Drafts, Live Preview, Version History & Scheduling
StoutStack gives you a safe, forgiving way to work on your content. You can edit freely without worrying that half-finished changes will show up on your live site, preview exactly how something will look before anyone else sees it, schedule updates to go live on their own, and undo mistakes by rolling back to an earlier version. This workflow is the same everywhere it matters. Your pages, your blog posts, and your custom content items all work this way.
Drafts and autosave
Every time you edit, StoutStack saves your work automatically about once a minute as a private draft. You don't have to remember to hit Save. If you get interrupted, close the tab, or your laptop battery dies, your latest changes are already safely kept.
Here's the important part: a draft is private. While you're editing, visitors to your live site keep seeing the last version you published. Nothing you type goes public until you choose to publish it. That means you can rewrite an entire page in the middle of a busy workday, leave it half-finished, and your live site stays exactly as it was.
Live Preview
When you want to see how your draft actually looks (not the editing form, but the real, finished page), use Live Preview. It shows your unpublished draft privately, styled with your brand, exactly as a visitor would see it. As you make edits, the preview keeps up so you can check your work in real time.
Live Preview also lets you switch between Mobile, Tablet, and Desktop views, so you can confirm your page looks great on a phone as well as on a big screen. It's the best way to catch a headline that's a touch too long, or an image that needs a different crop, before you go live.
Publishing
When your draft is ready, click Publish. Your changes go live and appear on your public site within moments. From that point on, visitors see the new version, and it stays the version they see until you publish again.
If you keep editing after publishing, you're simply back to working on a private draft. The published page stays exactly where it is until you publish your new changes.
Scheduled publishing
Sometimes you want something to go live at a specific time: a holiday announcement, a sale that starts Monday morning, or a blog post timed for the weekend. Instead of setting a reminder to hit Publish yourself, you can schedule it in advance.
- Finish your draft as usual.
- Open the publish menu (the small arrow next to the Publish button).
- Choose to schedule, then pick the date and time you want it to go live.
- Confirm. Your content stays a private draft until that moment, then publishes on its own.
Good to know: Scheduled content goes live on a regular automatic check, so it may publish within a few minutes of the time you picked rather than to the exact second. For almost everything that's perfectly fine. But if you're coordinating with something that has to be second-perfect, such as an email blast going out at the same instant, give yourself a small buffer.
Version history
Every time your content is saved or published, StoutStack keeps a copy in your version history. That means you can look back at what a page or post used to say, and if a change didn't work out, you can bring back an earlier version instead of rebuilding it from memory.
To use it, open the Versions tab on the page, post, or item you're editing. From there you can:
- View any past version to see exactly what it contained.
- Compare two versions to see what changed between them.
- Restore an earlier version to bring its content back as your current draft, which you can then review and publish.
Good to know: StoutStack keeps the 25 most recent versions of each item. As you make new changes, versions older than that are cleared out automatically. So version history is an excellent safety net for recent edits, rather than a permanent archive of everything you've ever written. If a particular piece of writing matters to you long-term, it's worth keeping your own copy of that text as well.