Removing Content From The Website

Owned by Rachel Klingler
Last updated: Mar 13, 2020
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When you want to remove a page or other content from your website, you should first remove any links to that page or content. However, removing links to a piece of content does not make it inaccessible. The content can still be found via Google. To make content inaccessible, you must Unpublish or delete (Trash) the content.

Pages

Unpublish a Page

Unpublish a page if you think you will need it again.

  1. Edit the page.

  2. In the publish box, choose the “Edit” link found after the Status.

  3. From the dropdown choose “Draft” and click the “OK” button. Click Update.

Trash a Page

  1. Edit the page.

  2. In the publish box, chose the “Move To Trash.”

Documents

There is no way to unpublish documents. You must delete them to make them inaccessible.

Documents can’t be recovered from trash. Please make sure you download a copy of the document for your records if required.

  1. Navigate to the document collection. (Collections > Documents > Files in the left side menu)

  2. Hover over the document you want to delete and click “Delete”

Replace a Document

Often, you need to update or replace a document that is already in the collection. You can delete the existing document and replace it with the new document automatically.

  1. If you would like the document URL to stay the same, make sure the new document has the same filename as the old document. This is not required; this process will automatically update links to the document on pages where it has been inserted via the Site Files button.

  2. Navigate to the document collection (Collections > Documents > Files in the left side menu), and find the file you would like to update.

  3. Hover over the file in the document collection and choose Edit.

  4. From the Edit File screen, use the Upload box to select the new file from your computer.

  5. Click “Update.” The old document will be deleted and any links to it will be replaced with links to the new document.

Forms

Forms must be embedded on a page to be filled out. However, having an ever-growing list of forms on your site can be confusing. There are two options.

Deactivate A Form

Deactivating a from removes it from any pages that it is on. A deactivated form can’t be added to a page. Forms can be re-activated at any time.

Deactivate a form by clicking the green slider on the left of your list of forms (found under Collections > Forms).

 

Delete A Form

Deleting a form deletes the record of the form and the form entries from the database. You may want to Export Entries to Excel before deleting the form.

To delete a form, navigate to your list of forms (Collections > Forms), hover over the form you’d like to delete and choose the Trash option.

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