Publishing
One button, one URL. Here's what happens when you click Deploy.
The preview in the Studio is a temporary version of your site — great for working on, not meant to be your public address. When you're ready for the real thing, you publish. This gives you a permanent URL you can share with the world.
What publishing means#
Publishing takes a snapshot of your project as it looks right now and puts it on a permanent address. Nothing in the Studio changes — the preview keeps working, and you can keep editing. When you're ready to show the world what you've done since, you publish again.
Think of it like sending a book to print. You can keep writing while the previous edition is on the shelf, and when the new edition is ready, you print it too.
Click Deploy#
In the top-right corner of the Studio there's a button labeled Deploy. Click it. A small panel will appear showing you the progress. The whole thing takes about 30 to 60 seconds.
Your free URL#
The first time you publish, Wemob gives you a free address that looks like your-project.wemob.app. You can use this forever — it doesn't expire, it uses a proper web address with a green padlock, and it stays the same across publishes.
You can rename your project (and change the URL) from the Settings menu. The old address will automatically redirect to the new one for a while so any links you've already shared keep working.
Using your own domain#
If you own a domain like oliveto.cafe, you can point it at your Wemob site and use that instead of the free .wemob.app address. See Custom domains for the step-by-step.
Publishing updates later#
Every time you make changes and want the world to see them, click Deployagain. The live version will switch to the new one within a minute. Visitors in the middle of reading your site won't notice the switch.
The Deploytab in the Studio shows a list of every time you've published, with the date, what changed, and whether it worked.
Rolling back a bad version#
If you publish something and then notice a problem, you can switch the live site back to a previous version in three seconds. Open the Deploy tab, find a previous successful publish, and click Rollback. Visitors start seeing the old version within moments.