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 a full year of your site's versions, and any of them can come back.
How it works
- Get your access prompt. Log in to bernard, open your site, and copy the prompt from Edit with AI (it contains a key that works for 12 hours).
- 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.
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.”
The [bracketed] parts are yours to fill in. First time? Log in to bernard → your site → Edit with AI → copy your access prompt, paste that into your AI first, then ask the above.
Questions people ask
- Can I undo changes made to my website?
- Yes — bernard keeps a full year of your site's history. 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' always works.
- 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?
- bernard keeps a full year of versions, restorable at any point. 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.