Publish History & Restoring an Earlier Version

Every time you Publish, a full snapshot of that page (blocks + settings) is saved. So you can return to any earlier version with one click and undo a…

Where to find it: Theme Editor → the history/clock icon (⟲) at the top right → Publish History in the right panel Who it's for: Anyone who published a wrong change, changed their mind about a ready-made theme they tried, or wants to bring back an earlier state of a page In short: Every time you Publish, a full snapshot of that page (blocks + settings) is saved. So you can return to any earlier version with one click and undo a bad change or a ready-made theme you didn't like.

What is it for?

Previously, if you were unhappy with a change you had published, there was no way back — you had to rebuild the page by hand. Publish History solves this: every time you publish, the system silently records the page's state at that moment (all its blocks, layout and settings). You can then see these records as a list, pick one and restore that version.

To open the history panel, click the history (⟲) icon on the right side of the top toolbar. The panel shows the publish history of the currently selected page.

What you see in the list

Each version card shows:

Version number (e.g. v12) — which publish it was.
Live badge — marks the version currently live on your site.
Date and time — when it was published.
Published by — who published this version (email).
Change summary — compared to the previous version, how many blocks were added (+), removed (−) and changed (~).
Block count — total number of blocks in that version.
Theme-wide badge — appears if that publish changed more than one page (and/or theme settings) together.
Note (if any) — a short description attached to the publish.

If a version was created by restoring another version, its card shows a ⟲ v# badge telling you which version it came from.

How to restore a version

In the history panel, click Restore this version on the version you want.
Read and confirm the dialog that appears.
The selected version's content is loaded into a draft — it opens in the editor, but your live site does not change yet.
Review the page. If you like it, click Publish to take it live.
If you change your mind, use Discard draft from the ⋮ menu to return to the state before the restore.

This "load to draft first, then publish" flow is a deliberate safety choice: a wrong click never changes your site instantly; you always see it first, then confirm.

Restoring overwrites any unsaved changes you have on that page. If you have important work in progress, Save it to a draft first.

Restoring the whole theme (undoing a ready-made theme)

When you apply a ready-made theme, all your pages and your color/font settings change together. To undo this you don't have to restore each page one by one.

The version card of such a publish carries a Theme-wide badge. When you click Restore this version, the dialog offers two options:

This page only — returns just the page you're on to that moment.
Restore whole theme — returns all pages and theme settings included in that publish, together, to that moment.

In both cases the content is loaded into a draft first; your live site does not change until you click Publish.

The restore is recorded too

When you restore a version and publish it, that action is written to history as a new version (its card notes which version it came from). So you can also change your mind about a restore and return to the previous version again. No step is one-way.

How many versions are kept?

The last 30 publishes are kept per page. When you make a new publish, the oldest record is automatically removed. This keeps the history from growing forever; in practice the last 30 publishes cover every case you'd want to return to.

Tips

History is specific to the currently selected page. To see another page's history, switch to that page first.
The restore button is disabled for the Live version — it's already published.
A newly created page that has never been published shows an empty history; it starts filling after the first Publish.
Publish history also covers most of the need for "exporting a theme backup": to return to an earlier state, you no longer need export/import.