Copy an earlier version into your draft, or make it live again in one step.
Where to find itShopOnline StoreCustomizeVersion history
Before you start
Restore needs the Customize permission. Publishing a version again needs the Publish permission. Turn on Online store in Shop › Features. If you do not see it there, ask support.
Needs
Turn it on in Shop › Features (ask support if you do not see it)
Who can use this
Shop owner, Shop Marketing Manager
Every publish is a numbered version. The clock button in the editor's top bar, Version history, lists the newest 50.
"Restore copies a version into the draft (you can undo it). Publish this version makes it live again and keeps your draft."
What a row shows
Part
Meaning
"Version N"
The version number
Live
The version customers see now
Scheduled / Scheduled publish failed
The copy waiting for a scheduled publish, or one that did not go live
Source
Published, Theme update or Import
Date and note
When it was published, and the note typed in the publish dialog
Restore: bring a version into the draft
Use this to keep working from an earlier design.
Select Restore on the version.
Read "Your saved draft will be replaced by this version. Undo (⌘Z / Ctrl+Z) brings it back."
Select Replace draft.
The panel closes and the draft now holds that version. Unsaved edits are saved first. Customers see no change until you publish.
If the theme has changed since that version, a notice starting "Version N restored." tells you what was adjusted:
"The theme's required section was put back (…)." A page's main section was missing.
"N settings no longer match the theme — fix them before saving or publishing."
Publish a version again: roll back at once
Use this when the live site has a problem and an earlier version was fine.
Select Publish on the version. Its tooltip reads "Make this version live again; your draft is kept".
Read "Version N goes live right away. Your draft stays as it is."
Select Make live.
The editor confirms "Version N is live again as version M." The old version is published again as a new version, so the history stays complete.
Your draft may still hold the design you rolled back from. The editor then asks: "Your draft still holds the version you rolled back from — publishing it would bring that back. Use version N as your draft instead?"
Button
Result
Use version N as the draft
The draft becomes the version you made live
Keep my draft
The draft is left as it is
Publish is not offered on the live version, on a scheduled copy, or without the Publish permission.
Messages
Message
Meaning
"Version N no longer matches the theme (… settings), so it was not published. Restore it into the draft to fix it first."
The rollback was refused. Restore, fix the settings, then publish
"A publish is scheduled for …. Making this version live cancels that scheduled publish."
Confirm only if you want that
"The draft was changed elsewhere since you opened it (another tab or a colleague). Nothing was restored."
Choose Load their draft or Keep mine, then pick the version again
