Publishing your site
Push your site live with one click — what happens during publish, opening the live site, performance audits, and unpublishing.
When your site looks right in the preview, the Publish button in the top-right corner takes it live.
What happens when you publish
- Click Publish. The button shows live progress — preparing, building, uploading.
- Genesis builds an optimized production version of your site and deploys it.
- When it's done, a green Open site button appears — click it to view your live site in a new tab.
You can keep editing while you think — publishing only ships what's there when you click. A Cancel appears during the process if you change your mind.
Note
The Publish button is disabled while the AI is generating or while a publish is already running. If your subscription is inactive, publishing pauses until you reactivate.
Your site's address
Your site publishes to its Genesis address (yourproject.genesis.estage.com). To serve it on
your own domain — mysite.com — add the domain to your workspace and connect it to the
project: see Adding a custom domain and
Connecting a domain to a project.
After you publish
- Performance audits — run a Google PageSpeed audit per page with one-click AI fixes. See Performance audits.
- Republish anytime — publish again after changes; the new version replaces the old one.
- Tracking & analytics — your Pixels & Tracking, Code Injection, and Analytics are all baked into the published site.
Unpublishing
To take your site offline from search engines, use Unpublish in Settings → General. It tells search engines to stop indexing; your project and content remain intact, and you can publish again whenever.
Publish checklist
Before going live, a quick sanity pass:
- Click through your nav — every link goes somewhere real.
- Check Tablet and Mobile viewports.
- SEO: description + social-share image set.
- Favicon set in General.
- Forms and order forms configured (payments only work on the published site, not in preview).