Publishing
Preview your site at desktop, tablet, and mobile sizes, then publish it to a live conference URL from the Publish tab. Unpublish any time to take it offline while you keep editing.
Purpose
A site you're building stays in draft — visible only to you in preview — until you publish it. This page covers checking the site in Preview and taking it live (or back offline) from the Publish tab.
When you use it
Preview throughout building; publish when the site is ready for the public; and unpublish if you need to pull it back for major changes.
Walkthrough
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Preview. On the Preview tab, view the full site at desktop, tablet, and mobile widths, and switch between pages from the page selector. Use Open in new tab to see it as a visitor would.
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Publish. On the Publish tab, click Publish. The site goes live at your conference's public URL (
/c/your-conference-slug, with sub-pages under it for multi-page sites). - 3
Unpublish if needed. Click Unpublish to take the site offline. It stays fully editable and you can republish whenever you're ready.
Tips
While a site is in draft, only you (in the builder's preview) can see it — the public URL isn't serving it yet. Publishing is the switch that makes it visible to everyone.
Most conference visitors arrive on a phone. Use the mobile width in Preview to confirm your hero, dates, and navigation read well on a small screen before you go live.
Publishing controls the website itself, but a conference's overall status governs its public presence too. The Dashboard's Conference Status card shows whether the conference reads as public or preview-only — see the console Website tab.