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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 until you publish them.

Preview vs. published: the key idea​

Kite has two versions of your site:

  • The editor and preview show your work-in-progress, including everything you've just changed.
  • The live site (your kite.space address or custom domain) shows only what you've published.

So if you edit something and it looks right in the editor but not on the live site, the change simply hasn't 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 actually clicked Publish. Open your project and click Publish in the top-right corner. See How to Publish Your Site.
  2. If Publish shows no pending changes but the live site still looks stale, try publishing again to force a fresh deploy.
  3. Allow a short time for the deploy to finish before checking the live site.
  4. Hard-refresh your browser to clear its cache:
    • Windows: Ctrl + Shift + R
    • Mac: Cmd + Shift + R
  5. Try an incognito/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 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.

Troubleshooting​