Autopilot & Publishing
How to pull a live article back off your site, and how to bring it back later if you change your mind.
Sometimes an article that already went live turns out to be wrong for your site after all. Take this down reverts it without losing the work behind it.
Taking an article down reverts the live item on your connected site back to a draft (on Webflow, this uses the same mechanism as unpublishing an item there directly). The content stays intact in your CMS and in HarperFlow; only its public visibility changes. It's the recoverable alternative to deleting something outright.
People typically reach for this after spotting a factual mistake once an article is already live, after a product change makes something outdated, or simply because a piece reads differently once it's actually on the site than it did in review.
If an article is already off your site, for instance because you unpublished it directly in your CMS, clicking Take this down in HarperFlow simply confirms that state rather than failing or erroring.
You don't have to use HarperFlow to remove an article. HarperFlow regularly checks the articles it published to Webflow and WordPress against your site. If one has been deleted there, or is no longer published (for example, set back to draft, archived, made private, or moved to the trash), and its page no longer loads at its address, HarperFlow checks again at least 24 hours later before it changes anything, so a quick edit or a short outage on your site never moves an article.
If the article is still missing on that second check, HarperFlow moves it to Archived and stops counting it as published: it no longer appears on your Published tab or in your stats, and new articles stop linking to it.
If half or more of a site’s articles disappear at once, HarperFlow pauses archiving for that site until our support team confirms the change.
HarperFlow never changes anything on your site during these checks, and there's no email about them: you made the change yourself.
Shopify articles aren’t checked yet: if you delete or unpublish one in Shopify, it stays under Published in HarperFlow. If you delete a whole collection, site or blog, HarperFlow can’t confirm each article is gone, so those articles stay listed as published too.
A taken-down article shows a Restore option. Restoring puts the same article straight back onto your site, republished right away. Because it goes live immediately, only owners and admins can restore a taken-down article; see Article states.
Taking an article down, or restoring one afterward, doesn't touch your article quota in either direction. That was already spent the moment the article was first written, so pulling it offline temporarily doesn't refund it, and bringing it back doesn't spend a new one.
Taking articles down, and restoring them afterward, is limited to your organization's owners and admins.
Tip: Use Take this down for anything you need off your site right away and might want back later. It's built to be reversible, so there's little downside to using it as soon as you spot a problem.
