Publishing your site

When your site looks right in the preview, the Publish button in the top-right corner takes it live.

What happens when you publish

1. Click Publish. The button shows live progress — preparing, building, uploading.
2. Genesis builds an optimized production version of your site and deploys it.
3. 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 your project’s address. You can connect a custom domain in Project Settings — you’ll get the DNS records to add at your domain registrar, and Genesis verifies them automatically.

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 Marketing Tags, 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).