Orbit MD

Publishing · Branches & publishing

Publishing a page

On the page (the Publish group on the Page tab, or the banner above the form):

  • Approvers click Publish, confirm, and it’s live.
  • Editors click Ask to publish and can add a note (“Please publish before Friday’s newsletter”). The page turns blue — Waiting for approval — for everyone. An approver sees the request, checks What changed (the edits compared with the live site, as track changes), and clicks Publish — or Send back with a reason, which the editor sees on the page. Editors can withdraw their own request while it’s waiting.
A page in Orbit MD with a blue Waiting for approval banner: You asked to publish We're open on Sundays now, the note Please publish before Friday's newsletter, and Publish and Send back buttons, plus See what changed
A request waiting for approval, as an approver sees it.
Orbit MD's What changed window comparing a page with the live site: 9am–3pm struck out and 9am–4pm added, and the words a new Sunday pastry added
See what changed — the edits compared with the live site, as track changes.

Who’s an approver is decided on GitHub: protect the live branch and put your approvers on its bypass list. See Setting up your GitHub repository.

Unpublished

The Unpublished tab (with a count) lists everything saved that isn’t live: first the requests waiting for approval, then the other changed pages — including pages that were moved, added or deleted. Tick several and publish (or ask to publish) them together, so a new page and the navigation change that links to it go live at the same moment. Click a page’s title to open it.

Orbit MD's Unpublished tab: one request Waiting for approval with its note and Publish and Send back buttons, then two Changed pages — a new post and a changed post — each with a tick box and a Publish button
The Unpublished tab — requests first, then everything else that isn’t live.