I really need a way to work on a clients site and save changes without making them live. How things are is fine for new sites, but when making updates or changes to a published site, I need to allow the client to approve them before I publish them, however I can’t show them without saving, hence the problem.
I know I could make a draft on another page and hide it from navigation / put a password on it, but this is super inconvenient and a horrible work flow.
Hi @Chad_George, so you want a development branch where you can make changes on your website and your client have to approve or reject the merge with the changes you made before it goes to the main/production branch (live website).
Did I miss something, or do you have any other comments?
+1
That would be super helpful!
Basically yes, but even simpler, just break apart the Save and Publish Feature. I often find myself working on an update and can’t finish in one setting. I don’t want to lose my work, but I’m not ready to publish either. Mainly asking for a way to save changes without making them live on a published site.
+1 I up vote for this.
When we make many updates on a published website. I would like to save first, so I don’t lose the changes. And then preview it, tweak it again. And later decide to publish it and replace the production website.
That would indeed be great; just had that question today with a client myself.
Simply allow work in progress on changes or additions like many clients are used to from WordPress.
Thanks!
+1 that will be great feature so we can have a staging environment too.
Thanks for the feedback. I updated the feature request ticket. If you have more ideas, then keep going and share them with us.
I’ve seen other editors simply use a combination of a save button and auto save in the editor which allows team and clients to see the changes and then simply hit the publish/republish button to push it live.
A nice workaround would be:
Hope that helps!
Sitejet - in my opinion - too often requires workarounds even for features that are very common and built-in at other tools.
Same with maintenance mode (as I put a festure request on recently).
+1 - Really need to be able to have a webpage to have the ability to be live or draft like you can in wordpress.
Hey there,
Just checking: In Sitejet Studio, you can easily set up a website while you working on the new website and then, when finished, you can just re-connect / move the domain.
Do you use Sitejet Studio or with cPanel?
Hi Andre,
I am guessing your question is for us?
Creating the website in cms.sitejet.io (is that the studio you are referring to?).
The workaround you have suggested would not work in our use case. We need to be able to have a page on the live website that we can have set to draft until such time as it is needed and can then be set to live. For example, an events page that is live for a period of time and then disabled until needed again. Having to clone whole websites is not an option and somewhat of an overkill for such a simple feature.
Hope that helps clarify.
Thanks
I see.
Well, another way until this feature gets realized could be to unlink the website and set it to no index until you want the site to show up anywhere and gets available.
in my humble understanding SB could allow a preview link with a specific pin to be accessed remotely in read only mode (as it is), the pin can be revoked or replaced by the creator developer any time. I think it is not that complicated.
Not 100% sure if I understand correctly what you mean but the no-index would exactly be that plus you need to make sure the subpages are not linked on the website menu or anywhere, of course.