Branches & publishing
Every page in Orbit has a status that answers the only questions an editor has: is it live, and how do I get it live? The status shows as a dot next to the page in the sidebar and as a banner on the page itself, and the Publish button is right there on the page. Developers get the same flow on top of ordinary git branches and commits — nobody has to think in branches.
The statuses
Section titled “The statuses”| Status | What it means | What you can do |
|---|---|---|
| New (hollow purple dot) | A page that has never been published | Save it, then Publish / Ask to publish |
| Live (green) | What visitors see is exactly this page | Edit it — saving makes it Changed |
| Changed (amber) | Live, with saved changes that aren’t live yet | See what changed, Publish / Ask to publish |
| Waiting for approval (blue) | Someone has asked for it to be published | Approvers: Publish or Send back. The asker: withdraw |
Saving puts a change on the preview site. There’s no separate “send” step: a few seconds after you save, Orbit sends your changes to the preview site in the background. Publishing puts it on the live site.