## **🔍 Overview**

After certain platform updates or fix deployments, you may notice unexpected changes to your blog articles in Website Studio. Common symptoms include:

- Blog articles disappearing from your blog page
- New articles appearing at the bottom of the list instead of the top
- Duplicate blog posts created when editing and republishing an article
- Only one blog article showing at a time instead of all published posts
- Articles deleted in Content Genius remaining visible in Website Studio, or vice versa

These issues are linked to resolved platform bugs affecting how Content Genius and Website Studio sync blog content. This article explains what caused these issues and what steps you can take to restore your blog to the correct state.

## **⚙️ What Caused These Issues**

Several interconnected bugs affected the way blog articles were published, updated, and deleted between Content Genius and Website Studio. Here is a plain-language summary of each:

- **Only one blog kept at a time:** A bug caused Website Studio to replace all existing blog posts with only the most recently published article, removing all previously published posts from view.
- **Republishing created a duplicate instead of updating:** When you edited and republished an existing article in Content Genius, Website Studio generated a brand-new post with a new URL instead of updating the original post in place. This led to duplicate entries and broken links.
- **Delete actions not syncing correctly:** Deleting a blog article in Content Genius did not always remove it from Website Studio, and delete actions on synced articles were not reliably carried through. This has now been corrected.
- **New articles appearing at the bottom:** Related to ordering logic, newly published articles were appended to the bottom of the blog list rather than displayed at the top in reverse-chronological order.

All of the above bugs have been resolved by the Search Atlas engineering team. However, if your blog content was affected before the fixes were deployed, you may need to take a few manual steps to restore it.

## **✅ How to Restore Your Blog Articles**

Follow these steps to check and correct the state of your blog articles in Website Studio after these fixes were deployed.

1. **Audit your blog page in Website Studio.** Navigate to Website Studio and open your blog page. Note any articles that are missing, duplicated, or out of order.
2. **Cross-reference with Content Genius.** Go to Content Genius and review your published articles list. Confirm which articles should be live and compare against what is currently showing in Website Studio.
3. **Remove duplicate posts.** If you see duplicate entries caused by republishing, identify the duplicate (usually the newer URL created during re-publish) and delete it from Website Studio. Keep the original post to preserve its URL and any backlinks pointing to it.
4. **Republish missing articles.** For any articles that are no longer visible in Website Studio but still exist in Content Genius, open each article in Content Genius and use the **Send to Website Studio** option to republish it. The fix ensures each article now updates in place rather than creating a new post.
5. **Check article ordering.** After republishing, verify that your blog list displays articles in reverse-chronological order with the newest post at the top. If ordering still appears incorrect, try reordering posts manually within the Website Studio blog settings.
6. **Clear your browser cache and reload.** Some display issues persist due to cached page data. Clear your cache and reload your blog page to confirm the final state reflects your changes.

## **🚫 How to Avoid These Issues Going Forward**

Now that the underlying bugs are resolved, your Content Genius and Website Studio blog workflow should behave reliably. Keep these best practices in mind:

- **Edit articles in Content Genius before republishing.** The platform now updates the existing Website Studio post in place, so you no longer need to worry about duplicates being created.
- **Use the delete action consistently.** Deleting an article in Content Genius will now correctly remove it from Website Studio as well. Always confirm the deletion on both sides if you want the post fully removed.
- **Avoid manually duplicating posts** as a workaround for editing — this is no longer necessary and will create unintended duplicate URLs.

## **💬 Need Additional Help?**

If your blog articles are still missing, out of order, or duplicated after following the steps above, our team can investigate your specific account and restore content where possible. 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.