Drafts

Content and site configuration in Draft42 use a draft-first workflow. You edit a draft, preview it, and push it live when you're ready.

Draft and Live

Every piece of content — blog posts, doc pages, etc — has two versions: draft and live. The draft is your working copy. The live version is what readers see. The two stay independent until you choose to publish.

Site configuration works the same way. You can tweak fonts, colors, and other settings in the draft without affecting your live site.

Preview

Your draft site is always available at a separate preview address:

This shows all your latest changes — unpublished content and unpublished configuration — so you can see exactly how things look before going live.

Publishing

When you're happy with a draft, publish it from the platform UI to make it live.

If a post or page links to content that hasn't been published yet, you'll see a warning. You can publish anyway or go back and publish the linked content first.