Version History

Every time you go live, Helm saves a snapshot of your content. History lets you look back through those snapshots and bring one back.

What a version is

A version is everything you had live at that moment, not one page or one section. If you published on Monday and again on Friday, the Monday entry holds your whole site as it stood on Monday — the homepage, the menu, the opening hours, all of it together.

That matters when you restore: you get the whole snapshot back, not the one part you were thinking of. If only your opening hours were wrong, editing them directly is usually less disruptive than rolling everything back a week.

Viewing history

Open History. Each entry shows its version number and when it was published, and the one your site is serving right now is marked Current.

Restoring a version

Choose Restore on the version you want and confirm.

The restored content becomes your draft. It replaces the draft you already have, so if you were part-way through some edits that you had not published, those are the ones that go. The dashboard tells you this before it does it — but it is worth publishing or writing down anything half-finished before you go looking through history.

Nothing changes on your live site at this point. You can read through the restored content, change your mind, keep editing, and it only goes out when you press Go Live. That order is deliberate: restoring an old version is rarely something you want happening to your live site the instant you click.

Version numbers keep counting forward. Restoring version 3 does not take you back to version 3 — it gives you a new version containing version 3's content, so the history stays a record of what happened rather than being rewritten.

How far back it goes

Helm keeps your last 10 published versions.

Older ones are not archived somewhere else; they are removed as you publish. So a version you might want to look at again is ten publishes away from being gone for good. If something you published is worth keeping — a seasonal menu, wording you spent a long time on — copy the text somewhere of your own rather than relying on history to still have it next year.