Publishing a design.

The Publish button in the design canvas turns the current version of your design into a public URL at ladle.app/d/[slug]. Anyone with the link can view it — no signup, no LADLE account needed. There's a small "designed with ladle" credit in the corner and nothing else on the page.

The publish is a snapshot. When you click Publish, the current HTML content of the design is copied into a separate database record with a random 8-character slug. Later edits to the design in your canvas do NOT update the public URL — the public version stays exactly as it was at publish time. This is deliberate: publishing should feel like committing, not like a live-updating share.

To publish a newer version, hit Publish again — you'll get a new URL. The old URL keeps working (still shows the earlier snapshot) until you unpublish it, so you can share both if you want.

To unpublish, open the design canvas, use the "Manage published versions" menu (currently in Settings → Data), and revoke the specific slug. Revoked URLs return a 404. The snapshot content stays in our database for 90 days for audit purposes, then is fully deleted.

What CAN'T be published today: designs that fail our content-policy scan (offensive text, extraction patterns, disallowed content categories). We reserve the right to unpublish a URL if it's reported for policy violation. This is a soft policy — we haven't had a case yet — but we'd rather say so up front.