Automatic updates before publishing!

[bluesky2]

I have not worked in Weebly for several months but recently started some updates on my website. It now seems that Weebly automatically updates your page changes even if you do not publish it. Is this true or is there a setting I need to change? I just lost a post that will take me weeks to rebuilt. I am incensed over this!

[monstr]

This is a major problem that has been talked about before. There is no setting to change that unfortunately. Try clearing your browser's cashe, perhaps this could resolve your issue. Cheers!

[Adam7]

Have you published recently, guys? The way our publishing mechanism works is like this: 

The live version of your site is basically a cached version of what you have in the editor. When you publish your site, we clear the old cache and the first time you view the site after publishing it generates a new cache based on what you have in the editor.

This means that if you publish and don't look at the site (and no one else does) and continue to make changes, when you do finally look at the site it'll use whatever is in the editor then.

Long story short, just visit your site after you publish and you shouldn't see this happen.

[shamiana]

not working that way. Should but not. it's pushing changes live without a PUBLISH.
I just changed font color on a paragraph - reloaded LIVE page before doing a PUBLISH - and the new color showed. Text I needed to recover - gone. no undo.

[techie1]

It's 2018 and this is still happening. Why in the world would I want what is in my weebly editor to be pushed to my live site? It's a work in progress. Weebly, how about fixing it so that no changes are pushed to my site until I hit "publish?"

[Adam7]

Did you see my post above about how our publishing mechanism works, @techie? Try visiting any page on your live site that you plan to edit before you start editing. That should lock in the live cache of the page so that changes in the editor don't show until another publish. If you're adding new pages you don't need to do that for those.

[shamiana]

I'm sorry - I'm throwing the BULL**bleep** flag.

Why do UNPUBLISHED CHANGES - PUBLISH to the site as they are made.

What is being done to FIX THIS ?

I know you can restore a specific page - as I've had weebly simply WIPE out whole pages before.  But I had to remember the name blah blah blah ..

So there is a penalty flag on the field against weebly.

What is being done to fix this BIG BIG BIG problem ?

Yes it's happening to me too.  NO it's not a browser cache problem or we'd NEVER see the new info and would only see the old.  hello ...

[Brodie]

The problem is, shamiana, we haven't received reports about this type of problem. If others aren't experiencing it and we can't recreate it on our end, we will need a lot more information from you to investigate this.

The usual troubleshooting...

What browser are you editing on? (Firefox, Safari, Chrome, etc.) What other browsers have you tried to edit on since?

What internet connection are you on? (Home, work, university, etc.) Are there any firewalls or antivirus programs there, and have you attempted your edits after disabling them?

What devices are you accessing the editor with? (Desktop, laptop, mobile app, etc.) Have you tried any other device and do you see the same behavior?

Also, send us a video capture in a support ticket, and we can look at what's happening on your screen.

[slantconcepts]

Just adding in that it is also occuring for us in late 2019. The site is essentially autopublishing without our permission. So partially edited pages are being pushed to the public.

[Adam7]

The publishing mechanism hasn't been changed, so I would expect the same behaviors to occur @slantconcepts. The simplest way to avoid this is to just view the published page on your site before you make edits to that page in the editor; you'll only need to do this once unless you publish your site, in which case you'd want to visit the page you plan to edit again.

[jays1]

it's 2021.

Moderator Please listen to the community. I've read all your answers, and they are not helpful at all.

We don't want others to see us editing the site before we hit publish.
What's the point of the button 'publish' when it is already published without us hitting 'publish'

and everyone can see what we are testing (layout, colour, text etc.) 
It makes no sense! Please review and it its a very important part of the user experience of us using weebly.

[Adam7]

Hi @jays. As long as you've viewed the page you want to edit at some point since the last time you published, any changes made to the page won't show until you publish again. The only time something like this can happen is if you publish your site and the page in question is never viewed.

[piiscool]

Bumping. This is terrible. Just accidentally deleted elements on my home page, never clicked publish, tried to go to my home page externally, and elements were gone. Don't know why the moderator seems to not believe these criticisms, but they are definitely alluding to a large problem in the publishing mechanism here. Fix it.

[SueChap]

Adam, the point we're all making here is that we shouldn't have to "just view the published page on your site before you make edits to that page in the editor". It's just happened to me now, and I'm doing a LOT of changes on my site at the moment as part of a revamp. This is a major fundamental problem with Weebly. At the end of the day, if we are making changes of any kind then NOTHING should change on the live site until we hit the Publish button. End of.

Can this please be addressed as matter of urgency?!