Preventing Publishing or Unmarking Content for Publish

Owned by Melissa Chavira
Last updated: May 14, 2024
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In Cascade, if you want to temporarily prevent your content from being published, you’ll need to configure the asset – a page or folder – from being published. This process is different from un-publishing an asset.

Why would I need to prevent publishing?

If you are working on a page that is in development and not ready for it to go live with the rest of your site, then preventing publishing is the approach to take. This will prevent any type of accidental publish from an another website editor or any other publishing schedule that is set.

Following the instructions below will essentially "freeze" any content you already have on the webserver. It is recommended that you unpublish your content before disabling publishing for any asset.

Instructions

  1. Locate the page that you want to prevent from being published and click Edit.

  2. Click the Configure tab.

  3. The Configure tab will show checkboxes for indexing and publishing. Un-check the include when publishing box.

  4. Click Preview Draft and then Submit to save your changes to the CMS.

Uncheck the “Include when indexing” box if you would like site crawlers such as Google to “skip” this asset when listing content from your website in search results.

Make sure to keep track of any assets that you have prevented and/or unmarked for publish. For pages or documents that you do not plan to publish again, it is recommended to unpublish these assets (to remove existing indexes), and then delete them so they do not publish again.

Preventing Publishing for a Folder

If you have several pages you would like to prevent from being published, you can move them all to one folder and then prevent the folder from being published.

 

  1. Locate the folder that you want to prevent from being published and click Edit.

  2. Click the Properties tab.

  3. The Properties tab will show checkboxes for indexing and publishing. Un-check the include when publishing box.

  4. Click Submit.