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How to undo a change that went wrong

A change you haven't published yet can be discarded. If you've already published it, one button takes your website back to how it was before the last publish.

In the editor: 2 unpublished changes on the bar, Discard in the ⋯ menu, the browser's confirmation and the price list is back. Then a price of £8 published by mistake, Undo last publish in the ⋯ menu, confirmation, and the website is back at the previous version.
First, the animation discards unpublished changes. Then it undoes a published mistake with the Undo last publish button. On a phone, both buttons are in the ⋯ menu.

Steps

  1. Open your website in editing mode. The bar at the top shows how many unpublished changes you have, for example 2 unpublished changes.
  2. The Discard and Undo last publish buttons are on the bar next to Publish. On a smaller screen, they're tucked into the ⋯ menu on the far right. Click it.
  3. To cancel changes you haven't published yet, use the Discard button. All unpublished changes are discarded at once. If you have nothing unpublished, the button is grey.
  4. Your browser asks whether you really want to discard them and warns that this can't be undone. Confirm with OK. The page reloads and the public website stays as it was.
  5. If you've already published a mistake, click Undo last publish and confirm with OK. Your website goes back to how it was before the last publish, the public one too.
  6. Each further click on Undo last publish takes your website back one more publish.

Tip: Before you click Undo last publish, make a note of your unpublished changes. Going back discards them. The undo itself can't be reversed with a button. Another click takes the website back one more publish.

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