Publication and visibility
Understand the separate decisions behind a visible page.
A page can be saved without being public. These controls answer different questions:
- Saved: are the changes stored?
- Published: is the page marked for publication?
- Publication period: is it within its allowed start and end times?
- Access: may this visitor see it?
- Menu or collection membership: where is it listed?
- Search indexing: may a search engine include it in results?
A visitor normally needs publication, timing, and access to agree. Editors may have permission to view content that visitors cannot.
A menu entry does not grant access, and a no-index request does not make a page private. Test the public URL with the intended audience whenever those distinctions matter.