Sites gather pages they no longer need: old events, out-of-date notices, drafts that never went anywhere. This guide covers removing an article from your site, and bringing it back if you change your mind.
Deleting an article
Two ways to delete, and only one way back
An article’s row menu has both ‘Move to Recycle Bin’ and ‘Delete’, and they are very different. ‘Move to Recycle Bin’ is the reversible one: recycled articles are kept indefinitely and you can restore them yourself at any time. ‘Delete’ is permanent. There’s no way to restore a deleted article yourself; our UK team can recover it within a year of deletion, and after that it’s gone for good. If in doubt, use the recycle bin.
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Log in to your web office and select the group that holds the article.
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Open the Content page.
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On the article’s row menu (the three dots to the right of its name), choose ‘Move to Recycle Bin’.
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The article comes off your site straight away and sits in the recycle bin until you need it.
Getting an article back
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On the Content page, click the ‘Recycle Bin’ filter button (the trash icon) to show recycled items.
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On the article’s row menu, choose ‘Remove from Recycle Bin’. The article returns as a draft.
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Publish it to put it back on your site.
Good to know
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You often don’t need to delete at all. Three gentler ways to retire content: unpublish it (your menus only show groups with a published homepage article, so the group quietly drops out); hide the group by unticking include in user-side menus or tightening its visibility; or create a ‘Not in use’ group at the bottom of your tree and move retired groups into it, out of sight but ready to bring back. That last one is a lovely way to spring-clean a group tree that’s grown over the years without destroying anything.
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Recycling an article doesn’t touch the group it sits in, or anything else in that group.
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If the article was the group’s homepage, the group may drop out of your site’s menu until you set another homepage article.
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If a page only needs to come down temporarily, setting a removal date is often tidier than deleting; see the guide on scheduling articles.
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