GoDaddy Website Builder Tutorials: The Procedure Index
Every procedure in this index was written against the live Websites + Marketing editor: numbered steps, exact menu paths, cautions where the machine bites. Pick the job, follow the steps.
These GoDaddy website builder tutorials are written the way a service manual writes a brake job: numbered steps you can follow with one hand on the mouse, exact menu paths instead of vague directions, and a caution plate wherever a step is destructive. Every procedure is verified against the live editor and against GoDaddy's own documentation before it is filed here, and re-checked when GoDaddy moves a menu.
One routing note before the index: if you are still deciding whether to run this machine at all, that is a different document — read the full GoDaddy Website Builder review first. Everything below assumes you already own the thing and need it to behave.
Editing procedures
The jobs you do inside the editor itself — adding things GoDaddy did not put a button for, and undoing the ones you regret.
Add custom HTML to a GoDaddy site
You need this when a widget, map, calculator, or third-party embed has to live on the page and no built-in section covers it. The procedure walks the HTML section's Custom Code field — and explains why analytics tags and pixels go in Settings instead, not in a code section.
Add a form to a GoDaddy website
For contact forms, quote requests, and any custom-field intake. Covers adding and reordering fields, the two parts you cannot delete (the Email field and the Send button), and where submissions actually go — the notification address you set, plus the GoDaddy Conversations inbox.
Undo changes in the GoDaddy builder
When an edit went wrong five minutes ago, or five days ago. Covers the Undo and Redo buttons in the top bar, the Site History backup system under Settings, and the caution that matters: a restore rolls back everything after the backup timestamp, not just the one mistake.
Publishing procedures
Taking a site off the road — temporarily or permanently. Read the caution plates in these two before touching anything; one of the procedures has no reverse gear.
Unpublish a GoDaddy website
The reversible option: Settings → Unpublish takes the site offline behind a Coming Soon page while you keep full editing access. Use this for rebrands, disputes, or any pause where you might want the site back tomorrow.
Delete a GoDaddy website
The permanent option, plus the two alternatives GoDaddy would rather you consider first: turning off auto-renew, or resetting the site build while keeping the plan. CAUTION: a hard delete kills the site immediately even if paid time remains on the subscription — read this one before you click.
Store procedures
Remove the shopping cart from a GoDaddy site
For sites that inherited a store they never wanted. There is no disable-commerce toggle in the current builder; the documented method is deleting the Shop page, and this procedure covers that plus disconnecting any linked marketplaces. It also flags the legacy advice on other blogs that no longer matches the current editor.
Setup and decisions
Not strictly procedures — these are the reference documents you consult before committing money or a design direction.
GoDaddy templates walkthrough
How themes actually work — a layout, font, and color system over your content — and how to switch one without losing anything. Read it before a redesign; the switch is safe, but the backup-restore behavior around it has a trap worth knowing.
GoDaddy plans compared
Basic, Premium, and Commerce, torn down feature by feature — with the first-term promo price and the renewal price printed side by side, because the second number is the one you will actually live with.
GoDaddy free website limits
Every fence on the free tier, mapped: the godaddysites.com subdomain, the ad banner, the missing checkout and custom code. Consult it before you invest hours in a free site, so you know exactly which wall you will hit first.
How the procedures are written
Three rules govern every entry in this index. Steps are numbered, one action per step, so you always know where you stopped. Menu paths are written exactly as they appear in the editor — Settings → Site History, not "the history area" — and updated when GoDaddy renames something. Destructive steps carry a caution line before the step, not after it, because a warning you read after clicking is a confession, not a warning.