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Hide or remove?
| You want | Use | Because |
|---|---|---|
| A seasonal page (summer menu, holiday hours) off the site until next year | Hide | It stays in the administration, ready to unhide |
| A page that is not ready yet, but already created | Hide, or keep it as a draft | Visitors do not see it |
| Something harmful off the site right now | Hide first, then fix or remove | Hiding is instant and fully reversible |
| An old page nobody needs | Remove | It goes to the trash and can still be restored |
A hidden item stays in the administration but is not shown on the site, and neither is anything below it (Hide an item).
Hide an item
- In the tree on the left, click the icon in front of the item's name to open its menu.
- Choose Advanced > Hide / unhide.
The item is marked as hidden in the tree and in lists, and the badge on its page shows its visibility. Do the same again to unhide it.
Remove an item
- Open the item and press Remove.
- Read the confirmation: it says what the removal touches and which other items use this one.
- Confirm. The item, with everything below it, goes to the trash.
Items in the trash are not on the site, and can be restored (Undoing a mistake). When an item has more than one location, removing one location keeps it in its other places (Remove and restore).
Several items at once
In the Sub items list of a folder, tick the items, open More actions and choose Hide selected, Unhide selected or Remove selected (Many items at once).
Before you remove: think of links
Other pages, newsletters, search engines and bookmarks may point at the page you remove. Visitors following them land on a "not found" page. Before removing an important page:
- check the confirmation for other items that use it;
- ask your administrator whether the old address should redirect to a new page (How do I redirect old addresses?);
- for a page that might come back, prefer Hide.
Related pages
- First steps
- Undoing a mistake
- Archiving and the trash
- Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.
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