Hidden & offline pages

Sometimes when creating content for your site, you might like to add it without anyone seeing. This is often called working in draft mode.

With PagePlay creating drafts of your content is easy. Using the Sitemap, you can make pages either 'Hidden from nav' or 'Offline'. When you are ready for the page to be fully live for everyone to see you can make it 'Online'.

These can be viewed if you have the exact address of the page, which means you can link to it from another page, email or instant message. The key difference is that the page does not appear in the site's navigation. Without knowing the link for the page, a visitor may not realise it exists or know how to get to it.

An Offline page can only be viewed when you are logged in to make changes to the site. The page does not appear in navigation and even if you have a link to the page, you will not be able to access it if you are logged out.

You might be preparing some content which you only want to be displayed at a certain time - like a Christmas promotion perhaps.

Creating hidden or draft content. It's as easy as PagePlay.

* Conditions. Offline and hidden pages are only accesible through the new style site map. To have the new style sitemap, you need to be subscribed for the Subpages bolt-on. So how can I tell if I have subpages?