Publishing and domains

A page needs a connected, active domain before it can go live. Nothing publishes to a temporary address.

Connect a domain. Go to Settings → Domains (/account/domains) and open Connect a domain. Pick a subdomain from the list or type your own, enter the domain you own, and click Connect. You always publish on a subdomain such as www.yourdomain.com, never the bare root.

The screen then shows one DNS record to add at your registrar, with Type, Name / Host and Value / Target. Add it where you bought the domain, then come back and click Check status. The status pill moves from Pending to Live, and the row reads "This domain is live. Pages you publish can use it."

About HTTPS. The certificate is requested for you as part of connecting. A domain is only marked Live once both the hostname and its certificate are active, so if it says Live, your pages already serve over HTTPS.

Publishing a page. From the pages list, click the status pill and choose Publish, or use the Publish button in the builder toolbar. The dialog asks for:

• Domain, from your active domains.
• URL path, the slug. Lowercase letters, digits and hyphens.
• Set as homepage (domain root), offered on website pages only. Setting it unsets whichever page held that role before.

Landing pages, blog pages and funnels always serve at their slug.

What a visitor gets. The published page renders with the header and footer set you assigned, at https://yourhost/your-slug, or at the bare root if it is the homepage. Your domain also serves /robots.txt and /sitemap.xml automatically, and the sitemap lists only pages that are published and public.

Access rules. In Edit details, Who can see this page offers Anyone (public), Members only, or Members with a specific tier once you have tiers. A visitor who is not logged in is sent to the member login page instead.

Taking a page down. Switch the status pill back to Draft and the address stops resolving. Archiving a page hides it publicly without deleting it, and an archived page can no longer be a homepage.

Checking your work. Each published row gets a Copy link icon and a Preview icon. In the builder, Preview renders the last saved version exactly as it would publish, and View page in the Publish dropdown opens the live address.

Related: Headers and footers and Creating a page.