Control what your customers can read on your help centre. Publish a draft when it is ready to go live, or unpublish an outdated article without losing your work.

## Prerequisites

- A SupportPages project with at least one article
- The article has finished generating and is assigned to a section

## Steps

### Step 1: Open Articles

In your project workspace, click **Articles** in the sidebar under **Help Centre**.

### Step 2: Select an article

In **Sections & Articles**, click the article you want to update. Its content opens on the right.

### Step 3: Check the article status

Look below the title for the status label. **Draft** means the article is not visible to customers yet. **Published** means it is live on your help centre.

### Step 4: Publish a draft

When the status shows **Draft**, click **Publish** in the toolbar. The article goes live on your help centre right away.

### Step 5: Unpublish a live article

When the status shows **Published**, click **Unpublish** in the toolbar. The article is taken offline but stays in your workspace so you can edit and publish it again later.

![Unpublish a live article](https://help.supportpages.io/rails/active_storage/blobs/proxy/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NDczOSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--8c26b9cdc189a4b6ea8c2e2d8cdfd69e6b5f80b6/step_4.png)

## Tips

- Use **View** on a published article to open the live help-centre page in a new tab.
- Unpublishing does not delete the article — your edits are saved as a draft.

## Summary

Use **Publish** and **Unpublish** on the **Articles** page to control what appears on your help centre. You can bring an unpublished article back anytime without starting over.