The website sidebar panel #

The website sidebar (the extension expwt) has a Static publishing panel: on any page of the site you see how that page stands in static publishing, and you can publish just that page without going to Setup > Static publishing.

What you'll have at the end #

A page you just changed published to its static copy, from the page itself.

Who sees the panel: users who may use the sidebar (expwt/use) and have staticpublish/read for at least one target. Without that policy, or on a kernel without static publishing, there is no tab.

What the panel shows #

For every target you may read (the Target limitation of staticpublish/read decides which):

• Last publish: when, and whether it was pushed, not pushed, failed or changed nothing; never before the first publish.
• Stale pages: Yes when content of this page was published after the page was built for the target, so the static copy shows an older version; No when it is current; Not in the build. when the last publish has no page of it (a page that is excluded, or one the crawl did not reach).
• Public address: the address of this page on the target, from its public address or own domain.
• A job of the target that is going on, with who started it and a link to its page.

With static publishing switched off, the panel says so. With no target yet it says "No target yet."; users who may set targets up (staticpublish/setup) get Make a target and Read the tutorial.

Publish this page #

Publish is there for the targets where you have staticpublish/publish:

1. Press Publish under the target.
2. "Verify it's you" asks for your password (or passkey) in a small window, as Publish in Setup > Static publishing does, unless you confirmed it a moment ago.
3. The job starts in the background, as you: an incremental build of this page's node into the last build (the rest of the site stays as it was published), then one commit, one tag and one push, never forced. The panel says "It runs in the background as ..." and links the job's page in the administration (The page of a job).
4. When it has ended, the panel shows the new publish and Stale pages: No.

While a job of the target is going on, there is no Publish; wait for it to end. Every publish of this kind is in the history like any other, so you can go back to an earlier one (History and rollback).

On the console the same is ./console exp:static:publish <target> --nodes=<node id>.

Next step #

Who may publish: give editors staticpublish/read and publish for one target so they can use the panel.