Sometimes I’m working on different pages at a time, some not all completely finished. Now when clicking on “publish” the whole site is published at ones, not finished pages included.
Is it possible to change the “publish” to the choise “whole site” & “current page” so that it’s possible to choose what we want to see published on the site?
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What they need is two publish buttons. One for the whole site and one for the current page.
It’ll make the life of the support team pretty difficult. Users will publish a version of the site that has never existed on the editor and has never been tested prior to publishing.
I will happily vote for it, but I doubt it’ll be be welcomed.
@jonatandor35 How do you publish a non existing version of a site? If it doesn’t exist in the editor, it’s impossible to publish for as far as I know, no?
@jonatandor35 I don’t quite get your logic…
@gernoasje If I got you correctly, that what you were saying:
Let’s say this is the current state -
Live site:
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page number 1: version 1
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page number 2: version 1
Editor: -
page number 1: version 2
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page number 2: version 2
Now the user wants to release version 2 of page number 1 (only).
So the live site will have the following combination: -
page number 1: version 2
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page number 2: version 1
In that case you release a combination that (maybe) has never existed in the editor.
Am I wrong?
@jonatandor35 I fail to see how that would be a problem…
@deleteduser
For example, let’s say you changed the code in the site panel and in a certain page panel, then you publish the specific page, (the new version of the site code which also runs on this specific page will not be released) and therefore the page won’t behave the same in the editor and on live. The user, who doesn’t realize the reason for the different behavior, fills out an angry ticket and sends it to the support team (and it’s not difficult to think of other problematic scenarios as well, since pages are linked).
As I said, these problems don’t bother me. I wish Wix was more permissive, but they don’t even let you to delete a field from your collection, because they think you’re too stupid for that, so…
@jonatandor35 Stop thinking about the things that could go wrong!!
Many other Website Editors have this option, and they don’t have any problems.
@deleteduser I will definitely vote for this feature. No doubt it will upgrade the development process
When having a local (on your pc) GUI for editing and creating websites like Dreamweaver or other, it’s possible to only ftp those pages you want to to your webspace. So you only publish, by ftping, those pages that you want to to your website for users to be seen.
Wix editor is in fact an online GUI for editing and creating websites instead of Dreamweaver like programs. When you click on publish it publishes the whole website you created, by that I mean ALL pages finished or not, dashboard or not.
The only way they have now for you is to “hide” website pages you don’t want to be seen by users viewing your website. Dashboard pages don’t have that option. So when publishing your entire site, Dashboard pages are published too… finished or not…
So a better idea for everybody would be to have a possibility (by buttons, menu, list or whatever type of possibility), to only publish those pages you want to be published and to be seen by users (backend or frontend).
Agree… once your website gets to be a little larger this becomes a huge issue. I’ve used other website builders and I guess I am spoiled. If I have a larger project/update like I do now and I have to make a small but important and immediate change. However, I am going to have to go back and undo everything I started because I can’t hide the page because it’s currently in use. Having the ability to publish by page makes perfect sense. and I’m a bit surprised it doesn’t exist. I actually didn’t even realize it …until I found out the hard way.
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