How to revert publish page back to unpublished (draft) in Confluence

[David Leal]

I have published a page by accident that we need to still work on the draft, but I don't know how to rollback this action so we can continue working in the draft that will be published once we finished all changes.

[Diego · Accepted solution]

Hello there David!

Currently, there is no such feature in Confluence. What we can do to achieve a similar result is:

1. Access the affected page
2. Enter edit mode
3. Copy all the page content
4. Exit edit mode
5. Create a new page
6. Paste the content
7. Do not publish the page
8. Go back to the affected page
9. Delete it
10. Proceed to keep working with the newly created page

Let us know if this workaround works for you David!

[David Leal]

Thanks, @Diego that Jira would provide a solution for this, but in the meantime this is a good workaround. Thanks. David

[Pat Hauser]

you guys have to add this feature - please please please

[Gerard Veneman]

I agree, it surprises me it's not there! The workaround marked as solution is just that... a work-around this issue. Please address this. It shouldn't be that hard, right?

[Ruby Ho]

I think about how WordPress can do this, and find it hard to believe that we can't do this in confluence. 

[AG]

Seems that in April '23, we're still facing this problem.

[Monika Niebelska]

Seems that in July '20, we're still facing this problem. 

[Dr. Thomas G. Dorsch]

Hello,

To me, it's not clear what "publish" a Space with Pages exactly means.

1) To team members only?

2) To anyone who has an account?

3) To a domain in the www, visible for everyone?

I would think only (1) is true, for the sake of confidentiality.

Maybe I missed this in the documentation, if so, please respond with a link.

Thanks! Thomas

[Rachana Killekar]

Yes, we can rollback to the previous version.

Just click on 3 dots present in the upper right hand corner of the page -> Click on Page History Option -> Click on Restore link present for previous version.

Your changes will be undone.

[jtuzman]

This restores to an older published version. It does not "unpublish" a document and restore its "draft" status.