# Preview, stage and revert a change

> The line between staged and live, why the preview is your real site rather than a mockup, and how to get an earlier version back.

The AI Site Builder · noboringsites documentation · https://noboringsites.com/docs/ai-site-builder/preview-stage-and-revert-a-change/

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Every change is drafted and staged before it is live, and it is revertible. This is the safety net under everything else in this section.

## Staged, then live

Two states, and only one of them is public.

- **Staged** - drafted, visible to you, invisible to everyone else.
- **Live** - published, and what a visitor gets.
- **Nothing crosses that line without you.** There is no auto-publish.

## You are looking at the real site

This is the difference from a mockup tool.

- **The preview is your actual site**, running your actual pages.
- **What you approve is what a visitor gets**, with no translation step in between.
- **A layout that works in the preview works live**, because they are the same thing.

## Going back

A published change is not a one-way door.

- **Every change is revertible.**
- **Reverting is itself a change**, so it stages the same way before it goes live.
- **Your old pages are not deleted** the moment a new one publishes.

## What to check before you publish

Four things, in about a minute.

1. Read the changed text out loud. Wrong facts hide better than wrong grammar.
2. Look at the page on a phone width, not only on your monitor.
3. Click the buttons you changed, including the ones in the footer.
4. Check the pages either side of it, in case a shared section moved.

## If something is wrong after it is live

Two routes, and both are quick.

- **Revert it** from the portal and the previous version comes back.
- **Email team@noboringsites.com** if a site we host is broken and you cannot get it back yourself. A person answers.