Publishing Your Site
Publishing is how you take the site you have built with Kite and make it live on the internet. Until you publish, your work exists as a draft in the editor.
When you publish, Kite deploys your latest changes to a free <name>.kite.space web address that anyone can visit. Publishing is also a prerequisite for connecting your own custom domain. When Kite ships a site change from Slack on your say-so, it runs the same publish for you.
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You can publish as many times as you like. Each publish pushes your most recent edits live, and it takes about 40 seconds.
In this section
- How to Publish Your Site: the step-by-step for going live.
- Your Free kite.space URL: choose your address, rename it later, and how it works alongside a custom domain.
- My Changes Aren't Showing on the Live Site: fix the most common "I edited it but the live site looks the same" problem.
- Take Your Site Offline: what is and is not possible.
- Why Did Publishing Fail?: common reasons a publish does not go through and how to fix them.