How to Enable and Disable Pages on Your Website: A Complete Guide

How to Enable and Disable Pages on Your Website: A Complete Guide

By Michael Turner

January 3, 2025 at 12:33 AM

Pages visibility can be controlled to hide them from visitors and search engines. When adding a page, it's automatically enabled and visible on your active site. You can manually disable pages that are under construction or need temporary hiding.

Automatically Disabled Pages:

  • Imported content from other services
  • Pages exceeding plan limits (over 20 pages on outdated plans)

How to Enable a Page:

  1. Navigate to Pages panel
  2. Hover over target page
  3. Open page settings
  4. Set Activate Page toggle to ON
  5. Save changes

How to Disable a Page:

  1. Navigate to Pages panel
  2. Hover over target page
  3. Open page settings
  4. Turn off Enable Page option
  5. Save changes

Important Considerations:

  • Disabling collection pages affects individual items within (blogs, products)
  • Disabled store pages prevent new purchases, but items in existing carts remain purchasable
  • Portfolio subpages can't be disabled individually
  • Dropdown options cannot be deactivated directly

Alternative Page Hiding Methods:

  1. Unlinked Section: Keep pages active but hidden from navigation
  2. Password Protection: Maintain visibility while restricting access
  3. Noindex Tag: Hide from search engines while keeping page active for visitors

Collection Impact:

  • Disabled collection content may still appear in summary blocks and gallery blocks
  • To completely remove store products, disable individual items to clear them from shopping carts

Navigation Notes:

  • Disabled pages remain visible in the pages panel when logged in
  • They won't appear in public navigation
  • Search engines cannot access disabled pages
  • For dropdown menus, disable all contained pages and move to Unlinked section

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