Saving and Publishing
Two buttons doing two jobs — and the answer to most "where did my change go" questions.
Two buttons, two different jobs, and the difference is the single most useful thing to understand about the editor.
Save records your changes in Zyntro. The page is safe, you can leave and come back, and nothing about what visitors see has changed.
Publish takes the saved page and makes it the live version at its address.
Steps
Save as you work
The Save button changes appearance once you have unsaved changes. Press it, or use Ctrl/Cmd + S.
Saving writes the sections you edited and takes a version snapshot of the page beforehand, so each save leaves a point you can return to.
Actions that go through Webby — asking for a change, adding a section, reordering, deleting — are written as they happen and do not wait for a save. It is inline edits that need saving.
Publish when the page is ready
Publish saves anything outstanding first, then publishes. You do not have to remember to save before publishing.
After publishing, the page is the live version at its address. On a site that is not yet on a domain, that means the staging address; on a live site, it means your domain.
Know what publishing does not do
Publishing affects this page. It does not publish other pages you have edited, and it does not take a site live — pointing a domain is a separate step entirely.
It also does not touch your header and footer, which are shared by the whole site and update as soon as you save them in Site Settings.
If a change is not showing up
Work through it in this order. Did you Save? Did you Publish? Is the change to the page or to the site's header and footer — because those live in Site Settings and need no publish at all.
That sequence accounts for nearly every case of an edit that seems to have vanished.
Result
A published page, live at its address, with your unsaved work no longer at risk.
