Whether you want to publish your store now, schedule it for later, preview it before publishing or rollback to a previous version, you can do it all using the Site Manager.
📘 Definitions of Publish Status:
Succeeded: The build succeeded and is either published live now or was published live previously on your production URL.
Skipped: The build was successful, but it was never published. Another build was completed and overwrote this build.
Failed: The build has failed and you can view the logs.
Creating a build
Everything starts by creating a build. Once you have made the required changes in Shogun Frontend, you can create a build of your store. To create a new build:
From the Global Top Navigation bar, click on SITE MANAGER.
Click on GENERATE VERSION.
A modal will appear and you can optionally enter a name and some notes to your build. Click on CREATE.
Once complete, you will receive a toast notification that your build is complete, and a new version will appear on the Site Manager list.
From there, you can preview it, publish it or set a date to be published, and rollback to a previous version.
Publishing
Find the build on the build list.
Click on the arrow dropdown on the Publish button and select Publish now.
A modal will appear. Click on PUBLISH to confirm. You'll receive a toast notification once the build is successfully published.
📘 Pro tip
Alternatively, you can create build and publish with a single click. Click on the arrow dropdown on the GENERATE VERSION button and select Generate and publish now.
Storefront Preview
⚠️ Note
You'll need to have at least one page in the "Ready to Publish" state in order to build and publish your store. Not doing so may cause an error: "Your store could not be built".
📘 The preview URL will not be indexed by any search engines.
The Storefront Preview feature allows you to preview your Progressive Web Application (PWA) storefront before publishing changes to production.
Once a build process is complete, you can preview it by:
Find the build on the build's list.
Click on the Preview link to preview and test your full storefront PWA on the preview domain before choosing to publish the store to your live production URL.
The preview URL can be shared with your team to view changes to your store on all devices before your changes are published to the live site.
Multiple Preview
You can preview more than one build. For example, you might want to preview an old build to compare with a new one in development. To preview other builds, repeat the steps above.
Scheduled Publish
Scheduled publishing enables you to publish the latest changes to your store at a specified date and time. Now you can make your changes for an upcoming product launch, for example, create and preview your build, and then schedule the launch to go live without needing to be online at the specified time to click the publish button.
To schedule a date for you build to be published, follow these steps:
Find the build on the build's list.
Click on the arrow dropdown on the Publish button and select Publish later.
A modal will appear and you can optionally enter a name and some notes to your build. Select a date and time for your build to be published. Click on PUBLISH LATER.
You can repeat this process to schedule multiple publishes.
Your scheduled publish will then appear on the build's list.
📘 Important
The timezone displayed will be in your local time.
Scheduled Publish builds must be more than 1 minute apart from each other
Edit a scheduled publish
If you changed your mind, you can edit a sceduled publish.
Steps:
Find the build on the build's list.
Click on the arrow dropdown on the Edit button and select Edit publish schedule.
A modal will appear, and you can edit the date and time, as well the name and notes previously added.
After you have made the changes, click on PUBLISH LATER.
Cancel a scheduled publish
To cancel a seceduled publish, perform the following steps:
Find the build on the build's list.
Click on the arrow dropdown on the Edit button and select Unschedule publish.
A modal will appear. Click on UNSCHEDULE.
Storefront Rollback
🚧 Make sure the version you are reverting to is in sync with your ecommerce platform (Shopify or BigCommerce).
The Storefront Rollback feature allows you to revert your store to a previously published build.
To rollback to a previous version, follow these steps:
Find the build on the build list.
Click on the arrow dropdown on the Publish button and select Publish now.
A modal will appear. Click on PUBLISH to confirm the rollback.