How Publishing Works in Marketplace
You can safely make edits in Sanity. Nothing changes on your live website until you publish.
The draft and publish model
Sanity uses a draft and publish model. Every document has two states:
- Draft: your working copy, visible to editors in Sanity Studio
- Published: the live version shown to website visitors
When you edit a Page, Route, Location, Navigation, or configuration document, you are editing a draft.
What happens when you publish
When you click Publish:
- Sanity saves the document as the published version
- Marketplace refreshes the affected cached content
- Visitors see the updated content on the live site
In most cases, updates appear within seconds of publishing.
Scheduled publishing
Scheduled publishing lets you publish at a future date and time.
This is useful for campaigns, promotions, and time-based updates.
If Scheduled Publishing is available in your Studio:
- Choose a publish date and time
- Confirm the timezone shown in Studio
- Let the scheduled publish run automatically
What triggers a refresh
Marketplace refreshes the parts of the site affected by what you published.
Common examples:
- Publish a Page: only the URLs that use that Page update
- Publish a Location: location pages and Sections that display that Location can update
- Publish Navigation: pages using that navigation update
- Publish site-wide configuration: a broader set of pages may update
This helps most publishes stay fast and targeted.