Publish and unpublish content

Every piece of content in Drupal is either 'published' or 'unpublished'. Published content is visible to the world at large; unpublished content is not.

This allows content editors to remove content from public view without deleting it.

A node's author can see their own unpublished content, and edit it. The site administrator (user/1) and users with the "administer nodes" permission can also see and edit unpublished content. This allows for basic site moderation.

By default, all new content is published when it is created. This can be changed for each content type.

All site content can be hidden by removing the 'access content' permission from anonymous users.