# How do I change the pages after my demo is live?

> Open Demo settings, find Update the live demo, and press Update live demo to start a private draft. In the draft, re-read your site, tick or untick pages, press Check selected pages, then press Publish update once every ticked page of your website passes. Your current demo stays live and unchanged until you publish.

Reviewed 2026-10-27.

## Steps

1. Open Demo settings and find Update the live demo.
2. Press Update live demo. A Draft update opens with every page DemoPage knows, each page of a group on its own row.
3. Press Re-read website to pick up new or changed pages. New pages arrive unticked; see [how DemoPage reads your site](https://demopage.io/help/reading-your-site.md).
4. Tick or untick pages. Under a ticked page, Special instructions lets you tell the guide what to say about it; see [How do I tell the guide what to say about a page?](https://demopage.io/help/page-special-instructions.md)
5. Press Check selected pages. DemoPage loads each ticked page of your website the way a demo will, and a line under the buttons says how many passed. Publish update turns on once every selected page passes.
6. Press Publish update, or Discard to throw the draft away.

![A Draft update for Northwind: Re-read website, Check selected pages, a greyed Publish update, Discard, and the page list with Home ticked.](https://storage.googleapis.com/demopage-media/docs/update-draft.cb2505fed3aa.webp)

## Good to know

- Any change in the draft, a saved instruction included, clears the check, so press Check selected pages again before you publish.
- Keep at least one page of its own ticked, or the check stops with "Keep at least one standalone page."
- An update loads the pages of your website only. Signed-in pages aren't loaded again and don't hold up Publish update. To check them again, save them under Signed-in product pages; see [How do I show my product's signed-in screens?](https://demopage.io/help/show-signed-in-product.md)
- Re-reading counts toward the 6 site reads a day. After that, the portal says "Your site was read several times today. Try again tomorrow."
- If your live demo changes while a draft is open, for example after the nightly page check or after you save signed-in pages, publishing says "The live demo changed after this update started. Start the update again." Press Discard and start a new update.
- A presentation isn't part of the draft. Changes under Presentation and approved pages save straight away; see [adding a presentation](https://demopage.io/help/upload-a-presentation.md).
- A page that fails the check stays out of demos; see [Why was a page kept out of my demos?](https://demopage.io/help/pages-kept-out.md)

Step by step: [Change pages after going live](https://demopage.io/docs/pages-and-access.md#change-pages).

## Related questions

- [How do I set what the guide can open in my demo?](https://demopage.io/help/choose-pages.md)
- [How do I tell the guide what to say about a page?](https://demopage.io/help/page-special-instructions.md)
- [How does DemoPage read my website?](https://demopage.io/help/reading-your-site.md)
- [Why was a page kept out of my demos?](https://demopage.io/help/pages-kept-out.md)

Still stuck? Email hello@demopage.io. All questions: [Help center](https://demopage.io/help.md).