Drafts and live pages
Editing changes a draft. Publishing takes a snapshot of that draft and makes it the live page. Two consequences:- Continuing to edit after publishing does not change what visitors see.
- Your live page is a frozen snapshot, including the theme at the moment you published. Changing your site theme later does not restyle already published pages until you publish them again.
Publish again after any change you want the public to see. This includes changes made
in the Website Editor and a change to your
affiliate tag.
The readiness check
Right before publishing, Guino checks whether the page can actually do its job and shows you what it found.
A failed check never prevents a publish. It is your page and “Publish anyway” is always
a real option. Only blockers interrupt, because a check that interrupts on everything
gets ignored on everything.
What Guino enforces at publish
A few things are applied server side, so they are guaranteed on the live page no matter what the editor did:- The affiliate disclosure, with fixed wording, near the top.
- A call to action.
- Affiliate links written as direct Amazon links carrying your tag and marked as sponsored.
- A language check on your own text. Slurs and strong profanity block publishing; mild words produce a warning only.
The language check runs at publish only, never on autosave. Autosave must always
succeed, because losing work over a half typed word would be a much worse failure than
a blocked publish.