Publishing and updating
What the Publish button does, your site address, and when content changes reach your live site.
In Entrobase, the site you are working on and the site your visitors see are two separate things. The Publish button is the bridge between them.
Once that distinction clicks, most of the common problems disappear.
What Publish does
Publishing takes the current state of your site, prepares it and puts it online. It usually takes a few minutes, and you can watch the progress on screen.
- Your first publish gives you a free address:
yoursite.entrobase.site - The address works immediately with no extra setup.
- If you connect your own domain, the site is reachable from both addresses.
- When publishing finishes, the card image in My apps updates to match your new site.
When changes reach your live site
There is no automatic update
Nothing reaches your live site on its own. New blog posts, new products, category changes, plugin installs and design edits all require you to press Publish again.
This is what makes your site fast: pages are not calculated when a visitor arrives, they are prepared ahead of time when you publish. In exchange, you decide when updates go out.
| What you did | To make it live |
|---|---|
| Edited the design via chat | Publish |
| Wrote or edited a blog post | Publish |
| Added a product or changed a price | Publish |
| Installed or removed a plugin | Publish |
| Changed search engine settings | Publish |
| Connected a domain | No publish needed, it works once the connection completes |
Batch your work
If you are adding five blog posts, publish once at the end rather than after each one.
I published but the site looks the same
If publishing succeeded but you still see the old version, your browser is usually showing a stored copy. Try these in order:
- Hard refresh the page:
Ctrl + F5on Windows,Cmd + Shift + Ron Mac. - Open it in a private window. If the new version shows there, your site is fine and it is your browser's stored copy.
- Check from your phone on mobile data.
- Wait a few minutes and look again.
If it is still old, make sure the change was actually published: looking right in the preview does not mean it went live.
If publishing fails
A failed publish does not break your site; the live version stays exactly as it was. What to do:
- Read the error on screen, it usually names the page with the problem.
- Go back to the chat, say "I got this error while publishing" and paste the message. The AI will attempt a fix.
- Publish again after the fix.
- If the same error repeats three times, undo your last big change, publish, then reintroduce the change in smaller steps.
Taking a site down
- Deleting the project also takes the live site down. Deletion cannot be undone.
- A domain you connected stays yours and can be pointed at another project.
- To take a site offline temporarily, disconnecting the domain is the most practical route.