Publishing turns a draft into a page anyone can read, listed on your blog’s home page and reachable at its own address.
Publish a draft
- Open the recipe in the editor.
- Press Publish recipe.
- If your blog is Private, a prompt reminds you of that visibility. Press Post privately to publish the recipe, or Publish publicly on the web to subscribe and put the blog on the web. If your blog is Unlisted, press Publish as unlisted to continue, or Change visibility to open Settings. Public blogs skip this.
- The status badge changes to Published and a View live link appears.
What publishing checks
- A title of at least 3 characters.
- A short description of at least 10 characters — readers see it on your recipe index.
- A valid web address: lowercase letters, numbers and single hyphens, 3 to 80 characters, and not already used by another of your recipes.
- No blank ingredient lines and no blank steps.
A photo is recommended, especially on a public blog, but it is not required to publish.
Anything it refuses is reported on the field itself, and nothing is written until it passes. Drafts are checked far more loosely, which is why a half-finished recipe saves without complaint.
Your blog has to be online
Publishing puts a page on the public web, and that is what a subscription pays for. If nothing is paying for your blog, Publish recipe saves your work as a draft first and then offers you a subscription, so nothing you wrote is at risk while you sort out payment.
During your free trial, subscribing does not bring the charge forward — you are not billed until the trial would have ended.
Where the recipe appears
- On your blog’s Home page and on the Recipes page, newest first.
- At /your-address/recipes/your-recipe-address.
- In the “More in …” blocks of other recipes that share a tag with it. How related recipes work