Deleting a site

Who can delete a site

Only the team owner can delete a site. Every other member of the team has the same access as the owner everywhere else — editing, publishing, connecting domains, creating new sites — but the Delete button is not shown to them at all.

This is the single deliberate exception to how team permissions work in Zitegen. Deleting a site cannot be undone, so it is the one action reserved to the person who owns the workspace.

What deleting removes

Deleting a site is permanent and immediate. There is no trash, no archive, and no way to restore it afterwards — not from version history, and not by contacting support. It removes:

• The live site. The published version goes offline, along with every past deployment and your .zitegen.app address.
• All content. Pages, articles, content types, taxonomies, field groups, templates, shared components, and code snippets.
• Version history. Every saved version of every page.
• Media and uploads. Everything in the Media Manager, plus any files visitors uploaded through your forms.
• Forms and leads. Every form submission the site has ever captured. If you need them, export your leads first.
• Analytics. All recorded page views for the site.

Custom domains and registered domains

If you connected a custom domain, deleting the site disconnects it. The domain itself is unaffected — you still own it, and you can point it at another Zitegen site by connecting it again from that site's Domains tab.

A domain you registered through Zitegen is also unaffected. Your registration and its renewal date survive the site being deleted; only the link between the domain and that particular site is removed.

If a publish is still running

Zitegen will refuse to delete a site while it is in the middle of publishing, and will ask you to wait until the build finishes. A publish usually takes around a minute and a half.

This is deliberate. A build that is already underway finishes by pushing your site live — so deleting halfway through could tear the site down and then watch the build put it straight back up, leaving a copy online that no longer appears anywhere in your dashboard. Waiting for the build avoids that entirely.

If a build failed or was interrupted, the block clears on its own — you do not need to do anything to unstick it.

How to delete a site

Open your dashboard, find the site's card, and choose Delete. You will be asked to confirm, and the confirmation names the site and the address that is about to go offline — read it, because the action starts as soon as you confirm.

If you only want to take a site offline temporarily, deleting is the wrong tool. There is no unpublish action that keeps your data, so the safest way to step back from a site is simply to stop publishing changes to it and leave it in place.