Archive and Delete Documents

In Prismic, there are two methods for demoting content: archiving and deleting.

Archiving (also called “unpublishing”) will remove a document from your API and move it to the “Archive” tab of the Page Builder. In unpublished documents, the menu bar is grey.

Deleting will completely remove the document from your repository. Deletion is permanent and irreversible.

Archive a document

To archive a document, you can either click the Unpublish purple button in the top-right corner of the editor, or click the three dots button next to it and select Archive this document. The document will be sent to the “Archive” tab and removed from the Prismic API.

Unarchive a document

To unarchive a document, first go to the “Archive” tab, then click on the document you wish to unarchive. Modify it and click Save. The option to publish it will appear.

Move a document from “Archive” to “Work”

It is possible to move a document to the “Work” tab as a draft without publishing it.

To do so, first find the document in the “Archive” tab. Open the document’s history pane by clicking on View history in the top-left corner underneath the document’s title. Select the most recent version, and click Restore.

The document will be restored as a draft in the “Work” tab.

Delete a document

You can only delete a document that is already archived.

To delete a document, go to the “Archive” tab. Select the document(s) you wish to delete in the list, and click the trash can icon in the top-right corner.

The document(s) will be removed from your repository.