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My Article Isn't Showing on the Public Site

By Administrator · Jul 28, 2026 · 7 views

You saved an article, but it's not showing up where you expected. Work through this checklist:

  1. Check the Status. Open the article in the admin Articles list — if Status shows "Draft", that's the reason. Switch it to "Published" and save.
  2. Check whether its category or subcategory is hidden. If Status already shows "Published" but a small "Internal" tag appears next to it, its subcategory or category is set to "Hide from public site" — open that subcategory or category and untick the box if you want this article public. See "Creating and Managing Categories" for how this setting works.
  3. Check the subcategory and category. Make sure you're actually looking in the right place on the public site — an article only appears under the one subcategory it's assigned to.
  4. Give the page a refresh. Listings and search reflect the database directly, so a published article should appear immediately — if it still doesn't after a refresh, double-check the Status again.
  5. Check for typos in the title if you're searching for it by name and not finding it — search matches the title, excerpt, and body text.

If none of these explain it, ask an administrator to check the Activity Logs (Monitoring section) for a record of the article being saved.