Publishing and your page address
Check what is still the template's, publish a draft so anyone can open it, see who can view a draft, and change your page address.
Once you publish a page, anyone can open it at https://pressagen.com/@your-address. Until then the page is a draft that only you can see while signed in.
Check what is still the template’s
A page made from a template starts with the template’s sample words and pictures. The replacement checklist lists the ones you have not changed yet.
- In the editor, choose the Replacement checklist icon in the toolbar, or open Page settings and publishing and choose Open the replacement checklist.
- Next to each item, choose Edit this field for text, or Replace with your own picture for a picture.
- An item ticks itself off once you have changed it, and the list counts how many you have replaced.
The checklist is only a reminder. It never stops you from publishing.
Publish a page
- In the editor, choose the gear icon in the toolbar, Page settings and publishing.
- Choose Publish.
You can also choose Publish in the top corner of the editor. Either button publishes at once, without asking first.
The panel then shows Published with the page address, Copy link and Open page. The editor’s top corner and the page’s card on your dashboard also show Published.
After you publish, your edits are still saved automatically about a second after you make them, but visitors keep seeing the published version until you publish the changes. Undo (Ctrl+Z) restores page content only; it never changes whether the page is published or its page address.
Publish your changes
While a published page has edits that visitors do not see yet, the editor’s top corner shows Unpublished changes.
- To check them first, open the arrow next to the status in the top corner and choose Preview changes. The preview opens in a new tab, and only you can see it.
- Choose Publish changes in the top corner, or in Page settings and publishing.
Visitors see the changes the next time they open the page, and the corner shows Up to date until your next edit. Your page address and whether the page is published change at once and never wait for Publish changes.
To go back to the published version instead, choose Discard unpublished changes in Page settings and publishing, then Discard changes in the confirmation. This cannot be undone.
Publishing has limits, per page each minute and per account each hour, which everyday use does not reach. Each page keeps its 10 most recent published versions.
Switch back to draft
- Open Page settings and publishing.
- Choose Switch to draft next to the status.
- In the confirmation, choose Switch to draft again.
The page becomes a draft again, and anyone else who opens its address sees Page not found. Unpublished changes stay in the page and go live the next time you publish it.
Who can see a draft
- Only the page’s owner, and only while signed in.
- Everyone else, including other accounts and search engines, sees Page not found at the draft’s address.
- When you open your own draft, a banner at the top says it is a draft and offers a link to open the editor.
Change your page address
The page address is the part after /@. You choose it.
- In Page settings and publishing, find your page’s address (/@your-address) under the page name and choose it.
- Type the new address and wait until the line under the field says it is available.
- Choose the save button, or press Enter.
- If the page is published, a confirmation appears first; choose Change address.
A page address must follow these rules:
- 3 to 30 characters.
- Lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens only, with no hyphen at the start or end and no two hyphens in a row.
- Not a word reserved by the system, a protected trademark, a restricted word or an official template’s address.
- Not used by another page.
- Not an address that another account let go of in the last 30 days.
How changes work:
- You can change a page’s address once every 7 days. The first change after you create the page has no wait.
- Changing back to the address you just left counts as an undo: it has no 7-day wait and does not start a new one.
- When you change a page’s address or delete the page, the old address is held for 30 days, so no other account can take it straight away.
After you change the page address, the old address sends visitors to the new one for 30 days, as long as the page is published. Links you have shared and QR codes you have printed keep working during that time. After 30 days the old address shows Page not found, so update your links and QR codes before then.