Nothing on your website is public until somebody presses Publish. The screen says what changes before the button, and it is three things.
The three things
- Search engines will list it. Your club’s address stops being a private door and starts being a page anybody can find.
- Your tables, draws and results go behind sign-in. Members still see everything. A stranger reading your website sees what is on, not who is playing.
- Your court sheet can be public. Only if your club already shows its day sheet, and only ever times and courts, never a name. There is a switch for it on the same screen.
The second one is the change most clubs have not thought about. See what the outside world can see.
Who presses it
The club owner, the first time. Publishing changes what members-only means, and that setting is the owner’s. If you are not the owner, the screen says so and asks you to get them to open the Website tab.
After that, anybody who can edit the website can publish a change.
It can take a minute
Give it a minute and then look. The address to copy is on the screen once it is live, and the button at the top of the screen becomes See it.
Then tell people. Put the address on your noticeboard, in your next newsletter and on your club’s social media. It is the address your members already use, so there is only one to remember.
Changing it afterwards
Edit it the same way any time. Your changes sit in your draft until you press Publish changes, so nothing half-written is ever on the page. The state at the top of the screen tells you when you have changes waiting.
Putting an earlier version back
Earlier versions keeps the last 10. Putting one back puts it into your draft rather than straight onto the website, so you can look at it before anybody else does.
Taking it down
Take it down puts your club’s address back to the sign-in page. Nothing is deleted. Your words, your photos and your documents are all still there, and publishing again brings the whole thing back.
The same is true if your club moves to a plan without a website. You keep everything, and it comes back the day you come back.