Publishing

When you are happy with your site, publishing is one click.

Preview vs. live

While you are editing, your site lives in a preview workspace inside VoxelSite Studio. The live version at your domain is only updated when you explicitly publish. This means you can experiment freely without affecting your live site.

What happens on publish

When you click Publish:

1. VoxelSite creates a snapshot of the current state (so you can roll back)
2. Preview files are copied to the public document root
3. Schema.org structured data is generated for search engines
4. An XML sitemap (sitemap.xml) is created
5. A robots.txt file is configured to welcome both search engines and AI crawlers
6. An llms.txt file is generated for AI discovery
7. An MCP server endpoint (mcp.php) is generated

Your site is live immediately — no build step, no deployment, no waiting.

Snapshots

Every publish creates an automatic snapshot. You can also create manual snapshots at any time from the Snapshots tab.

Snapshots are complete copies of your site state. If something goes wrong, you can roll back to any previous snapshot.

Custom domains

VoxelSite serves your website from whatever domain points to your server. There is no subdomain limitation. Your site runs on your domain, on your server.

Re-publishing

Every time you publish, VoxelSite generates fresh copies of all derived files (sitemap, robots.txt, llms.txt, structured data). Your pages, partials, and assets are copied from preview to production. Previous versions are kept as snapshots.

Download your site

After publishing, you can also download the entire site as a ZIP file — either as PHP source or static HTML — from the Download button in the status bar. See Download & Export.

Related

• Download & Export — download your published site as PHP or HTML
• Undo & Snapshots — roll back to any previous state
• SEO & AI Discovery — the files generated on publish