diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 555fd3e4..0ebe6310 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Easy-to-use GitHub Action to use [Wrangler](https://developers.cloudflare.com/wo
 
 ## Usage
 
-Add `wrangler-action` to the workflow for your Workers/Pages application. The below example will publish a Worker on a `git push` to the `main` branch:
+Add `wrangler-action` to the workflow for your Workers/Pages application. The below example will deploy a Worker on a `git push` to the `main` branch:
 
 ```yaml
 name: Deploy
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ jobs:
     name: Deploy
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v2
-      - name: Publish
+      - name: Deploy
         uses: cloudflare/wrangler-action@3.0.0
         with:
           apiToken: ${{ secrets.CF_API_TOKEN }}
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ jobs:
         SECRET2: ${{ secrets.SECRET2 }}
 ```
 
-If you need to run additional shell commands before or after your command, you can specify them as input to `preCommands` (before `publish`) or `postCommands` (after `publish`). These can include additional `wrangler` commands (that is, `whoami`, `kv:key put`) or any other commands available inside the `wrangler-action` context.
+If you need to run additional shell commands before or after your command, you can specify them as input to `preCommands` (before `deploy`) or `postCommands` (after `deploy`). These can include additional `wrangler` commands (that is, `whoami`, `kv:key put`) or any other commands available inside the `wrangler-action` context.
 
 ```yaml
 jobs:
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ jobs:
     name: Deploy
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      - name: Publish
+      - name: Deploy
         uses: cloudflare/wrangler-action@3.0.0
         with:
           apiToken: ${{ secrets.CF_API_TOKEN }}
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ Note that there are a number of possible events, like `push`, that can be used t
 
 ### Deploy your Pages site (production & preview)
 
-If you want to deploy your Pages project with GitHub Actions rather than the built-in continous integration (CI), then this is a great way to do it. Wrangler 2 will populate the commit message and branch for you. You only need to pass the project name. If a push to a non-production branch is done, it will publish as a preview deployment:
+If you want to deploy your Pages project with GitHub Actions rather than the built-in continous integration (CI), then this is a great way to do it. Wrangler 2 will populate the commit message and branch for you. You only need to pass the project name. If a push to a non-production branch is done, it will deploy as a preview deployment:
 
 ```yaml
 on: [push]
@@ -157,12 +157,12 @@ jobs:
     name: Deploy
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      - name: Publish
+      - name: Deploy
         uses: cloudflare/wrangler-action@3.0.0
         with:
           apiToken: ${{ secrets.CF_API_TOKEN }}
           accountId: ${{ secrets.CF_ACCOUNT_ID }}
-          command: pages publish --project-name=example
+          command: pages deploy --project-name=example
 ```
 
 ### Deploying on a schedule
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ jobs:
     name: Deploy
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      - name: Publish app
+      - name: Deploy app
         uses: cloudflare/wrangler-action@3.0.0
         with:
           apiToken: ${{ secrets.CF_API_TOKEN }}
@@ -206,11 +206,11 @@ jobs:
     name: Deploy
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      - name: Publish app
+      - name: Deploy app
         uses: cloudflare/wrangler-action@3.0.0
         with:
           apiToken: ${{ secrets.CF_API_TOKEN }}
-          command: publish --env ${{ github.event.inputs.environment }}
+          command: deploy --env ${{ github.event.inputs.environment }}
 ```
 
 For more advanced usage or to programmatically trigger the workflow from scripts, refer to [the GitHub documentation](https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/actions#create-a-workflow-dispatch-event) for making API calls.
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ jobs:
     name: Deploy
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      - name: Publish app
+      - name: Deploy app
         uses: cloudflare/wrangler-action@3.0.0
         with:
           apiToken: ${{ secrets.CF_API_TOKEN }}
diff --git a/action.yml b/action.yml
index eeeb97a3..ace0ae50 100644
--- a/action.yml
+++ b/action.yml
@@ -15,21 +15,21 @@ inputs:
     required: false
 
   environment:
-    description: "The environment you'd like to publish your Workers project to - must be defined in wrangler.toml"
+    description: "The environment you'd like to deploy your Workers project to - must be defined in wrangler.toml"
   workingDirectory:
     description: "The relative path which Wrangler commands should be run from"
     required: false
   wranglerVersion:
-    description: "The version of Wrangler you'd like to use to publish your Workers project"
+    description: "The version of Wrangler you'd like to use to deploy your Workers project"
     required: false
   secrets:
     description: "A string of environment variable names, separated by newlines. These will be bound to your Worker as Secrets and must match the names of environment variables declared in `env` of this workflow."
     required: false
   preCommands:
-    description: "Commands to execute before publishing the Workers project"
+    description: "Commands to execute before deploying the Workers project"
     required: false
   postCommands:
-    description: "Commands to execute after publishing the Workers project"
+    description: "Commands to execute after deploying the Workers project"
     required: false
   command:
     description: 'The Wrangler command (along with any arguments) you wish to run. Multiple Wrangler commands can be run by separating each command with a newline. Defaults to `"deploy"`.'