If you republish your site with SiteBuilder, then find that your blog is missing recent content or other updates, there's a good chance that you simply overwrote your blog with old versions of those same pages. Don't worry! You can easily remedy this problem by visiting your Movable Type control panel and rebuilding your blog.

What Happened
When you create a Movable Type blog as part of your site, then import your site into SiteBuilder, you save copies of your blog pages (along with the rest of your site files) to your own computer, where you can work with them offline using SiteBuilder. When you use SiteBuilder to republish your site, you republish these blog pages as well.

(Important: We recommend that you do not to use SiteBuilder to modify your blog files. Learn more.)

Movable Type's publishing system can communicate only with pages on Yahoo!'s web servers — in other words, the blog pages your visitors see on the Internet. It cannot modify the copies of your blog pages that you made when you imported them into SiteBuilder. After you imported your site, Movable Type continued to update your active blog with any changes you or your site visitors made (such as updating settings, adding posts, or leaving comments), but these changes could not be extended to the copies on your computer.

When you publish your site, you transfer copies of your files from your computer to the Yahoo! servers. When you republished your site with SiteBuilder, then, you copied your downloaded site — including the now-outdated blog files — to the Yahoo! servers. Your out-of-date blog files replaced the same pages Movable Type had updated.

Now What?
Because your blog information is stored in a database, you don't need to worry about losing your latest posts or comments if you accidentally republish old versions of your pages. Movable Type creates and updates your blog pages by transferring information stored in your blog database to HTML pages. To update your pages with your latest blog content and settings, you'll just need to use the "rebuild" tool in your Movable Type control panel to send the latest database information to your blog pages.

You'll find that you need to rebuild your blog occasionally, such as when you change certain blog settings. To rebuild your blog anytime:

1. Sign in to your Web Hosting Control Panel.
2. Visit the Manage tab.
3. In the first module, click the "Blog Manager" link.
4. On the following page, locate the module that corresponds with the blog you'd like to rebuild.
5. Click the "Visit blog control panel" link to access your blog control panel. You'll be asked to sign in if you haven't already.
6. Select the title of the blog you want to rebuild.
7. Click the "Rebuild Site" link, located at the bottom of the navigation bar on the left side of the page. A rebuild pop-up window will open.
8. Choose "Rebuild All Files" from the pull-down menu provided, then click "Rebuild" to begin the rebuilding process.

Please note that your Yahoo! Movable Type software does not support dynamic publishing. Learn more about rebuilding on the Movable Type support site.