Draft, preview and publish

Your public website has two versions at all times: the draft you are editing, and the published version visitors see. They are separate on purpose, and nothing you type reaches the public page until you press Publish.

Everything below is at the bottom of Studio then →Website.

Three buttons and a status light

A small dot and label on the left tells you the current state:

• Live (green) — the public page is showing a published website.
• Not published (grey) — visitors get the minimal registration page.

Then:

You do not have to save before publishing. Publish saves the form first and then promotes it, so one press is enough.

After a draft save on a live site the confirmation says so explicitly: "Draft saved. Your live site is unchanged until you Publish."

The two links

Just above the buttons:

• Open live site → /{your-slug}. What the public sees right now.
• Preview draft → /{your-slug}/preview. Your saved draft, rendered exactly as it would be published.

Both open in a new tab.

Who can see the preview

Only owners and admins of that studio. Anyone else — a parent, an instructor, a signed-out visitor, an admin of a different studio — gets a plain not-found page, which deliberately gives away nothing about whether a draft exists.

The preview also carries a fixed amber bar across the top reading "Preview — your current draft (not published live). Only visible to your studio's admins." so a screenshot of a preview is never mistaken for the real thing, and it is marked so search engines will not index it.

What publishing actually does

Publishing takes a frozen copy of your draft and stores it as the published version. From then on, the public page renders that copy — not your draft.

This is why:

• You can keep editing a live site all day without risk. Nothing visitors see changes until you publish again.
• A half-finished rewrite can sit in the draft indefinitely.
• Photos you removed from the draft are still served on the live page, because the published copy still refers to them. They are cleaned up only once a publish makes them genuinely unused.

Unpublishing

Unpublish asks first: "Take your public website offline? Visitors will see the minimal registration page until you publish again."

That is exactly what happens. /{your-slug} falls back to the plain page — your logo, name, town, a Register Now button, your contact details and the enquiry form. Registration keeps working the entire time. Your draft is kept intact, so Publish puts the site straight back.

Reasons to unpublish are rare: a closure, a rebrand mid-flight, or a page you would rather nobody saw while you rewrite it.

A sensible workflow

1. 1

   Edit freely

   Change template, colours, copy, photos — as much as you like. The live site is unaffected.

2. 2

   Save Draft

   Now the preview link works.

3. 3

   Preview

   Open Preview draft in a new tab. Check it on a phone too — most visitors are on one.

4. 4

   Publish

   One press. The live page updates immediately.

5. 5

   Check the live site

   Open live site and confirm you are seeing what you expected.

If something looks wrong on the live site

• You changed it but it hasn't changed publicly. You saved the draft and did not publish. Press Publish.
• The preview looks right and the live site doesn't. Same cause.
• A section is missing. Either its checkbox is unticked, or it is Programs or Schedule with no active records to show.
• The page is the plain registration page. You are unpublished — the status light will say Not published.

Last reviewed 2 August 2026