🔍 Overview
Website Studio uses a shared component library to build and manage pages. Most editing and page creation issues — including changes that revert after publishing and prompts that fail to generate full pages — are linked to how the AI interacts with these shared components. This article explains the most common causes and how to resolve them.
⚠️ Why Edits Revert After Publishing
If you hide the navigation on a specific page in preview mode but the change disappears after publishing, the most likely cause is a conflict between page-level overrides and shared components.
What is happening: Navigation bars, headers, and footers are often built as shared components — meaning they apply globally across all pages. When you make a page-level change (such as hiding the navigation), the shared component can override your edit during the publish process.
How to fix it:
- Open Website Studio and navigate to the page where you want to hide the navigation.
- Instead of hiding the navigation using the page preview toggle, click on the navigation component directly to select it.
- Look for a Page Overrides or Visibility setting in the right-hand panel — this is the correct place to set page-specific visibility without affecting the global component.
- Save your changes and publish again. The override will now be respected at the component level rather than the layout level.
If the option is not visible in your panel, the component may be locked to global settings. In that case, duplicate the page template and apply a custom navigation setting to the duplicate version instead.
❌ Why Complex Page Creation Prompts Fail
When you use the AI chat in Website Studio to generate a full page with multiple sections in a single prompt, the request may partially complete or fail entirely. This is a known limitation of how the AI processes large, multi-step instructions.
Common signs of this issue:
- The page is created but several sections are missing
- The AI chat shows duplicate prompts or repeated processing messages
- The page generation appears to complete but the canvas remains blank or incomplete
How to work around this:
- Break your page creation request into smaller, sequential prompts. For example, first ask the AI to create the hero section, then ask for the features section, and so on.
- Wait for each section to fully render on the canvas before submitting the next prompt.
- If duplicate prompts appear in the chat panel, refresh the page — do not click the prompt again, as this can trigger duplicate generation requests.
- After refreshing, check whether the sections were saved. If they were, continue building from where you left off.
Important: Image replacement requests within prompts are constrained to shared components only. If you ask the AI to replace an image that is not part of a shared component, the request will be ignored. Use the direct image upload tool in the panel instead.
💡 Best Practices for Stable Page Editing
Following these practices will reduce the chance of edits reverting or prompts failing:
- Use one prompt per section when building new pages with AI assistance.
- Publish after each major change rather than batching multiple edits before a single publish.
- Avoid mixing AI-generated edits and manual edits on the same component in the same session — complete one approach before switching.
- Check shared component settings before applying page-level overrides to understand what is global versus local.
- Refresh the browser if the AI chat shows multiple or repeated prompts — do not re-submit the same request.
🔄 When to Refresh vs. When to Re-Submit
Understanding when to refresh the page versus when to re-submit a prompt will save time and prevent duplicate content.
- Refresh if: the AI chat shows multiple identical prompts, the canvas is not updating, or the page appears frozen.
- Re-submit only if: you refreshed, confirmed no content was generated, and the canvas is still empty.
- Do not re-submit if content was partially created — add missing sections with new, specific prompts instead.
🆘 Still Having Trouble?
If your edits continue to revert, prompts keep failing after following these steps, or you are experiencing issues not covered here, our team can investigate your specific setup. If you need further assistance, open the chat widget in the bottom-right corner of the platform and type human teammate to be connected with a member of our team.