Publishing content
When you publish content you make it available to your audience, for example on your website or a social media channel. Using scheduling, you can publish content at a date and time in the future.
The latest version of a content item or slot is published to our Content Delivery Network (CDN) and is available to consume in a website or from an app or e-commerce system. This will replace any previous published version of the content. If you mistakenly publish an item, you can restore a previous version.
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When an item is published, any assets contained within it and any linked content items are published at the same time. This includes media such as images or video included within the content and other content items that this item contains. For example, if you have a carousel that contains individual carousel slides, each stored as separate content items, each of these slides will be published with the carousel.
Publishing a slot will publish all of the items associated with that slot. For information about how to update content previously published to a slot in an edition, see Updating content published to slots.
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If content has been published, a publish status icon indicates its published status.
A green cloud with a check mark indicates that the latest version of the item is published.
If you are using scheduling, the content will be published on the start date of an edition, and that is when the publish status icon is updated. See Planning and scheduling.
An empty, green cloud indicates that an earlier version of the content is published and the content has been changed since last being published. For information about content versioning and revision history, see Content revision history.
When publishing is in progress, a spinner is displayed.
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To publish from the content library:
- Publish a single item - Choose "Publish" from the item's contextual menu
- Publish multiple items with bulk publish - Select up to 20 items, then click "Publish selected items" from either the toolbar, or the right-click menu. Tip, to select all items on a page use the "Select all" option. See Performing bulk actions
Note: If a bulk publish job fails, you should retry publishing, after checking if other users or processes are using bulk publish.
In this example, multiple content items are selected for bulk publishing:
A dialog asks you to confirm publishing. The selected items are then published along with all of their linked content. For example, if you select 3 carousels each containing 10 separate slides, in total 33 items will be published.
For each published item, the publish status icon is updated to a green check.
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When you publish content, all of its linked content is published too.
Here we're publishing the "Summer special collection carousel".
When the carousel is published, the publish status icon is displayed. The carousel slides have been published as well, but to see their updated publish status, you need to refresh the screen.
Refreshing the screen displays the publish status of summer slides 1 to 4.
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Publishing from the content form is convenient when creating, viewing or editing content.
To publish from the content form, open the "Save" menu (by clicking its down arrow) and click the publish option, which will be either:
- "Save and publish" if the content has been changed since it was last saved
- "Publish" if the content doesn't need saving
This example shows saving and publishing.
The content is published, along with any linked content, and its publish status icon changes to a green check.
