Edit, Delete, Revert, and Unpublish content

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Upon visiting your site for the first time, you will notice that the site contains out-of-box default content (the Home page, the “How to use this website” page, the “Sample Page 1” page, the “Sample Page 1.1” page, and the “Sample Page 1.2” page). Feel free to modify the existing content to work with what you have envisioned for the site. 

Login to your site

By default there are two different places you can go to log into your site. You can:

1. Scroll to the page footer and click on Web Login, or
   
2. Navigate to the login page at [your site url]/user (i.e. https://userguide.stanford.edu/user)

Edit default content or existing pages by: 

1. Navigate to the page you would like to update.
2. Click the Edit tab located at the top left of the screen.

You should then be redirected to the editing interface.

Unpublish a page: 

Occasionally, you will want to save your page progress but not have the page accessible and/or visible to the public just yet.

You can unpublish the page so that you can continue to work on it behind the scenes. 

1. Edit the page and scroll to the bottom.
2. Right above the Save button, there should be a checkbox labeled Published.
   
3. To unpublish the page, uncheck the Published checkbox.
   
4. Save.

Tip: Use a temporary page

Unpublishing a page will hide it from visitors and search engines. If you want to make changes to an existing page and preview it before making it  visible to visitors and search engines, you can create a temporary page to develop and preview your changes. Once you're happy with the changes you can copy your changes to the original page and delete the temporary page.

Learn how to create a Basic Page

Revert page changes:

Updates to the content on a page are saved as new revisions by default. Recent revisions are stored and available in the event you need to revert to an earlier version of the page. To save on database storage, only the five most recent revisions are stored; the older revisions are removed automatically.

To revert to an earlier version of a page, go to "Edit" and click on the "Revisions" tab. 

Select a recent version, and click the "Revert" button.

Delete a page:

There are two ways to delete a page.

From viewing the page

1. Navigate to the page you would like to delete
2. Click the Delete tab located in the upper left. 
   
3. You will be redirected to a confirmation page. Select the Delete button.
   

From editing the page

1. Edit the page you would like to delete.
2. Scroll toward the bottom of the editing page.
3. To the right of the Save button, there should be a link labeled Delete.
   
4. Select Delete.
5. Save.