS record to add at your domain registrar, broken down into Type, Name or Host, and Value or Target. Add it wherever you bought your domain, come back and click Check status. The status badge moves from Pending to Active, and a line confirms that the domain works and published pages can use it. Details and common problems are covered in the Connecting your own domain guide.

You don’t need to think about HTTPS. The certificate is requested automatically as part of connecting. A domain only gets the Active status once both the address and its certificate work, so if you see Active, your pages are already served over HTTPS.

Publish a page

In the page list, click the status badge and choose to publish, or use the publish button in the editor toolbar. The dialogue asks for:

• The domain, from your active domains.
• The URL path, or slug. Lower-case letters, digits and hyphens.
• Whether to set it as the domain’s home page, available only for website pages. Setting it takes that role away from the page that held it before.

Landing pages, blog pages and funnels are always served at their slug.

What the visitor gets

A published page renders with its assigned header and footer set, at https://your-address/your-slug, or at the root address itself if it is the home page. Your domain also serves /robots.txt and /sitemap.xml automatically, and the sitemap lists only published, public pages.

Access rules

In the page details, the “Who can see this page” field offers: everyone, members only, or members with a specific level, when you have levels. A visitor who isn’t logged in is sent to the member login page. See Members-only pages.

Taking a page down

Switch the status badge back to draft and the address stops responding. Archiving hides the page publicly without deleting it, and an archived page can no longer be the home page.

Checking the result

Every published row gets a copy link icon and a preview icon. In the editor, preview renders the last saved version exactly as it would be published, and opening the page from the publish drop-down opens the live address.

Related guides: Headers and footers and Creating a new page.