A general outline of how publishing articles on beemy works
General Overview
As soon as you click the publish button, a few things happen behind the scenes to make your content viewable to others:
The article is scanned for any images and media. If any images or media are present, our database moves those files from a private directory to a public directory. This means that articles with more media files will take longer to publish (but only by a little bit!). While you are in the process of writing, the only person that can view any of your content is you and only you.
Once the files are moved, we can then convert the article draft into a published article! This process is similar to moving media files because we are making your draft article viewable to the world.
After all the content is moved, our backend then proceeds to build the website content for its unique writer URL (and if the article belongs to any blog page, that article blog page URL is created as well). This enables the article page to be served to your audience lightning-fast speed!
Editing Mode
When a live article is in edit mode, the original article is still viewable by others. Once you update the article, the publishing process will take place to replace the old article content with the new content. Note that when a live article is in edit mode, the button will reflect this by displaying Update rather than Publish. Updated articles will show the text Updated on the article page to reflect that this article has changed since its initial publication.
Updating Live Blog Page Articles
If an article belongs to a blog page, the old blog page article content will automatically be updated on re-publish, so no additional action is required by the writer to update blog page articles. Note that if a slug of an article changes after updating, the old blog page slug will still be used. In order to update the article blog page slug, re-add that article to the blog page and then update the page. In the future, we are looking to make the process of updating blog page slugs simpler.