Going back to an earlier version
Electbase keeps a history of your site so that a bad afternoon of editing is a few clicks to undo rather than a rebuild.
What gets kept
Two kinds of snapshot, and the difference matters:
Every publish is kept, permanently. Each time you publish, that exact version of your site is recorded and stays recorded. If you want the site as it stood the week before the primary, it's there.
Autosaves are kept for a while. As you work, Electbase snapshots your draft roughly every ten minutes, and keeps the most recent thirty. Those are for "I've made a mess in the last hour", not for long-term recall.
So the rule of thumb is: anything you published, you can get back. Anything you only drafted, you can get back for a while.
Snapshots are captured on every tier from the moment you start building. Browsing and restoring them is a Grassroots-and-up feature — but if you upgrade later, the history is already there waiting rather than starting from the day you paid.
Restoring
Pick a version and restore it. Two things happen that are worth knowing before you press it:
Your current draft is snapshotted first. Restoring is itself undoable — if you restore the wrong version, the thing you were working on is still in the list.
Restoring does not publish. The restored version becomes your draft, and your live site is unchanged until you publish it deliberately. That's the same separation as everywhere else in the editor: nothing reaches the public without a publish, and a publish still runs its usual checks.
That combination means restoring is safe to experiment with. You can restore an old version, look at it, decide you preferred the new one, and restore that back — all without a visitor seeing any of it.
What you'll see in the list
Versions are listed newest first, up to the most recent fifty. Publishes are distinguishable from autosaves, so you can find "the version that was live during the debate" rather than guessing among a wall of timestamps.
What it isn't
Version history restores your site content — the document your pages are built from. It is not a backup of your supporter list, your form submissions or your settings. Those live elsewhere and are not affected by restoring an older version of your pages, which is usually what you want: rolling back a design change should not un-collect Tuesday's signups.
If storage hiccups at the moment of an autosave, the save itself still succeeds — Electbase will never fail your work in order to record a snapshot of it. In practice this means history is reliable, but it is a convenience layer rather than a guarantee, so if a version matters enormously, publishing it is what makes it permanent.