Publishing, Drafts and Scheduling
Every page and post has a Status that controls whether visitors can see it. This article explains the three statuses, how scheduled publishing works, and how to take content off the website again.
The three statuses
| Status | Who sees it | Typical use |
|---|---|---|
| Draft | Nobody on the website — only editors in the admin | Work in progress |
| Published | Everyone | Finished content |
| Scheduled | Nobody yet; publishes itself at a set time | Announcements, launches, embargoed news |
You set the status in the Publishing section of the content form.
Working with drafts
New content starts as a Draft by default. Drafts:
- are invisible on the website (the address returns "page not found"),
- don't appear in archives, menus generated from pages, search or the sitemap,
- can be edited and saved as many times as you like.
When the content is ready, switch the status to Published and save.
Scheduling content
- Open the content and in the Publishing section set Status to Scheduled.
- A date-and-time field appears — pick the moment the content should go live.
- Save.
Laravix checks every minute for scheduled content whose time has come and publishes it automatically. You don't need to be logged in when it happens.
Note: The publish date is also used for sorting — archives show posts from newest to oldest by this date.
In the content list, scheduled items have an orange scheduled badge, published items a green published one.
Unpublishing content
To hide published content without deleting it, change its status back to Draft and save. The page disappears from the website immediately (visitors get "page not found"). You can re-publish it any time.
If the content has moved rather than disappeared, set up a redirect so old links keep working.
Troubleshooting
The scheduled time passed but the content isn't live. Publishing happens within a minute of the set time. If it doesn't, the server's background scheduler isn't running — contact your developer (see the developer article Deployment).
I published a page but still get "page not found". Check you're on the right address (the Preview button opens the correct one) and that you edited the right language version on a multilingual site.