Editing your site
Going back to an earlier version
There are two histories, and they answer different questions. Knowing which one you want takes ten seconds and saves a lot of guessing.
"I want the site the way it looked last Tuesday"
That is published versions. Your site → Versions. Every version you have published is listed with the date, and Restore puts one back live immediately.
Versions are kept for 7 days, plus the one immediately before the current one, which is always kept however old it is. So the undo button for a bad publish never runs out, but "the site as it was last month" does.
"I want the wording I had before I rewrote this page"
That is your editor history, and it lives in the editor's publish panel. Each entry has a label saying where it came from:
| Label | When it was taken |
|---|---|
| Published | Every time you publish |
| While you were editing | Automatically, at most once every ten minutes |
| Before the design changed | Just before you switched to a different design |
| Before you went back | Just before you restored an older version |
Press Go back to this and that version becomes what you are editing.
Two things worth knowing:
- It does not republish. Your live site does not move. Look at what came back, and press Publish when you are happy.
- Going back is itself undoable. Your current draft is saved as a version first, so a restore you regret is one more restore away.
Roughly the last 40 versions of a site are kept, of which up to 20 are the automatic ones, and the three newest are never removed to make room.
Inside the tab you are working in
⌘Z / Ctrl+Z. The editor's History button lists every step since you opened the tab. That list is not saved anywhere — it clears when the tab closes, and it says so at the top. It is for the last five minutes, not the last five days.
What none of this covers
- Files you uploaded as a zip are versions too, and live in the same Versions list — 7 days, same as the rest.
- A site you deleted is not in either history. It is in the trash, for 30 days: see Deleted a site by mistake?.
- A picture you deleted from the library is gone from the library, though a version published while it was still there keeps working for as long as that version is kept.