Website was getting large so decided to split in into two in 2020. New site is fine, but old site (I now realise) still contains pages that were transferred to the new site. The unwanted pages aren’t in the ‘project’ that I presently upload from Rapidweaver 8 into that original website. They are invisible!
On my server (Siteground) there is a File Manager. Yesterday I deleted the files from this page Evelyn Waugh Harold Acton but it’s still there online.
I’m looking for a way to sort this out either using the Rapidweaver program and its FTP function or directly in the server’s files. Any suggestions on this forum? The AI assistance at Siteground puts emphasis on clearing caches, but I think I’ve done that.
I’m a content provider rather than a website developer so advice has to be clearly spelled out! Thanks for any help you can give.
Hi, Rapidweaver can’t delete files already published on a site. You have to use an FTP software or directly on your Server if your provider offers such services. I followed the link to your site and there is just the banner (up) and the left sidebar with all the links to the pages. Hope it helps you.
This morning I found an old version of the ‘project’ and by adjusting its password to the present one, I found I was able to empty the page in Rapidweaver, and that this fed through to the site on the web. Hence you telling me that the page is now empty. That is good! I thought I would remove all the ‘ghost’ pages that are still lurking on the original website. pages that have not been ‘over written’ I suppose. I thought that by changing these to ‘draft’ and uploading the old project again that might work, but it hasn’t. I wonder if you or anyone else can suggest what the issue might be here.
When you publish a page it overwrites the already published page with the same name and extension with the new content. It doesn’t erase anything. It’s a bit weird to find empty page but maybe I don’t understand well what you’re trying to do. Using « draft » feature only work with blog page, it doesn’t unpublish a page. I think you’d better delete the pages with an ftp management software if it’s what you want. It’s not really difficult.
Thanks Bruno. THis topic has been temporarily superceded by the crisisis I’ve created by dfragging my Rapidweaver files into the Trash and emptying said Trash. See another of yesterday’s topics.