Publish individual CMS items

<p>Until now, publishing new CMS items (or updating existing ones) required you to publish your entire site, which could be problematic — especially if someone from your team was in the middle of making design changes (how many times have you had to ask “am I ok to publish the site?”).</p><p>Thankfully, that’s no longer the case. Now you can publish and update CMS items one at a time, allowing you and your Collaborators to push content changes without worrying about breaking the site.</p><h3>In the Designer</h3><p>Let’s say you want to update a blog post and push those changes straight to your site. Now when you go to save the post, you’ll see a dropdown option, which gives you the option to publish the post directly, in addition to the existing option to stage those updates for the next site wide publish.</p><figure class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="max-width:2032px" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="fullwidth" data-rt-max-width="2032px"><div><img src="<https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/64f9399ca7d13575ff21a675/64f9399ca7d13575ff21c18fScreen%20Shot%202018-02-15%20at%201.32.02%20PM.png>" alt="Stage content changes for the next site wide publish, or instantly publish changes for individual items." width="auto" height="auto" loading="auto"></div><figcaption>‍<em>Stage content changes for the next site wide publish, or instantly publish changes for individual items.</em></figcaption></figure><h3>In the Editor</h3><p>Similarly, Collaborators can now push content changes for individual items with a new dropdown option that lets them publish one item at a time.</p><figure class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="max-width:2466px" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="fullwidth" data-rt-max-width="2466px"><div><img src="<https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/64f9399ca7d13575ff21a675/64f9399ca7d13575ff21c2cbScreen%20Shot%202018-02-15%20at%201.44.02%20PM.png>" alt="New publishing options: Editor style." width="auto" height="auto" loading="auto"></div><figcaption>‍<em>New publishing options: Editor style.</em></figcaption></figure><h3>Via the API</h3><p>We’ve also pushed updates that allow developers to publish individual CMS items with the CMS API. For more details, check out our <a href="<http://developers.webflow.com/#create-new-live-collection-item>">updated API documentation</a>.</p><h3>Publishing restrictions</h3><p>In some cases, publishing individual items would break your site. In these instances, we prevent you from being able to push single item updates. These instances include:</p><ul><li>Your site hasn’t been published</li><li>The structure of the Collection for that item (or a referenced item) has changed </li><li>You have multiple domains published at different times</li><li>The item’s references create circular dependencies (for example, a blog post has an author, the author has a client, and the client has a blog post)</li></ul><p>In each of these situations, the fix is simple: publish your entire site (to all domains) to make sure everything’s in sync.</p>