A true unpublish option or the ability to schedule the end of expiration
A true unpublish option would be a huge asset to the CMS. If that's not possible (or at least not possible soon, then the ability to schedule an end to expiration should work.
It might sound like a small thing, but being able to unpublish and then schedule for republishing can be the difference between a couple of clicks and rebuilding an entire page (or pages, if you're very unlucky. In the current system, if something needs to be pulled off the site you have to expire it. But if you want to put it back up at a specific time (which can be very important for press releases, campaigns, etc then you have no choice but to rebuild the whole thing; you can't just make a copy of an expired page because it will still register as previously published, leaving you exactly where you were with the original.
Emily Lapayowker
shared this idea
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Brandon Joerges
commented
Our team would also greatly appreciate this being a simple process instead of needing workarounds!
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Heather McDaniel
commented
this would be very helpful for pages that we'd like to quickly unpublish but save to reuse at a later date.
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jacob.pretorius
commented
Currently the way to "Unpublish" (as in expire content in the CMS isn't very intuitive for people who don't have lots of Optimizely CMS experience. Especially editors coming from other platforms.
I've built a CMS 12 plugin that solves this and puts the "Unpublish" functionality right there in the "Publish" menu which I've gotten some good feedback on asking for it in the platform itself so here we are.
More details in my blogpost https://world.optimizely.com/blogs/jacob-pretorius/dates/2022/4/unpublish-content-the-intuitive-way/