Deleting or unpublishing web pages and articles in the WMS


OVERVIEW

Target Audience: Site Administrators, Site Managers

When a page or article in the Web Management System (WMS) is no longer needed, you can delete or unpublish it.

In this article:


Unpublishing a page or an article

This is the simplest way to unpublish a page or an article:

  1. Navigate to the page/article and click Unpublish this revision in the yellow box that appears at the top of the page. This will unpublish all revisions of the page/article.

  2. Confirm the Unpublish action or Cancel. On the confirmation page, you can choose to put the page/article into either the Draft or Needs Review state, using the Set moderation state dropdown list.

    Note: Child pages of unpublished pages/articles remain published, but will not appear in the menu until they are assigned to a new parent menu item.

  3. Click Unpublish to complete the action. You will be brought to the Moderate tab, which shows that the page/article is now unpublished and gives you information (dates and site editors) about all previous revisions of the page/article.


Unpublishing from the Moderate tab

An alternative way to unpublish a page/article:

  1. Navigate to the page/article
  2. Click the Moderate tab
  3. Choose Unpublish under the Moderation Actions column in the green-shaded row containing the revision that's published. Note that it is not always the top row.


Deleting a page or article from the New Draft tab

  Please note that deleting a page is a permanent action that removes data entirely from the website.

To delete a page or article from the New Draft tab:

  1. Navigate to the page/article
  2. Click the New Draft tab
  3. Scroll to the bottom and click Delete.
  4. You are prompted to either continue with the Delete action or Cancel.

    Once you click Delete, all revisions of the page/article are deleted.


Deleting a page or article from the My Workbench tab

You can also delete a page/article via My Workbench:

  1. Click My Workbench and search for the page/article on the My Content tab.
  2. Once you have located the page/article, click delete from the Actions column within that row.
  3. You are prompted to either continue with the Delete action or Cancel. Once you click Delete, all revisions of the page/article are deleted.
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NOTES:

Note 1: If you are deleting a top-level page with a primary menu item and it has child pages, the prompt to delete the page will also include a list of the child pages. When the primary menu item is removed, its immediate children will be automatically moved to the top level of the menu. If this is not the desired outcome, the child pages should be moved before the parent page is deleted.

Note 2: After a page is deleted, all the files embedded on that page will be queued for automatic deletion from the site's File List (in My Workbench) unless the files are embedded on other pages, in which case they will be unaffected.

Note 3: There is no way to delete a specific revision of a page/article.


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