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Archiving and deleting posts

Clean up your Slab

Updated over a year ago

Posts may lose value over time, and Slab provides two tools to declutter: archiving and deleting.

Archived posts become hidden or deprioritized in most places but are still accessible and searchable, while deleted posts are permanently removed from Slab.

Archived posts

Archived posts have a gray banner at the top, which provides a warning to the reader.

While archived posts are usually hidden from the UI, it's still possible to discover them.

You can view archived posts on a topic page by using the filter in the top right-hand corner.

Within search, you can use the is:archived search facet to find archived posts.

Archiving and unarchiving a post

  1. Open the relevant post.

  2. Click the … menu in the top right-hand corner of a post page.

  3. Click Archive or Unarchive.

Archiving and unarchiving a post from the topic page

If your post is in a topic, you can also archive it from the topic page:

  1. Go to the topic page.

  2. Hover over the post you want to archive.

  3. Click the … menu to the right.

  4. Click Archive.

To unarchive a post from the topic page:

  1. Go to the topic page.

  2. Click the filter in the top right-hand corner.

  3. Click Archived in the dropdown menu.

  4. Hover over the post you want to unarchive.

  5. Click the …menu to the right.

  6. Click Unarchive.

Mass archiving

You can also mass archive posts using the Content Map:

  1. Go to the Content Map either from the sidebar or a topic page.

  2. Click Reorganize on the top right-hand corner.

  3. Select the posts you would like to archive.

  4. Hover over the selected posts and click the … menu to the right.

  5. Click Archive.

Deleting posts

🚨 Be careful: Unlike archived posts, deleted posts are permanently removed from your Slab.

To delete a post:

  1. Open the relevant post.

  2. Click the ... menu in the top right-hand corner.

  3. Click Delete

  4. A modal will appear. Review the modal before clicking Delete.

If your post is mentioned in other content, such as another post, topic, or group, the modal will display a list of backlinks that refer to your post.

Deleting a post will not automatically remove those mentions, and attempting to access a mention of a deleted post will result in an error. To maintain the accuracy of your content, we recommend either replacing or deleting the mention from the content listed before deleting the post.

Mass Deletion

Using the Content Map, you can delete multiple posts at once:

  1. Go to the Content Map either from the sidebar or a topic page.

  2. Click Reorganize on the top right-hand corner.

  3. Select the posts you would like to delete.

  4. Hover over the selected posts, and click the … menu to the right.

  5. Click Delete posts.

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