Saving and Drafts
Helm saves your work automatically so you never lose changes. Every edit creates a draft that only your team can see — your live website stays unchanged until you decide to publish.
Auto-save
Changes save every 30 seconds while you are typing, and again whenever you click away from a field. Press Save to save at once rather than waiting for the timer.
The editor header tells you where you stand:
- Up to date — everything is stored
- Saving — a save is in flight
- Unsaved changes — you have typed since the last save, and the timer is running
You do not need to wait for Up to date before closing a field or moving to another section; the save follows you.
Drafts and your live site
Your draft is private to your team. Visitors keep seeing the last published version until you click Go Live, so there is no half-finished state anyone else can stumble into.
That is what makes it safe to work in pieces. Change three sections over three days, look at them together, then publish once.
When two people edit at the same time
If someone else saves a change to the same content while you have it open, Helm will not quietly overwrite either version. Your editor tells you the content moved underneath you and stops auto-saving so your work is not lost — you can then reload to pick up their version and reapply your change.
This is worth knowing if more than one person on your team edits: the last person to press Save does not simply win.
What is not a draft
Some things apply the moment you change them, because they are settings rather than content:
- turning modules on or off
- team members and their permissions
- your domain and billing
Only the content you edit in the editor goes through the draft-then-publish cycle.
If something goes wrong
Your last ten published versions are kept, so a mistake that reached your live site is undone by restoring an earlier one rather than retyping anything. See Version history for how to do that.