magnolia
self-serve website builder
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build your first site in 30 seconds
magnolia ships with hand-designed starter sites for every common small-business type. pick the one that fits, and your reviews, services, products, and photos already pull in from your other wymzy apps.
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publish your site
magnolia sites publish to a wymzy.site subdomain instantly. share the link anywhere — print it on a business card, drop it in your bio.
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swap themes without losing your content
themes in magnolia are color and typography combos — not whole rewrites. swap them as often as you want; your headlines, photos, and section layouts stay put.
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add a new page to your site
your starter site comes with the right pages for most businesses, but you can add as many more as you need — a services detail page, an about page, a portfolio page, a blog.
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let customers book straight from the site
the booking section on a magnolia site is wired to junebug — visitors pick a slot from your live availability and the appointment lands on your calendar.
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capture leads from your contact form
the contact form on a magnolia site drops every submission straight into your marigold lead pipeline — no spreadsheet, no copy-paste from email.
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keep the site fresh without republishing
connected sections are the magic — change a price in magpie, add a review in foxfire, drop a photo in bullfrog, and your site reflects it on the next page-load. no republish needed.
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edit any headline, button, or paragraph inline
magnolia's editor is wysiwyg. there's no separate "content" panel and a "design" panel — you click the words on the page and they turn into an input.
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swap a photo without leaving the editor
every image slot on a magnolia site is wired to bullfrog — your cloud storage. click a photo to pick a new one from your library, or upload a fresh one in place.
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add a section to any page
starter sites come with the right sections for most businesses, but you can drop in any of the 20 section kinds — hero, about, services, products, gallery, faq, pricing, testimonials, video, contact, booking, and more.
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reorder or remove sections
the order of sections on the page is the order visitors read them. move them around freely — there's no "locked" section.
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turn the bluegill chat widget on or off for this site
if you've got a bluegill chatbot configured, you can drop it onto your magnolia site as a small chat launcher in the corner — or leave it off for a quieter look. the toggle is per-site.
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preview your draft before going live
magnolia keeps a draft and a published version side by side. preview shows the draft as a visitor would see it — without changing what's live.
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change your wymzy.site subdomain
magnolia gave you a subdomain when you first opened the app. it's based on your business name, but you can rename it any time — the only constraint is it has to be unique across the platform.
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point your own domain at the site
for a more polished look — yourbusiness.com instead of yourbusiness.wymzy.site — connect a domain through heron and attach it to magnolia.
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let visitors subscribe to your newsletter
the newsletter section captures email signups straight into mudpuppy — no copy-paste from a contact form, no separate signup widget.
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add the blog section to your site
your published whippoorwill posts auto-pull into magnolia's blog section — no separate publish, no copy-paste, no separate cms to maintain. add the section once and every future post shows up.
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throw away changes since the last publish
if you've made a bunch of edits and decided you don't want any of them, you can revert your draft to whatever's currently published — no "undo" button required.
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pick a theme — warm, refined, or bold
previewthemes are the typography + spacing + button-style + animation feel for the site. three hand-designed options, personalized by your brand color.
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