Unpublish an Entry

You can remove an entry from your web or mobile property by unpublishing it.

Additional Resource: To understand how the process of publishing works, make sure you refer our guide on how to Publish Entries.

To unpublish an entry, log in to your Contentstack account and perform the following steps:

1. Go to your stack and click on the “Entries” icon on the left navigation panel or press “E” (for both Windows OS and Mac OS users) to access entries.
2. Locate your entry, click on the respective three ellipses under the Actions column (on the extreme right side), and select Unpublish. Or, you can click on the checkbox beside the entry on the list page and click on the Unpublish button that appears on the top.
   In case you are already in the entry that you want to unpublish, click on the Unpublish button located at the bottom of the page.
3. Under Select Environment(s) and Select Language(s), select the environment(s) and the locale(s) from which you want to unpublish the entry.
   

   Note: At any time, you can select only 50 environments and 50 languages to unpublish a single entry.

4. Under Unpublish, you have two sub-options: Now (to unpublish immediately) and Later (to unpublish at a later date/time that you provide). 
   When you select Later, a group of options appears asking you to select the Date and Time (along with the Time-Zone) of publishing.

   Note: When scheduling an entry unpublish, the unpublishing date cannot extend beyond 12 months.

   If you select a time zone that follows daylight saving time (DST), you will see a help text at the bottom of the dialog that highlights the effective publishing date, time, and timezone. This text specifies that you can unpublish the content at the specified time with DST adjustments.
   

   Note: The DST time difference is one hour.

5. Confirm your settings by clicking Send.

Note: After unpublishing an entry, it will cease to display on your web/mobile property, but this action will not delete the entry from your Contentstack’s repository.

Additional Resource: You can also refer our documentation on how to Unpublish Assets where we've covered the process in detail.

Unpublish Referred Entries

When unpublishing an entry, if it is referred in other entry(ies), an alert message will be displayed that will list out all the entries where this entry has been referred.

You can choose to unpublish the entry as per your requirement.

API References

You can also use the Unpublish an Entry API Request to perform the task.