> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.hiveku.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Publish Your Changes > Use the Deploy menu to put your changes on your live site, follow the progress, and check the result Everything you changed in the builder is saved, but visitors only see it after you publish. Publishing takes a few minutes, and your current live site stays up the whole time. In this example we publish all the Northwind changes from this series: the new headline, the readable menu, the new sentence, and the FAQ page. ## Publish to your live site **1. Click Deploy** Click **Deploy** at the top right of the builder. A small dot on the button means at least one environment, such as Development, does not have your latest changes yet. ![The Deploy button outlined at the top right of the builder](https://mintcdn.com/locusdigital/HHtyEzypiRRWLDpM/images/how-tos/site-builder/pub-01-deploy-button-closeup.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=HHtyEzypiRRWLDpM\&q=85\&s=eb898c8bff6568aa1807acdf47b0f3ae) ![The builder with the Deploy button outlined at the top right](https://mintcdn.com/locusdigital/HHtyEzypiRRWLDpM/images/how-tos/site-builder/pub-01-deploy-button.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=HHtyEzypiRRWLDpM\&q=85\&s=a917f22dc403b1f1c984aec5d4abb095) Clicking **Deploy** only opens a menu. Nothing is published yet. **2. Find Production in the menu** The menu lists your site's environments: * **Production** is your live site, the one visitors see. * **Development** is a separate copy of your site, for checking changes before they go live. * **Staging** also appears if you have turned it on for this site. Each row shows how many files have changed since that environment was last updated (here, **13 files changed**) and its web address. > [!NOTE] > > Publishing to Production needs a paid plan. On the free plan the row says **Paid feature. Upgrade to deploy production.** ![The Deploy menu with Development and Production rows, each showing files changed and a Deploy button; Production's Deploy is outlined](https://mintcdn.com/locusdigital/HHtyEzypiRRWLDpM/images/how-tos/site-builder/pub-02-menu-closeup.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=HHtyEzypiRRWLDpM\&q=85\&s=263e0137c2359b5ed032a6ca7f63a027) **3. Click Deploy on the Production row** Click **Deploy** in the **Production** row. Publishing starts right away. There is no extra confirmation. ![The builder with the Deploy menu open at the top right over the Northwind preview](https://mintcdn.com/locusdigital/HHtyEzypiRRWLDpM/images/how-tos/site-builder/pub-02-menu.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=HHtyEzypiRRWLDpM\&q=85\&s=c6f0f17dba978440d2db466ec2042519) > [!WARNING] > > **Deploy All** publishes to every environment at once. Use the **Production** row when you only want to update your live site. **4. Follow the progress** The row shows a progress bar with each stage, such as **Queued...**, **Building...** and **Deploying...**. You can close the menu and keep working. The Northwind publish took about four minutes. ![The Production row with a green progress bar and the word Building](https://mintcdn.com/locusdigital/HHtyEzypiRRWLDpM/images/how-tos/site-builder/pub-03-building-closeup.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=HHtyEzypiRRWLDpM\&q=85\&s=b8644e48489d77139882b09ce2c474b5) **5. Check that it is live** When it finishes, the row says **Live!** for a moment, then **Up to date**, with the address of your live site. ![The Production row with a green dot and Up to date](https://mintcdn.com/locusdigital/HHtyEzypiRRWLDpM/images/how-tos/site-builder/pub-05-up-to-date-closeup.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=HHtyEzypiRRWLDpM\&q=85\&s=9f1a89964739a7c0f3ee018ff227ed6b) **6. Open your live site** Click the open-site icon (the square with an arrow) in the **Production** row to open your live site in a new tab. Every change from this series is now there: ![The live Northwind Coffee Roasters home page with the new headline, the readable menu and the new sentence](https://mintcdn.com/locusdigital/HHtyEzypiRRWLDpM/images/how-tos/site-builder/live-01-home.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=HHtyEzypiRRWLDpM\&q=85\&s=68fa3fe4f3cebe0f9e372380ca573d2f) > [!TIP] > > Each publish also saves a restore point of your site as you published it, so you can come back to that moment from **Project history**. See [Undo a Change](/how-tos/site-builder/undo-a-change). ## If something goes wrong If a publish cannot finish, the row says **Build failed**, with a link to the logs, and offers **Retry** and usually **Ask AI to fix**, which hands the problem to the AI chat. If Hiveku refuses a publish before building, the row says why and offers the button that fixes it. Most failed publishes stop before anything reaches your live site, so visitors keep seeing the version they had. See [Deployments](/publishing/deployments) for more. ## More about publishing * Use your own address, like `www.example.com`: [Set Up a Custom Domain](/how-tos/custom-domain). * Environments, the history of every publish, and other ways to publish: [Deploy Your Site](/how-tos/deploy-site). ## What's next You have opened your site, changed it with the AI and by hand, added a page, checked it on a phone and a tablet, undone a change, and published. Some good next steps: > **[Edit your content in the CMS](/how-tos/site-builder/edit-cms-content)** > > Change FAQ answers, posts and other content without code. > **[Write and publish a blog post](/how-tos/site-builder/write-a-blog-post)** > > Write, check and publish a post in one place. > **[Try a change on a branch first](/how-tos/site-builder/try-on-a-branch)** > > Test a bigger change without touching your live site. > **[See who filled in your forms](/how-tos/site-builder/form-submissions)** > > Read form submissions and choose who gets emailed. This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.