Publish

Whenever you make changes that affect Store Pages, ShopSite will need to regenerate the affected pages before the changes will be visible to customers. ShopSite will notify you when you make changes that require the pages to be regenerated, but the updates will not actually be made until you tell ShopSite to publish them. This allows you to make multiple changes in the back office, then update the site all at once.

ShopSite will notify you when you have made changes that require you to regenerate pages by displaying the Publish tab in the ShopSite navigation bar:

When you are ready, simply click the Publish tab to tell ShopSite to regenerate the affected pages.

If you have made changes that have not been published when you click on the My Store icon in the ShopSite navigation bar, ShopSite will notify you and prompt you to publish the changes. You can select to continue without publishing the changes, if you want to.

Both the Publish tab and the button on the My Store notification screen will only regenerate the content ShopSite knows has been changed. This avoids creating an unnecessary load on your server by publishing pages that have not changed.

You can also go to Utilities > Publish to regenerate site content. The Publish screen allows you to configure store generation settings, as well as regenerating all the store content. The following options can be controlled on this screen:

Index for Search During Update

Check this box to have ShopSite update the search index when site content is published. You should leave this box checked unless you have turned off Customer Site Search.

Publish files (css, js, ...) during update

Check this box to generate the Style Sheets and JavaScript files used by the selected ShopSite theme. These generated files are placed in the "data/html/publish" directory off of the default ShopSite installation location.

Generate HTML Pages During Update

Check this box to have ShopSite create HTML pages, such as Store Pages and product More Information pages, when you publish. If you are using Order Anywhere links on your own pages, and do not use any ShopSite-generated pages, you may un-check this box to have ShopSite only update the search index when you publish. Most merchants will want to be sure this box is checked.

Use subproduct's template for More Info Pages	Check this box to have ShopSite generate More Info Pages for subproducts using the product template assigned to the subproduct. If this box is not checked, the parent product template will be used to generate the More Info Page for any assigned subproducts.
Do not display the 'Adding Product' messages	Check this box to turn off listing of each product added to a page. This can create a small speed improvement when publishing stores with very large numbers of products, but may hide helpful product or template debugging information.
Maximum Number of Pages for Pagination	Enter the maximum number of pages that will be made when ShopSite sub-divides a Store Page based on the number of products displayed on an individual Store Page setting (see Pagination on the Edit Page Layout screen). If ShopSite reaches the maximum number of pages indicated here, it will include all the remaining assigned products on the final page, regardless of the products-per-page limit.
For each Pagination page the number of page links shown	Select how many sub-divided page links will be displayed on sub-divided pages. If a Store Page is sub-divided over several HTML pages, customers will see numbered links to navigate between the sub-divided pages. ShopSite can display all the sub-divided page links, or you can specify a maximum number of links to display on each sub-divided page.

Generate Google Type SiteMap during update

Check this box to have ShopSite generate an updated Google Sitemap when you publish your store. If ShopSite has previously generated a sitemap and you uncheck this option, the ShopSite generated sitemap will be removed when you click Save or Regenerate.

Generate Custom Pages (legacy option, typically not used)

If you are using ShopSite's legacy Custom Pages feature to create some store content, you should check this box. Most merchants can leave this box un-checked.

Click Regenerate to save changes to this screen and publish your entire site using the new settings. Click Save to save your changes, or click Cancel to abandon your changes, without regenerating your site.