How To Remove, Unpublish, Hide or Delete a Page Of Your WordPress Website (All The Right Ways)

how to remove, unpublish, hide, or delete a page off of your WordPress website all the right ways

Hello everyone, welcome back to another video. In this video I'm going to be showing you how

you're going to be able to remove, unpublish, hide, or delete a page of your WordPress website

in the right ways, none of the wrong ways. Okay, so we're going to learn how to hide or remove or

completely remove a page of our website and the page that we're going to be removing for this

tutorial is going to be our, you know, account page. Okay, so this is just obviously one example

Now if I were to go in pages over here, you know, I have like a few pages. I'm going to go ahead and

remove an account page because it's my least used page. So I would like to remove this accounts page

Okay, and in this account page let's imagine the following scenario. Okay, you started with a new

WordPress theme and your account page came with a demo template and you imported this template and

have a lot of, you know, different pages of your website that you would not like to use or you would

like to at least hide from your menu or hide from your users and, you know, just do a lot of other

stuff. So to do this, first of all, we're going to start explaining a simple way to hide this page from

our menu. So hide this page from the site, okay, and to make this page hide itself before anything

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So once we, you know, have a general idea and we've discussed about how we're going to work with that

you're going to come over here and once you come over here you can either delete a page by

clicking on trash but that will obviously not only archive a page but totally delete it and getting

it back is going to be a bit of a challenge. So we don't want to permanently delete it in my opinion

So what you can do is you can come to things like appearance, okay, I'm going to come to appearance

and once you go into appearance you can go into your menu section in appearance or a customized

section in appearance and once you go into your customized section obviously they're going to

give you options to delete different menus or, you know, display different locations for these menus

and it's a really fun and, you know, small little, you could say, branding or small little widget

a feature that you can actually see that you can add for yourself. So basically what you need to do

is, yeah, you need to actually add this kind of things to your design and once you do that it's

going to be really fun and really easy to work with it. Now to obviously start things off just go

over to menus, okay, and once you go over to menus you're going to choose the menus that you want to

add or delete. So you're going to do that and once you come down here, you know, there's the viewing of

this menu. So let's say you can delete it completely or you can hide it by unchecking these primary

or social navigations, okay. So I'm going to go ahead and uncheck them and obviously they are not

going to appear for us, you know, it's going to remove the primary menu and the menu navigation

system. Then moving on, you know, you can remove this for yourself as well by just clicking on

delete menu. This won't delete the page but it'll only delete the menu that you don't want in your

page, okay. So again, really easy, really simple stuff and again this only just removes it, okay

It does not delete the whole page or it only unpublishes it. So basically, you know, you get

the whole point. In a way, it does hide it but when it comes to a deletion, you know, deletion just

removes all of it essentially, okay. And once all of it is removed, obviously that takes us to a

little bit of a conundrum and obviously these are all the right ways of how you can do this

So it's going to be really simple to just update and, you know, quickly edit these things. So let's

say there's some type of page that I want to update or, you know, do different things to

So first of all, obviously there's the trash, okay, and I can directly add this to the trash or you can

go and edit and start updating or unpublishing different things from this page or, you know

actually hiding it other than just straight up deleting it because I'm totally against

deleting a whole page. So, you know, it says visibility public. You can change the visibility

from public to private. So what that will do is it will hide the page from the other users and

you can come to private and only visible to site admins and editors, okay. And then you can also

password protect it so only those with a password can view this post. So you can change it to these

things as well which is pretty incredible, right, because you're totally changing the whole, you

could say, output design of this because if it's private then only you and the other people in your

site can see this, you know, no one from the outside, no customers will be able to see this

basically. Then obviously you can switch this to a draft as well which will remove it from your page

okay. It won't delete it, it will only unpublish it and make it into a draft. You can't move it to

the trash or anything either. So really incredible, really easy, really simple stuff. Then you can

make revisions for yourself as well by going into revisions and everything should work from there

So pretty easy, pretty basic and pretty fun stuff to get your head around. Then moving on there's

the block section where you can get different blocks and it's really fun and really easy to

get your head around all of this. So basically that is how you can obviously unpublish pages

and hide pages from, you know, the people by just making them private. But then obviously then

comes the final resort, like if you don't want a page at all because obviously in the case a lot of

people delete their pages but they don't realize that they might need them at one point so they

just straight up delete them. So like let's say if I trash a page, like I've trashed this account page

let's say, you know, page is trashed I can undo this as of right now but if I go over here to

let's say media and I come back to pages, look at that, it's gone and I can't do nothing about it

You can't find it and trashed over here and you can't restore it but it's going to delete most of

the information about it. But this is also, you know, a relatively decent way because you've

removed this page and not permanently deleted it. It does remove most of the information about it

but it does keep its styling and stuff so you can bring it back to publish if you want to but to

permanently take it out of your WordPress because the more the things you add into your trash

the more the caching memory of your website is used and that just leads to, you know, slower

working and just, you know, a very choppy website to work with. So I don't really enjoy that so

that's why if I were to alternatively throw something into the trash I would just remove it

That's why I don't throw a lot of things into the trash. I mostly just unpublish them or make them

private. But yeah, that is how you're going to remove, unpublish, hide, or delete a page or a

post of your WordPress website in all the right ways. So I hope this tutorial was extremely helpful

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