# Hiding and deleting

> Enabled, disabled and trashed: taking a page off the live site without losing it, and the single action in the product that really destroys something.
>
> From the MightyBuilder documentation: https://docs.mightybuilder.ai/pages/status-and-trash

Three states, and only one action in the whole product actually deletes
anything.

## Enabled, disabled, trashed

**Enabled** is the normal state. Once the page has been published, it is on the
live site.

**Disabled** keeps the page in your dashboard and off the internet. Use it for
something half-written, or a seasonal page you want back later. A disabled page
is not in your sitemap and is not served at its address.

**Trashed** moves it into the trash tab. Also off the live site, also still
yours.

All three apply to articles, blocks and forms as well as pages.

## Status does not wait for Publish

This is the one thing in the product that does not. Everything else you change —
the words, the styling, even a page's address — sits in your drafts until you
press Publish. A status change reaches the live site **at once**.

That is deliberate, and it is the direction that matters: taking something down
is a thing people need *now*, not after a review step. Disable a page and it
leaves the internet immediately, without publishing anything else you happen to
have in progress.

It works the same way coming back. Enable a page that was published before you
disabled it and it returns straight away, **at the address it was being served
at** — not at some rename you made in the meantime and have not published. A
rename is unpublished work, and putting a page back must not publish it.

A page that has *never* been published has nothing to return to, so enabling it
does what you would expect: nothing happens until you publish.

## Trashing moves nothing

A trashed page keeps its place in the tree and keeps its address. That is what
makes restoring it work — put it back and it returns where it was, rather than
landing at the top level for you to re-file.

## The homepage is protected

It cannot be disabled or trashed while it is the homepage. Choose a different
homepage first.

## Emptying the trash is the only delete

There is no delete-this-one. The trash empties as a whole, and that is the only
action in the product that destroys anything.

Everything else — disabling, trashing, even deleting a page from the tree — is
recoverable, either by putting it back or from
[Publish history](/publishing/drafts-and-publish).

A page emptied from the trash is gone, and a restore that would have included it
says so by name rather than silently skipping it.

## Deleting a page with pages inside it

Its children are promoted to its parent rather than deleted with it. Their
addresses change to match, and the redirects follow.