Publishing and visibility

Drafts and publishing, your website's address, password protection and taking a website offline.

Draft and publish

Everything you change in the builder is a draft. Visitors keep seeing the last published version until you press Publish at the top right of the builder. Publishing makes all pages of the site live at once.

Tip: changed something but visitors don't see it? Publish again, then reload the page.

The owner bar on your live website

Open your website with View live (the arrow-out icon in the builder, or on the website's Overview) and a dark bar shows on top of it, for you only:

Edit this page opens the builder on the page you are looking at (on a product page: that product).
Unpublished changes appears when the builder has edits visitors don't see yet.
Overview, Stats and Settings go straight to those pages in Fwdia.

It works on fwdia.com/... and on your own domain, and stays on that device for 30 days. The x hides it on that device; View live brings it back. Visitors never see it. The bar only links into Fwdia, which still asks you to log in as usual.

Your site's address

Every website gets a free address like fwdia.com/kX80nEo8. On Pro and Business you can claim a name, such as fwdia.com/bakery-ghent, under Settings > General & SEO > Custom address. Your QR code keeps working when you change the address. With your own domain (1 included on Pro, 3 on Business) your website lives at www.yourname.com instead.

Password protection (Pro and Business)

Under Settings > Privacy & branding > Visitor password, set a password. Visitors then see a password screen first. Handy for client previews, family pages or members only.

Taking a website offline

Under the website's Overview you can unpublish it: visitors get a "not found" page, but your content stays and you can publish again later. Deleting a website (Settings > Danger zone) removes it for good after a short grace period.

The "made with fwdia" badge

Websites on Free show a small "made with fwdia" badge at the bottom. On Pro and Business you can hide it under Settings > Privacy & branding, or in the builder under Theme > Fwdia badge.