Publish

The Publish function processes the changes you've made in ShopSite and regenerates your ShopSite store to reflect those changes. While you are changing the data in your store's databases, your store's outward appearance remains the same until you publish it. This speeds up the process of working in ShopSite.

The Publish tab on the right side of the ShopSite will pop up when you have made changes but have not yet published your store. Click the Publish tab to publish your store. This method only processes changes to your store.

If you click on the button and have not published the store since making changes, you will be given the opportunity to do so before you go to your store.

Click on the Regenerate button on the Publish screen in the Utilities section of ShopSite. When you use this method, you have more control over exactly what publishing functions ShopSite performs. In addition to regenerating the entire store, you can tell ShopSite to regenerate only the areas you specify:

Index for Search During Update	Generate a new product search index.
Generate Custom Pages During Update	Read and process all custom page files.
Generate HTML Pages During Update	Create all the pages in your ShopSite store using the information in the pages and products databases.
Maximum Number of Pages for Pagination	This value sets the maximum number of multi-pages that ShopSite will create for any one page in your database, based on the number of products per generated page defined for that page. This prevents ShopSite from generating too many pages (usually caused by a configuration error). If this limit is reached, any products not yet added to a multi-page will be added to the final page.
Number of Pagination Links per Page	This value sets the maximum number of pagination links that will be displayed on a multi-page. If you have more than the set number of multi-pages, only the indicated number of links will be displayed.

For very large sites, there may be special cases where you want to regenerate only certain sections. For example, if you just uploaded thousands of price changes, only the HTML needs to be updated to show the new prices. You don’t need to reindex for search because no products were added, removed, or moved from the pages they were assigned to.