Publishing turns your draft into a live academic website at yourname.facultydex.org. From the dashboard or the iOS app, open Site → Status and tap Publish site. That's it — the site is live within seconds and globally cached.
What happens when you publish
- Your subdomain becomes resolvable and serves your site over HTTPS.
- Cloudflare's edge network caches the rendered pages in 300+ locations worldwide.
- Search engines can crawl the site (we include it in the sitemap automatically).
- Your subdomain becomes locked — you can't rename it while published, so existing links keep working.
Unpublishing
Tap Unpublish from the same Status section. Your site immediately returns a friendly "not currently available" page; the underlying data stays in your account. You can republish later or unpublish indefinitely. Unpublishing is the right choice if you want to take the site down temporarily without deleting anything.
Editing while published
Most edits — new publications, new news posts, photo updates — are reflected on your live site within a few seconds. Larger changes (theme switch, content-focus switch, custom-domain swap) may take up to a minute as the cache invalidates.
What your site includes
By default the published site has these pages:
- Home — bio, photo, current research highlights
- Research — research statement and areas
- Publications — your full publications list, year-grouped
- Team (lab sites) — current and alumni members
- News — your posted updates and approved press mentions
Pro users can add unlimited custom pages on top of these — see Custom pages.
Publishing on a custom domain
If you have a domain like jane-smith.com or mylab.edu, you can point it at your FacultyDex site instead of using the facultydex.org subdomain. See Custom domains for the DNS setup.