How To Delete and Restore Pages
When you delete a Confluence page, we'll move it to the space's trash. It's not permanently deleted, and can be restored by a space admin, until the page is permanently is permanently deleted from the trash.
Don't see a delete option? Delete only appears if you are allowed to delete the page. Both space permissions and page restrictions can prevent you from deleting.
Delete a single page
When you delete a page in Confluence, you're deleting its page history too. If you only want to delete a specific version of a page, take a look at the instructions below for deleting a specific version.
To delete a page:
- Go to the page and choose
> Delete. - We'll warn you of any issues, such as incoming links that will break. Choose Delete to proceed.
The page will be sent to the trash, where it can be restored by a space admin.
Any child pages (including any restricted pages that you are not allowed to see) will move up to the nearest parent page.
Delete a page hierarchy
When deleting a page that has child pages you have the option to delete the entire page hierarchy.
To delete a page hierarchy:
- Navigate to the parent page and choose > Delete.
- Choose Also delete child pages then hit Next.
- We'll warn you of any issues, such as incoming links that will break. Choose Delete to proceed.
The pages will be sent to the trash, where they can be restored by be restored by a space admin.
Any pages that are restricted (that you are not allowed to see or delete) will not be deleted and will move up to the nearest parent page.
Delete a page version
Space admins can delete specific versions from the page history. This is useful if you need to prevent older versions of a page being restored in future. Deleting a page version is permanent and cannot be undone.
To delete a specific version of a page:
Go to the page and choose
> Page History- Choose Delete next to the version you want to delete.
Once you've deleted a version, the other versions are re-numbered where necessary.
Restore deleted pages
If you're a space admin you can restore deleted pages back into a space. This is useful if someone accidentally deletes a page and needs to get it back.
To restore a deleted page:
- Go to the space and choose Space tools > Content Tools from the bottom of the sidebar
- Choose Trash.
- Choose > Restore next to the page you wish to restore.
Pages are restored to the root of the space. Head to Space Tools > Reorder Pages to drag your restored page back into the page hierarchy.
Empty the trash or permanently delete a page
If you're a space admin you can permanently delete a page (and all its attached files) by purging it from the trash. Once purged, the page and all its versions and attached files will be gone for good.
To purge deleted pages:
- Go to the space and choose Space tools > Content Tools from the bottom of the sidebar
- Choose Trash.
- Choose > Purge next to a specific page or you can Purge all to completley empty the trash.
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Once you decide on a blank page or blueprint, you'll be taken straight into the Confluence editor. The editor is where you'll name or rename your page, add the content, and format it to look great. When you've added some content, choose Preview to take a peek at what your finished page will look like, and Publish when you're ready to make it appear in the space.
After you save you'll see the page in 'view' mode. You can re-enter the editor any time by choosing Edit or pressing E on your keyboard.
Edit together
Need input from your team members? Multiple people can edit your page at the same time.
If you've not yet published the page, all you need to do is share the URL to invite others to edit with you (they need the appropriate Confluence and space permissions of course).
See Collaborative editing for all the ins and outs.
Collaborate or restrict
Once you've created a page, you can decide if you want to keep it private, using restrictions, or collaborate on it with others using @mentions, sharing, and comments.
Organize and move
You can also organize pages in a hierarchy, with child and/or parent pages for closely related content. When you navigate to a Confluence page and choose the Create button in the header, the page you're creating will by default be a child of the page you're viewing. Have as many child pages and levels in the hierarchy as you need to, and move pages if you want to change their location.
If you want to view all pages in a Confluence space, choose Pages in the sidebar.
Each time you create a page, you're creating it in a space. Spaces are containers used to contain pages with related content, so you can set them up for each team in your organization, for projects, a combination of both, or for any reason you want to group pages together. See Spaces for more information.
Other page actions
- Copy a page and its child pages
- Delete a page or remove a specific version of a page
- Monitor page updates and other activity through page notifications
- View page history, and manage and compare versions of a page
- Search page content, including attachments
- Export pages to Word, PDF, HTML or XML
- Like a page
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If you rename a page, Confluence will automatically update all relative links to the page, except in some macros. Links from external sites will be broken, unless they use the permanent URL. See Working with Links for more information.
You may experience problems saving extremely large pages. Confluence can accept approximately 5mb of content (not including attached files) which is roughly equivalent to 800,000 words. If you do experience errors that indicate the page is too large to save, you should break up the page into several smaller pages.