Saving, Discarding, and Publishing
The difference between Save Draft, Publish, and Discard in BeaverBuilder.
BeaverBuilder gives you three options when you’re done editing. Knowing the difference between them — and when to use each — will save you from publishing too early or losing your work.
The Done Button
When you’re ready to finish your editing session, click the Done button in the top right corner of BeaverBuilder. A dropdown appears with three choices:
Publish
What it does: Saves all your changes and makes them live on the website immediately.
When to use it: When your edits are complete, reviewed, and ready for visitors to see. Always Preview first.
Important: If the page was already published (live), clicking Publish here updates the live version right away.
Save Draft
What it does: Saves your work without making anything live. The existing published version (if there is one) stays exactly as it was.
When to use it: When you need to stop mid-edit and come back later, or when you want someone else to review your work before it goes live.
Discard
What it does: Throws away all unsaved changes from the current editing session and returns the page to its last saved state.
When to use it: When you’ve made a mistake and want to start over, or when you opened a page by accident and didn’t change anything intentional.
⚠️ Warning: Discard cannot be undone. Once you confirm it, everything from your current session is gone. Only use it when you’re sure you want to throw away your changes.
Module Save vs. Page Save — What’s the Difference?
When you’re inside a module’s settings panel, there’s a Save button at the bottom. This saves the module temporarily within your editing session — it does not save or publish the page.
To save the whole page, you always need to click Done and choose Publish or Save Draft.
Recommended Workflow
- Make your edits.
- Click Done > Save Draft.
- Click the Preview button to review.
- If everything looks good, go back into BeaverBuilder and click Done > Publish.
