I’m hoping this post is in the appropriate location so apologies in advance if it is not!
I’m a Wix user and I just recently started exploring the Test Site/Release Manager feature in Wix, which is exactly what I was looking for. In working with it I could not figure out how to inform the editor that I wanted to work with the Test site and not the Live site. Release Manager does not have the switch and I could not find it anywhere.
I contacted Wix customer support (chat) and was told that this was a Velo issue and they could not provide me any information on it, so that is what led me here and to drop this post here.
Is there someone here who can address this issue and give me some guidance on how to edit Test sites in Wix?
Thank you Marlowe! I really appreciate the quick response!
Please allow me to walk through this scenario and let me know if this is correct. I have a current (Release) site, now I want to make some changes and test it out on a small percentage of users or perhaps to 0% users and just give out the new URL to select individuals for feedback. So let’s say I choose 0% to get the new test site and I will give the URL to a couple of people.
After I select to Create the test site (from the current Release version), all edits I make are ONLY to the new Test site and the release site stays exactly as it was. I can make as many changes as I want, and the changes are only to the Test site.
At some point, I can either promote Test to Release effectively accepting all the changes, or I can discard the Test version.
I have tested this out and, from my testing, this is NOT how it is working.
As above, I created a Test site and set exposure to 0%, then I started making edits and published those changes, and they were immediately published out the the LIVE SITE. This is exactly not what should have happened, correct? I have not yet promoted Test to Release, so why are changes I am making to this Test site immediately live to the world?
Am I doing something wrong when I edit the site after creating the TEST site? Again, how do I make edits to been seen by the test users (or those with the specific test URL) and NOT have those changes seen publicly?
If what you’re trying to do is have a test version to be shared with specific users you can do that by clicking the ‘Create Test Site’.
If the test version is ready to be published you can simply Publish the site.
If you made changes to the site after creating the test version and want to go back to the test version, you can use site history, filter to ‘Release Candidate’ and restore the relevant version (and can then publish it/continue making changes and create a new test version).
Thank you Aviv. Can you please walk me through the steps I would take to accomplish this:
I have a current site for my company. It is what I want all browsers in the public internet to see.
Now I want to make a change and I only want a few people in my organization to see these changes and review/approve before I push them out on the publicly facing site.
How to make those changes and insure it is only for internal users and not the public? How/when do I create a Test site with these specific changes?
You can make those changes and as long as you don’t publish the site, just create a test site, you’ll be able to keep the current experience public and share the test trl with a few people.
If/when test version is ready to be published you can publish your site.
This is so incredibility confusing. Wix does a lot of amazing things, but the site build and publishing life cycle support needs serious upgrading. I want to be able to make multiple edits to a version of the site in the editor under the context of that version, aka “staging” and share a link to it that is separate from the public site. When ready, I need a clear UI that allows me to publish that version. Ideally in the context of the editor. You can sort of do this right now, but it results in a new version every time you want to share changes which is not very useful. And, you’re alway in danger of accidentally over writing your current published site.
I see that Wix is advertising to “agencies” lately. I work for an agency and I don’t see how this is enterprise level at all. I would be very concerned using this set up for paying clients.
