Blog listing pages published and I can't unpublish

[BHall2]

Hi all
I am not ready for my website through HubSpot to go live. Somehow my Blog Listing Page had been published and it won't unpublish. Can anyone help?

[Jnix284 · Accepted solution]

Happy to help @BHall2, this is a common issue and somewhat of a pain for new users. There are a couple of options:

1 - if you aren't building a blog now, you can delete the blog in the settings which would remove the blog listing page entirely.

Settings > Content > Blog > then click Options on the far right, then Delete blog

 2 - if you're working on building our your blog posts, you can change the URL to make it harder to find:

replacing "blog" or whatever you're using with something like "not-published-no-index"

[This is a free account shown above, so it's not possible to use a staging domain which might also be an option depending on your subscription.]

and then you'll want to update your robots.txt to prevent it from being indexed - updating robots.txt steps.

3 - setup a temporary redirect from the blog URL to your current website or blog or the root domain, URL Redirects require Pro or Enterprise subscriptions and it looks like you have Starter so this might not be an option for you, including for others who might run into a similar issue in the future.

[FNamdarian · Accepted solution]

Hi @BHall2 , like I don't find the unpublish option anywhere for the blog listing but I found couple of workaround so you can stop people to view your blog listing till you go live  with you website.
in the setting => General tab: you can change your domain to staging domain or change your Blog slug 

OR change your Access Control from public to limited option

Hope this help you.

[Jnix284]

@FNamdarian great idea to use access control as an alternative to unpublishing!

[Jnix284 · Accepted solution]

Happy to help @BHall2, this is a common issue and somewhat of a pain for new users. There are a couple of options:

1 - if you aren't building a blog now, you can delete the blog in the settings which would remove the blog listing page entirely.

Settings > Content > Blog > then click Options on the far right, then Delete blog

 2 - if you're working on building our your blog posts, you can change the URL to make it harder to find:

replacing "blog" or whatever you're using with something like "not-published-no-index"

[This is a free account shown above, so it's not possible to use a staging domain which might also be an option depending on your subscription.]

and then you'll want to update your robots.txt to prevent it from being indexed - updating robots.txt steps.

3 - setup a temporary redirect from the blog URL to your current website or blog or the root domain, URL Redirects require Pro or Enterprise subscriptions and it looks like you have Starter so this might not be an option for you, including for others who might run into a similar issue in the future.