Temporarily hiding mobile variant

[yjs]

Is there a way to temporarily hide a mobile variant? The main (desktop) version needs to go live right away, but I'll need to do quite a lot of tweaks on the mobile version before publishing. Ideally I'd like to do this alongside work on the main version, but with the public seeing only the desktop version for now, and this status (live desktop variant, hidden mobile variant) should remain while I make and publish changes to the desktop version.

[gwpriester]

Save your site. Then save your site with a new name, for example Desktop only. Delete the Mobile Variant and publish.

If you have already published, delete the files from the Mobile Variant.

[yjs]

Thanks, would that mean that just the changes are republished or the whole site?

[gwpriester]

Correct because the copy you are working with does not have a mobile variant so there is no mobile update.

[yjs]

Correct because the copy you are working with does not have a mobile variant so there is no mobile update.

Sorry I wasn't clear. What I meant was: if I
a) create a dual variant site (S1) and save
b) Save with a different name (S2), remove mobile variant from S2 then publish S2
c) edit S1, save again to S2, remove mobile variant from S2 then publish S2

- will I be republishing the whole of S2's desktop version, or just the changes that I made to the desktop version? Thanks

[gwpriester]

Good question. I am not sure.

Do you want to have the mobile site up at the same time? This gets very messy. You can stop sharing the mobile variant (you will have to do this page by page) but then any changes you make to the main variant will have to be made manually to the mobile variant.