Publishing a portfolio

Draft, preview, and live are different

Publishing requirements

• Verify the account email and accept the current Terms when Studio requests it.
• Reserve a public username. This becomes username.iso100.photos.
• Choose a portfolio cover, or have a processed public photo that ISO100 can use as the cover.
• Create at least one Public gallery containing at least one Public photo whose status is Ready.
• Stay within the current plan's gallery, photo, published-photo, and storage limits.
• Resolve rejected or restricted public photos before publishing.

Preview before publishing

1. 01Open PortfolioIn Studio, open Portfolio. The Publishing panel shows whether the portfolio is live and whether saved changes are waiting.
2. 02Review the change listWhen Review changes is available, open it to inspect added, updated, and removed portfolio, gallery, and photo items before publishing.
3. 03Generate a previewSelect Preview portfolio or Preview changes. ISO100 builds the draft and opens a temporary preview without changing the live site.
4. 04Check the real viewing experienceOpen the portfolio root, each changed gallery, and several photo views. Check phone and desktop widths, cover crops, text contrast, gallery order, captions, links, and password gates.

Publish the current draft

1. 01Return to the Publishing panelAfter the preview is correct, select Publish or Publish changes.
2. 02Wait for completionPublishing creates static public pages and can take a moment. Do not assume a tab close or timeout means the previous live site was damaged; a failed publish leaves the last successful version live.
3. 03Open the public addressUse View portfolio after publishing. The main address is username.iso100.photos unless an active custom domain is connected.

What becomes public

• Draft galleries and Draft photos are excluded.
• Unlisted galleries are omitted from portfolio navigation and search indexing, but anyone with the direct link can open them unless a password is also required.
• Password-protected galleries publish a password gate and are excluded from the portfolio gallery index.
• A published photo can have its own readable photo page when it appears in a Public, non-password gallery.

Publish later changes

1. 01Save the editUse Save portfolio, Save gallery, Save photo, or Save in Appearance. The public version does not change yet.
2. 02Check Unpublished changesOpen Portfolio and review which items differ from the live version.
3. 03Preview and publish againGenerate a fresh preview, then select Publish changes. Gallery order, photo order, metadata, visibility, URLs, covers, and appearance changes all require a new publish.

Take the portfolio offline

1. 01Open Danger zoneIn Portfolio > Publishing, expand Danger zone.
2. 02Select Unpublish portfolioConfirm the action. The public portfolio and its gallery pages go offline, while the editable draft remains in Studio.
3. 03Publish again when readyReturn to Portfolio and publish the draft at any time. Unpublishing is not the same as deleting the portfolio or account.

Restore a previous live version

1. 01Open Publish historyIn the Publishing panel, expand Publish history and select Open publish history.
2. 02Choose a successful versionCompare the published date and gallery and photo counts, then select Restore this version.
3. 03Confirm the restorationThe selected version replaces the live portfolio. Your current Studio draft does not change, so you can return to it and publish it again later.