Getting started

Sitepaste publishes websites. You write your pages, deploy when you are ready, and the site is live within seconds. This guide takes you from a new account to a live page.

Create an account

Sign up at sitepaste.com. Your account comes with a workspace and a site, and a short setup wizard walks you through naming the site. Your site’s address is yourusername.sitepaste.com.

The site goes live the first time you deploy. Until then, the address serves nothing.

If you are curious how workspaces and sites relate, see Sites and workspaces.

Write your first page

Open Pages in the dashboard and create a page. The editor is a visual editor with formatting controls and slash commands, and your content is stored as Markdown underneath, so you can paste Markdown straight in.

A page needs a title and a body. Everything else, such as the URL slug, the publish date, tags, and the description, has a default you can change in the editor when you need to.

If you paste Markdown that starts with front matter, the editor reads the title, description, tags, date, draft, slug, and section fields and fills in the matching form fields.

Choose a content type

Each page has a content type that decides where it appears on your site:

  • Blog posts appear in a dated feed at /blog/.
  • Docs pages get sidebar navigation at /docs/.
  • A standalone page lives at its own URL, like /about.
  • The homepage is what visitors see at the root of your site.

You pick the content type in the editor. See Content types for how each behaves, and Sections for grouping pages under paths you choose, like /recipes/ or /projects/.

Deploy

Saving a page does not make it live. When you are ready, open Deploy and deploy the site. The build usually takes a few seconds, after which your pages are live at your site address.

The Free plan includes 30 deploys per month, and Pro includes 1,000. There is a 30-second wait between deploys. Because a deploy publishes every non-draft page at once, you can save up several edits and deploy them together.

What’s on each plan

The Free plan covers writing and publishing one site. Pro adds themes, custom domains, password protection, a team, and API tokens. The Obsidian plugin, the GitHub Action, and Apple Shortcuts all publish through a token, so they need Pro too. Plans compares the two in full.

Next steps

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