Unpublish a page without deleting it
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I was wondering if it is possible to unpublish pages without deleted them. I have on inparticular, http://catesbooknuthut.com/big-heart-project/ that I do not need visible on my blog until the end of April.
Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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With a post, yes. With a page, no. There is not. The best you can do is what you have done, to set it to private.
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And if you are using a custom menu to add navigation tabs to guide your readers to those pages, then you will want to change your links. If you set a page to “private,” or delete it, then the custom menu link will go to a “page not found” 404 link unless you remove it from the custom menu.
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Do you ever look back at something you wrote and think to yourself “What in the world was I thinking?”
Of course you can set a page back to a draft status by doing exactly what Auxclass said.
Auxclass and Tess have steered you correct, I am full of beans. My apologies. Keyboard brain disconnect I guess.
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So this was annoying me, why would I have messed this up?
I figured it out, the “Edit Status” toggle doesn’t appear if you have a post set to private. You have to set it back to public and then the “Edit Status” will appear again allowing you to revert to draft.
Still, fail on my part. Apologies.
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Oh, right! I just did that on one of my blogs. I’d forgotten that the post or page had to be public in order to set it to draft status. Or did it used to be different? It took me a few minutes to figure it out!
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staff-ozmodiar – just another link in the not open to staff viewing “staff gaffs” the we keep for amusement :)
Actually just kidding about the “staff gaffs” – but it has a nice ring to it – need to think about what to do with that one :)
There is constant checking by others here so the answers stay on point & the users get the help they need – it’s a team effort
I will refrain from boring you with things I have done in a past life – or what I have seen others do that caused problems – on one when things went boom – we were quite happy that the 42 in concrete blast walls with two inch dia. rebar in it was properly designed – almost got a JAL jet with the shrapnel on that one
But your errors / over-looked things have been small from what I can remember
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we were quite happy that the 42 in concrete blast walls with two inch dia. rebar in it was properly designed
That sounds like quite a story!
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Kind of amazed at the variety of answers. The solution to this is simple and takes only two steps.
1. Edit the page and mark it private instead of public. [Pages | Edit | edit under: Publish (at the top right)]
2. Remove the page from your menu. Some build a custom menu for their site (which I highly recommend that everyone should do). [Appearance | Menus | edit under: Menu Structure]
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Raincoaster – No sweat. Not trying to repeat things.
I read through the whole thread. Did not see someone answer it simply with both steps. I saw fragments of the answer. So I put it together in one answer.
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