Version history
Every save your portal receives is kept, so nothing you have published is ever really lost. The version history lets you look back through those saves, see what changed in any period, open an earlier version read-only, and — if you need to — restore it.
Opening the history
Section titled “Opening the history”At the bottom of the left sidebar is a Last updated block showing when the site last changed. Click it to open the history panel.
The panel groups your edits by time rather than listing every save in a row, so finding something from months ago does not mean scrolling through hundreds of near-identical entries. The groups are:
| Group | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Today | Today’s individual edits |
| Earlier this week | The previous six days, one row per day |
| Previous weeks | The three weeks before that |
| Earlier months | Months back to January of this year |
| Previous years | One row per year |
Periods with no edits are left out entirely — a quiet week simply does not appear. If a group has nothing in it at all, it shows No edits.
Each row also carries a small bar showing how much editing happened in that period, so a busy week is visually obvious next to a quiet one.
Drilling down to the moment you want
Section titled “Drilling down to the moment you want”Each row has three separate things you can do, and it is worth knowing which is which:
- Click the row itself to see what changed in that period. This opens the change summary, described below, and is usually what you want.
- Click the caret on the row to zoom in — a year opens into months, a month into days, a day into the individual edits made that day.
- Click the icon at the right edge to browse the site as it was at the end of that period.
Zooming replaces the list rather than expanding it inline, so you can go several levels deep without the rows getting narrower. A trail appears across the top showing where you are, for example History › 2025 › November › Nov 14. Any step in that trail takes you back to that level, and Back moves up one level.
Seeing what changed
Section titled “Seeing what changed”Clicking a row opens a summary of that period’s changes, titled with the period you clicked — a day reads something like Friday · Jul 24, and a single edit reads Edit at 4:47 PM.
The summary groups the affected sections into Edited, Added and Removed, each with a count, and notes any structural changes such as sections being reordered. It is generated by comparing the two versions, so it reflects what actually changed rather than a note someone remembered to write.
From the summary you can:
- Browse this version — open the site read-only as it was, to check something before deciding
- Restore — bring that version’s content back as your current draft
Browsing an earlier version
Section titled “Browsing an earlier version”Browsing opens your site as it existed at that point, in a read-only mode. You can move through pages normally to confirm you have the right version. Nothing you look at in this mode changes your live site, and you can leave it at any time to return to the current draft.
Restoring a version
Section titled “Restoring a version”Restoring takes the content from an earlier version and makes it your current working copy. Because this replaces what is in the editor, you are asked to confirm first — the dialog changes to Restore this version? before anything happens.
A few things worth understanding before you restore:
- Restoring does not immediately change your live site. It brings the old content into your draft. It becomes public the same way any other edit does — when you publish. See Saving your changes for how that works.
- Restoring replaces your current content, so if you have unsaved edits you care about, save or note them first.
- Sections that were deleted after that version come back as part of the restore.
If you restore something and change your mind, the version you restored from is still in the history — restoring is itself just another change, so you can go back again.
If the history looks wrong
Section titled “If the history looks wrong”- “No history found” means the panel could not find any past saves for this site. On a brand-new site with only one save, that is expected.
- Everything appears on the same day. If your site’s content was imported or rebuilt in bulk, every save can carry the same timestamp, which makes months of work read as a single afternoon. That reflects how the content was created, not a fault in the history.
- Very old sites keep a large but not unlimited history in the panel. On sites with an extremely long history the oldest row is labelled with a
+to show there is more behind it than is listed.