Where to find this: Services → Website → Website Editor
A snapshot is a saved copy of one page, taken at the moment you ask for it. Take one before a big change and you can put the page back the way it was.
Snapshots Are Manual
Nothing takes a snapshot for you. There are no automatic snapshots on save, no timed snapshots, and none taken before a restore. If you want a safety copy of a page, you have to create it yourself first.
The editor saves your work automatically every 10 seconds, so an unwanted change is saved along with everything else. A snapshot taken before you start is the only way back to how the page looked.
Creating a Snapshot
- Open the page you want to save in the Website Editor. Snapshots belong to the page that's currently open.
- Click the ⋮ button at the right-hand end of the editor header.
- Click Create Snapshot.
The snapshot is taken straight away — there's no name box and nothing to confirm. Every snapshot is labelled Manual snapshot, so tell them apart by the date and time shown underneath.
Viewing Your Snapshots
- Click the ⋮ button in the editor header.
- Under the Snapshots heading you'll see the snapshots for the page you have open, newest first, with a count beside the heading.
Each row shows its label and how long ago it was taken — Just now, 20m ago, 3d ago, and a full date once it's more than a week old.
If the list says No snapshots yet, none have been created for this page. Select a page first means no page is open in the editor.
Restoring a Snapshot
To put a page back to a saved version, click the snapshot's row in the ⋮ menu.
Clicking a snapshot row restores it there and then — there is no confirmation step and no undo. Whatever is on the page is replaced by the snapshot's content, and the editor's Undo history is cleared at the same time. If you might want the current version back, create a snapshot of it before you restore.
After restoring, the page in the editor holds the snapshot's content and you can carry on editing from there. Auto-save then stores it as the page's current content.
Deleting a Snapshot
- Click the ⋮ button in the editor header.
- Find the snapshot in the list.
- Click the bin icon on the right of its row.
- Confirm when you're asked.
Deleting a snapshot removes only that saved copy. The page itself and your other snapshots are untouched. Deletion can't be undone.
How Long Snapshots Are Kept
Your plan decides how long a snapshot stays available. Older snapshots are cleared out automatically once they pass that age.
A snapshot is not a long-term backup. If a version of a page matters to you months from now, keep your own copy of the wording and images somewhere outside the editor.
Good Habits
- Take one before the risky bit — a redesign, a colour change across the page, or deleting a large section.
- Work page by page — a snapshot covers only the page that was open when you took it, so take one on each page you're about to change.
- Check the time stamp before restoring — the labels are all the same, so the date and time are how you pick the right one.
- Tidy up — delete snapshots you've finished with so the list stays short and easy to read.
Common Questions
Nothing appears in the list. Snapshots are per page. Make sure the page you took the snapshot on is the one open in the editor, and check whether it's older than your plan's retention period.
I restored the wrong one. If you took a snapshot of the current version first, restore that one to get back. If you didn't, the previous content is gone — restoring is immediate and can't be undone.
Can I compare two snapshots side by side? Not in the editor. You can restore one, look at it, then restore the other — but take a snapshot of anything you want to keep before you start swapping.