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Edit a published post

What Unpublished changes means, how Update, Discard changes and History work, and how to take a post down or delete it.

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  • blog
  • edit
  • update
  • history
  • unpublish

You can keep editing a post after it is live. Your edits are saved as you type, but readers keep seeing the version that is live until you decide to put the changes up. That way nobody ever sees half an edit.

  1. Open the post and edit it

    Click it on the Posts list. As soon as you change anything its label becomes Unpublished changes, and the main button reads Update.

  2. Check it

    Preview shows the post with your changes, as a reader would see it. The live post is not touched.

  3. Press Update

    The changes go live, and a message says Your changes are live. The label goes back to Published. An update never emails anybody.

What waits for Update, and what does not

The title, subtitle, cover, words, blocks, excerpt and search text all wait for Update. A few things act at once, even on a live post: the post's Link (the old link keeps working), its Categories, who it is By, and Feature this post.

Changed your mind

Open the menu at the top right of the editor (the three dots) and pick Discard changes. The post goes back to what readers see now. The discarded changes stay in History, so you can bring them back.

History

History in the editor's top bar lists earlier versions of the post, newest first. Open one to see what restoring it would change, then press Restore this version. A post keeps its newest 20 versions, for up to 60 days, and saves a version as you work rather than at every keystroke.

Restoring changes the words only. It never moves the post's link or changes whether it is live: on a live post a restore lands as Unpublished changes and goes live when you press Update. A restore and a discard can both be undone from History.

Take a post down

Open the post's menu and pick Unpublish, or use Unpublish on the Posts list. You are asked first: the post comes off your blog and its link stops working until you publish it again, and every word is kept as a draft. If you publish it again later, the button reads Publish again and nobody is emailed a second time.

Delete a post

Only a post that is not live can be deleted. Unpublish it first. Deleting cannot be undone, and if the post was ever live, its link stops working for good.

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