Launch and update your website

Publishing makes a page available to visitors. Saving a draft keeps your work in the editor. Always check the public address after publishing; the editor preview alone is not a launch check.

Before you publish

Review the page as a potential customer:

• Is it clear what you offer and who it is for?

• Are the contact details, prices and claims correct?

• Have you replaced placeholder images and example testimonials?

• Does each important button have a working destination?

• Can someone read the page and use the navigation on a phone?

• Does the page have an appropriate title, description and search visibility setting?

For a service website, test the full path from the homepage to contacting or booking with you. A good-looking homepage with a broken contact destination is not ready.

1. Save and preview the draft

Select Save Draft in the editor. Open Preview Draft Page and inspect the page at different widths. Use the device controls available in your current editor rather than relying on keyboard shortcuts from an older tutorial.

Check long headings, image crops, navigation, forms and any embedded content. Draft previews may not behave like a published website for form submission or third-party integrations.

2. Publish the intended pages

Select Publish and follow the checks or requirements shown. If a plan or domain step is required, complete it in the correct workspace. Wait for confirmation before treating the action as finished.

Check linked pages individually. Publishing a homepage is not evidence that every draft linked from it has also been published. Blog posts and documentation articles also need their own publication check.

3. Choose the public address

You can use a Pineapple subdomain or connect a custom domain. Your custom domain is purchased and renewed separately through your registrar.

For a custom domain, complete the DNS instructions shown in Pineapple and verify the connection. Publishing content and connecting a domain are separate steps; one does not replace the other.

4. Check the live website

Open the public URL in a separate browser window. Check the homepage, navigation and main contact action. For custom domains, verify the addresses shown in your domain setup, including the root and www versions where applicable.

For a contact form, use a test submission you control and check both the success message and the destination inbox. Check Forms and enquiries for the recipient setting and troubleshooting.

Update a published page

Edit the page, save your draft and preview it. Use the available publish or republish action when the new version is ready. Reopen the public page to confirm the actual change.

If the public version looks unchanged, confirm the correct page and domain, check the publication result and reload the public URL. For a domain connection error, use domain troubleshooting.

Help search engines discover the site

Review SEO settings, then check your sitemap. Publication does not guarantee that Google will index or rank a page immediately. Keep improving useful content and check the actual result in Search Console.

Can I download the website to host elsewhere?

Pineapple hosts the website through its publishing system. There is no standard website export/download option that packages the whole site for another host. Saving a draft, duplicating a page or copying a block is not a complete website export.

A custom domain points visitors to the hosted site; connecting one does not move the website code to your domain registrar. If you plan to leave Pineapple, prepare the replacement site and review domain changes separately before cancelling a subscription or deleting content. Keep your original business text and image files available.

Schedule a page or blog post

A schedule controls when an already-published page becomes available. It does not publish an unsaved draft for you.

Open SEO Settings → Page Details to find these controls. Scheduling is off in this example.

1. Open the page or blog post in the editor and select SEO Settings.

2. Open its page or blog details and find Schedule Publication.

3. Turn on Enable page schedule and choose the Publish Date, including the time. Check the date and time carefully before a timed launch.

4. Save the settings and your page content, then select Publish. Wait for the publication result.

5. Open the public URL before and after the selected time. Before the scheduled time, visitors see the scheduled-page state instead of the article. Allow for the published page to refresh after that time.

If you apply a future schedule to a page that is already live, its current content can become unavailable until the new time. Use a new draft page if you need the current page to stay visible while preparing a later replacement.

To change the schedule, return to Schedule Publication, update the date or turn scheduling off, save, and check the public URL again. Scheduling applies to that page; check linked pages and blog listings separately. It does not send a newsletter or schedule social posts.