Edit, preview and publish your site

Make changes in the website editor

Open Website in your dashboard to edit your site’s pages, layout and look. A template is a starting point: replace its examples with your own work and check the links you want visitors to use.

Preview your site on a computer and on a phone with the buttons in the editor’s bar. Your members’ app is designed separately, in the App studio: changing your website does not change your app, or the other way round.

Your changes are kept as a draft

The editor saves each change as a draft a moment after you make it, so there’s nothing to save. Visitors continue to see the published version while you work.

Publishing makes your changes public

Choose Publish in the editor’s bar, or in your dashboard while it shows unpublished changes. Publishing puts your whole draft live, including changes saved in Settings, so check more than the section you just edited.

Members-only content still follows its access rules. A public page layout does not make a paid post or video public. Use See it as in the editor’s bar to check a page as a visitor, a free member or a paying member.

Posts, videos and products are published from their own editors.

Delete a page

Open Pages in the editor. A page’s … menu has Delete, and its Page settings have Delete this page. Deleting takes the page off your site straight away, without waiting for you to publish. Home can’t be deleted.

To keep a page but take it out of your menu, choose Hide from the menu instead.

A feature’s page, such as Blog or Merch, comes with the feature. Turn the feature off under Settings › Site to take its page off your site when you next publish. What’s in it, such as your posts or products, stays.

Sign in, Create an account and your policy pages are on every site, listed under Sign-in and policies. If you delete your own version of one, the standard page comes back.

Start over with a different design

Open Template in the editor, choose another one to see it on your site, then choose Use this template. Your draft takes that template’s look and pages, and your name, pictures, posts, products and members stay as they are. Your live site doesn’t change until you publish, so you can take your time, and Go back to your last design undoes it.

Taking your site offline

There’s no way to unpublish your whole website from the dashboard. If you need it taken offline, contact us.

You don’t need to unpublish to redesign your site: visitors see the published version until you publish your changes.

Your website address

Your drate.app address stays with your site, whichever template you use. It can’t be changed after setup, but you can use your own domain, and your Drate address keeps working beside it.