Safely changing website content using website versions

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Editing Content Fundamentals Website Management

When making updates to a live site, it is important to be able to test your changes before making them available to end users.

Versioning in Kademi lets you make changes to a new version of the site, and test the site, with the changes only being applied to the live site when you are ready.

Applying updates to a live website should always be done in a new version of the site.

A new site version can be created from the website management page, or the website editing page.

Website management page

To create a new site version from the website management page, go to Website Manager, then Websites, and click the settings icon next to the site you will be making the changes to.

The settings displayed for the site will be from the currently selected site version.

Website editing page

To create a new site version from the website editing page, go to Content, then Edit web pages, and ensure the correct website is selected.

The content displayed for the site will be from the currently selected site version.

To make changes to the site, click on the currently displayed site version, and click the copy icon next to the live site.

Enter a name for the new version of the site, and click Copy.

Select the new site version to edit it.

Content within the website is versioned, including pages and templates, theme, and enabled applications. Information outside the website is not versioned, e.g. users, groups, products, blogs, and journeys.

When your edits have been made and you have thoroughly tested the new version, the new site version can be published.

From the website editing page or website management page, click Publish.

Confirm that the correct version is being published, then click Publish Now.

Re-indexing is important for updating search functions to the new version of your site.

The version with the updates will become the live version, and read-only by default.