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My Changes Aren't Showing on the Live Site

This is one of the most common questions, and it usually has a simple cause: your edits live in the editor as a draft until you publish them.

Draft versus published: the key idea​

Kite has two versions of your site:

  • The editor and preview show your draft, including everything you have just changed.
  • The live site (your kite.space address or custom domain) shows only what you have published.

So if you edit something and it looks right in the editor but not on the live site, the change has not been published yet.

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Think of it like a document with a draft and a published copy. Editing the draft never changes the published copy until you hit Publish.

Fix it: step by step​

  1. Make sure you clicked Publish. Open your project and click Publish in the top-right corner. See How to Publish Your Site.
  2. If the button says No changes to update, your latest edits are already live. The problem is caching, so go to step 4.
  3. Allow about 40 seconds for the deploy to finish. The panel shows Published · just now when it is done.
  4. Hard-refresh your browser to clear its cache:
    • Windows: Ctrl + Shift + R
    • Mac: Cmd + Shift + R
  5. Try a private window or a different device to rule out caching entirely.
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Browsers aggressively cache websites. A normal refresh may still show the old version. A hard refresh or a private window is the reliable test.

Multi-page sites: a subpage shows the homepage​

On multi-page sites, sometimes a subpage serves the homepage content instead of its own. This is usually a page or navigation setup issue rather than a publishing one. See Pages and navigation.

Troubleshooting​