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Share your website

The Share button, link previews with your own name and picture, showing or hiding your website in the gallery, and what goes in the gallery.

Copy your link after publishing

When you publish, the box says Your website is online and shows your link with a Copy link button next to it. Click it, then paste the link into a message, an email, a school assignment or your social media bio. Anyone can open it on a phone or a computer. They don't need a Kodebloc account.

You can find the link again later. Open My projects and open the Live websites tab, or click View live on the website's card. For how addresses are made, see Your website's address.

The bar at the top of a published website

On the Free plan, every published website opens with a thin bar across the top. It says Made with Kodebloc and shows the website's name. On the right it has:

• Report, for visitors who think the website breaks the rules. See Safety on Kodebloc.
• Two small counts on wider screens: views, and how many times the website was used as a template.
• Share, so visitors can pass your website on.
• Use as template, which lets a visitor make their own copy. More on that below.

Showing your website without the bar

On a paid plan (Starter, Plus or Pro), your live websites show without the bar, so your website fills the whole screen. Only a small, see-through Report flag stays in the bottom-left corner, for safety. If your plan ends, the bar comes back.

On the Free plan, open your website with View live in My projects and you'll see a Remove this bar button on it. Only you see it, and it shows the plans. Without the bar there are no Share or Use as template buttons on your website. See Plans.

The Share button

The Share button helps your visitors share your website for you.

• On a phone, and in browsers that have one, it opens the device's own share menu. The visitor picks an app, like a chat app or email.
• Everywhere else, it copies the link and shows “Link copied. Paste it anywhere to share this website.”

If your website has more than one page, Share sends a link to the page the visitor is looking at. A friend who opens it lands on that same page.

The share count

Each share that goes through adds one to your website's share count. The count shows next to the word Share from the first share on, on wider screens. On a phone the button shows only its icon. You can also see the count in My projects, under Live websites, next to the views.

A visitor counts once a day for each website. Pressing Share ten times in a row doesn't add ten. Closing the share menu without picking an app doesn't count either.

Link previews with your own name and photo

When someone pastes your link into a chat app or a social network, many apps show a small card under it. Kodebloc fills that card in for you:

• The name is your website's name, with “built with Kodebloc” after it, so people can see where it is hosted.
• The line under it is your website's description, or the first real paragraph on the page.
• The picture is your website's main photo, usually the big one near the top. A website with no photos gets the Kodebloc picture.

A link to one page of a website with several pages gets its own card, with that page's name, like “Menu - Rosa's Bakery”, and its own first lines and photo.

Choose the card yourself

1. In the editor, click your website's name at the top left and choose Site settings.
2. Open the Sharing tab. It shows a preview of the link card.
3. Under Photo on the card, pick one of your website's photos, or leave it on Automatic. You can also paste a link to a picture in Or an image link. A picture 1200 by 630 pixels looks best.
4. To change the name and the line under it, use the Search tab: Title in search results and Description.
5. Click Save settings, then Update live site.

The settings are part of your website, so the live link only shows the new card after you update it. All the settings are covered in Site settings.

The community gallery

The community gallery is a public page of websites people built with Kodebloc. Anyone can browse it, search by name, filter by style, and sort by Newest, Most viewed or Most copied. Each card shows the website's name, its description, when it was published and the name on the account that published it.

Show or hide your website in the gallery

When you publish, the box has a Show in the community gallery checkbox. It is ticked to start with.

• Ticked: your website is listed in the gallery. New websites usually show up within about 10 minutes.
• Unticked: your website still works at its link, but it is left out of the gallery. Only people you give the link to can find it that way. In My projects it says “Only people with the link”.

To change it later without publishing again:

1. Open the website in the editor and click Publish or Update.
2. Tick or untick Show in the community gallery.
3. Click Save setting only. A website you hide usually leaves the gallery within about 10 minutes.

What goes in the gallery

The gallery shows each website once, so it stays worth browsing. These stay out of it:

• The same website published again. If you already have a website in the gallery with the same name or the same description, a new link for it stays out. To change your website, use Update instead of publishing it again. If you publish a new version to a new link, the new link takes its place in the gallery.
• An unchanged copy of someone else's website. Started from Use as template? Make it your own first, with your own words, sections and photos. A copy that only changes the name or a few words stays out.

If you try to publish one of these with Show in the community gallery ticked, Kodebloc tells you why and what to do. You can always publish it with the box unticked: it works at its link like any other website.

Adult and sexual websites, including shops for sexual products, can't be published on Kodebloc at all, in the gallery or not (see our Terms). Neither can websites for piracy (see our Terms), or ones that sell or promote drugs, weapons or gambling, or that look like scams (see our Terms), or that put children at risk (see our Terms).

Kodebloc may also take a copy that's already in the gallery out of it. The website stays online at its link and stays in My projects, where it says “Taken out of the gallery by Kodebloc”. It can't go back into the gallery, and nor can copies of it.

Use as template: copies of websites

Use as template appears on gallery cards and in the top bar of published websites. It opens the builder with the visitor's own copy of the website. They can change anything in their copy with the AI chat or by hand.

• The original website doesn't change. Copies never touch your page.
• A copy doesn't take the original owner's Site settings, like business details and social accounts. The new owner adds their own.
• Each copy adds one to the “used as a template” count on the original website.

This works both ways. Found a website you like in the gallery? Click Use as template and make it yours. It is often quicker than starting from nothing.

Tips for sharing

• Check on a phone first. Most people open shared links on a phone. Open your link on one before you send it around.
• Give it a clear name. The name shows on the link card. “Rosa's Bakery” tells people more than “My website”.
• Keep one link. Use Update live site for changes, so the link you already shared keeps working. See Update or take down a live website.
• Use your real name only if you want to. The gallery shows the name on your account. If you would rather not show it, untick the gallery box.