# Archiving content

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In GovCMS sites (as with most websites), content administrators will, from time to time need to **remove** content from their site. There are many cases in which conent may need to be removed, including *Events* that have passed, *Blog articles* or *News & Media* that no longer need to be highlighted on a site, expired job listings and so on.

Archiving content in GovCMS simply **unpublishes** the content. It does not delete the content. As such you can restore the content if needed.

The outcome of archiving any content is that it is **no longer visible to site visitors**. Should a site visitor navigate directly to the page that was previously available, they would receive an 'Access denied' message, as demonstrated in the next exercise.


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