Publish your site
Put your site on the web at its own uova.io address. You choose the address once; after that, Update sends your latest edits live.
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Publishing copies your current draft to a live address. You keep editing the draft, and nothing you change reaches visitors until you click Update. Every plan can publish, including Free.
Live
Next time
Later edits reach the live site when you select Update.
#Before you start
- Sign in. A signed-out editor shows Sign in to publish instead of Publish.
- Replace the template's sample name. On a site started from a template, publishing stops while any page still names the template's sample business.
- Placeholders are safe to leave. An Add your … placeholder shows only in the editor, never on the live site.
- Legal pages stay hidden until you edit them. A draft privacy policy or terms page goes live only after your first change to it.
#Publish for the first time
Step 1: Click Publish
Publish sits at the right end of the editor's top bar. UOVA saves your latest edits before it starts.
Step 2: Choose your address
Type the part before
.uova.io. UOVA checks that it is free as you type and suggests your site's name. Add custom domain here starts connecting a domain you own.Step 3: Confirm who can access it
Public is the only option: anyone with the address can open the site.
Step 4: Add a title and description
The title takes up to 60 characters and the description up to 160. Search results and link previews show them.
Step 5: Review and publish
Check the summary and click Publish now. The window then confirms the site is live, gives you links to share it, and shows Secured with SSL.
#Address rules
| Rule | Detail |
|---|---|
| Length | 3 to 63 characters |
| Characters | Lowercase letters, digits and hyphens |
| Hyphens | Not at the start or the end, and never two in a row |
| Reserved names | Words such as www, app, api, admin, mail, blog, dashboard, studio, help, support, test and demo are refused |
| Suggestion | Your site's name, cut to 40 characters |
| Live address | https://your-site.uova.io |
#Update a live site
Once the site is live the button reads Update. Clicking it opens a window that names your live address and offers three actions.
- Update
- Sends your current draft live, replacing what visitors see now.
- Change settings
- Opens the publish settings again.
- Take offline
- Unpublishes the site after you confirm. The project stays in your account as a draft.
Your edits save to the draft automatically. Visitors keep seeing the last version you published until you click Update.
#What visitors see
- Your site at
https://your-site.uova.io. Older links in the formwww.uova.com/p/your-siteforward there. - A Made in UOVA badge on sites owned by a Free account. Paid plans hide it on every site; there is no switch per site.
- A small Report link on every published site, so anyone can report abuse.
- Pages that search engines may index. Each site has its own
robots.txtandsitemap.xml. To keep one page out, turn on Hide from search engines in that page's SEO tab.
A brand-new address can take up to about a minute to start answering.
#Use your own domain
Custom domains are on paid plans. When a domain is connected and set as primary, your-site.uova.io forwards to it. See Connect a domain you own or Buy a domain.
#If publishing stops
| What you see | Why | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| A page still mentions the template's sample business | The site was started from a template and its sample name is still in your copy | Replace the name on the page it names, then publish again |
| The address is taken | Another site already uses it | Choose a different address |
| The address cannot change | The site has been published before | Keep it, or take the site offline and publish again |
| The site was changed in another tab or device | A newer copy of the site exists | Reload the editor to get the latest copy, then publish |
| The content was blocked | Something on the site breaks the content rules | Edit or remove that content and try again |
| Too many attempts | More than 10 publish requests in a minute | Wait a minute and try again |
#Common questions
No. Publishing and updating a site do not use credits, and every plan can publish, including Free.
No. UOVA does not send a confirmation email. The publish window shows your live address when it finishes.
Not automatically: publishing does not notify search engines. Your site can be indexed by default, and its sitemap is at /sitemap.xml on your address if you want to submit it yourself.
Only by taking the site offline and publishing it again, which frees the old address. Anyone using the old link will no longer reach the site.
In the editor, click Update, choose Take offline and confirm. Or, in your dashboard, open the site's Site settings, then Danger zone, then Unpublish. The project stays in your account as a draft.
The last version you published. Edits stay in your draft until you click Update.