Put it back how it was
Sometimes a change just doesn’t sit right - the new wording, the new photo, the whole idea. On a bernard-hosted site, regret is recoverable: bernard keeps the last 100 published versions of your site, and any of them can come back. For anything older, bernard support can recover your site from backups kept up to a year.
The prompt
“Put my [name of the page] page back how it was [before today’s changes / last week / before a date you remember] - show me a preview before anything changes.”
Signed in, Get my prompt fills in your site for you. Otherwise press Copy and fill in the [bracketed] parts. First time? Connect your AI to bernard once: Use your own AI (opens in a new tab).
How it works
- Connect bernard to your AI (once). Log in to bernard, open your site, go to Use your own AI, and paste the setup prompt into your AI to connect it - a one-time setup.
- Paste it into your AI - ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, whichever you already use - then tell it what to put back and roughly when it was right, or use the prompt below.
- Approve. The restored version arrives as a preview link, just like any other change. Check it’s the one you remember, press Approve, and it’s live again.
You can also skip the AI entirely: your bernard dashboard lists every published version of your site (Sites → your site → Versions), and you can restore any of them yourself with a click.
Under the hood this is real version control - the same git technology software teams trust with their work. Every change is a snapshot with a note saying what it was and why, which is what makes “put it back how it was” a one-click answer instead of a rebuild.
A whole page you removed comes back the same way: see bring back a page I lost. And if you can’t remember exactly what you asked for, your past conversations are kept.
Questions people ask
- Can I undo changes made to my website?
- Yes - bernard keeps the last 100 published versions of your site. Ask your AI to restore the earlier version, or do it yourself from your bernard dashboard (Sites → your site → Versions). ‘How it was last week’ works, as long as that version is among the last 100.
- Does restoring an old version go live straight away?
- Not when the AI does it - the restored version arrives as a draft with a preview link, and it only goes live when you press Approve. You’re never one wrong word away from a broken site.
- What if I only want one page put back, not the whole site?
- Ask for exactly that - ‘put the about page back how it was, leave everything else alone’. The AI restores just that page and you approve it on a preview.
- How far back does the history go?
- You can see and restore the last 100 published versions yourself. For anything older, bernard support can recover your site from backups kept up to a year. Every change is recorded with a plain-English note saying what it was, so finding the version you want is reading a list, not guesswork.