Publish and unpublish pages

Publish (formerly called activation) is the process of moving modified content to your live website. Every time a change is made to a page or an asset, the file must be published in order for the change to appear on the live site.

What gets published?

Every file that you create or upload to AEM must be published. This includes webpages, PDF, Word documents, JPG, PNG, etc.

You can also select assets and pages to unpublish.

Ways to publish your content

While editing a page

Publish from open page

With the page open for editing, select the “Page Information” icon in the top left corner.
Select “Publish Page.”

Your page is now published.

To Unpublish

With the page open for editing, select the “Page Information” icon in the top left corner.
Select “Unpublish Page.”
Select “Confirm.”

Sites console

Publishing from Sites

From either the Sites or DAM console:

Change view to either List or Column View. To do this, select the view icon in the far right corner.
Select the thumbnail of the page or DAM asset you want to publish. Make sure you see a checkmark over the thumbnail.
A toolbar will appear at the top. Select “Quick Publish” (alternatively, "Manage Publication").
Then select “Publish.”

A blue bar will appear at the top of the console confirming that the page and references have been published.

Unpublish

When you unpublish a file it removes it from the live website. It does not delete or remove the asset from the AEM content management system.

Unpublish from open page

With the page open for editing, select on the “Page Information” icon in the top left corner.
Select “Unpublish Page.”
Select "Confirm"

Your page or asset is now unpublished.

Unpublish from Sites

Use List or Column View.
Select the thumbnail of the page or DAM asset you want to unpublish.
Make sure you see a checkmark over the thumbnail.
A toolbar will appear at the top.
Select “Manage Publication”
Under Action, select "Unpublish"
Select the blue "Next" button
Select "Unpublish"
Select "Continue"

Publish later

Pages can be set to automatically publish or unpublish on a specific date, at a specific time.

From the sites console:

Choose a page to publish at a later date by
Select the thumbnail next to the file
Select "Manage Publication"
Under Action, choose "Publish" or "Unpublish"
Under Scheduling, choose "Later"
Select a publication date and time using the calendar icon. Time selected must be at least one hour from now.
Select the blue "Next" button
Choose the file, include Children if required
Select the blue "Next" button
Add a descriptive Workflow title
Select "Publish later"

A green message will appear at the top of the screen indicating the scheduled publish.