# Draft & Publish > Source: https://docs.strapi.io/cms/features/draft-and-publish Draft & Publish separates drafts from live entries, allowing editors to stage content before release. This documentation shows how to enable it per content type and manage publish or unpublish actions. The Draft & Publish feature allows to manage drafts for your content. **Plan** Free feature **Role & permission** None **Activation** Available but disabled by default **Environment** Available in both Development & Production environment ## Configuration **Path to configure the feature:** Content Type Builder For your content types to be managed with Draft & Publish in the Content Manager, the feature must be enabled through the Content-type Builder. Draft & Publish can be configured for each content type. 1. Either edit an already created content type of your choice, or create a new content type (see [Content Type Builder](/cms/features/content-type-builder) documentation for more information). 2. Go to the **Advanced settings** tab. 3. Tick the Draft & Publish option. 4. Click the **Finish** button. ### Recording the first publication date {#recording-the-first-publication-date} When this future flag is enabled (see [features configuration](/cms/configurations/features)), Strapi automatically adds a `firstPublishedAt` attribute to all content-types that use Draft & Publish. The attribute saves the date and time when an entry is first published and never changes even if the entry is unpublished and published again. :::caution If the feature flag is disabled later, the `firstPublishedAt` attribute and its stored values are removed. ::: ## Usage With Draft & Publish enabled, the [Content Manager's edit view](/cms/features/content-manager#overview) indicates the current status of your content type's entry at the top of the interface. Your content can have 3 statuses: - Published: The content was previously published. There are no pending draft changes saved. - Modified: The content was previously published. You made some changes to the draft version and saved these changes, but the changes have not been published yet. - Draft: The content has never been published yet. When Draft & Publish is eanbled, in the [Content Manager](/cms/features/content-manager) list view, you can filter entries by status using the **Filters** button. You can also sort entries by publication status by clicking the **Status** column header in the list view. ### Working with drafts **Path:** Content Manager, edit view of your content type While editing a document, you can see 2 tabs: - The _Draft_ tab is where you can edit your content. - The _Published_ tab is a read-only tab where edition of all fields is disabled. The _Published_ tab only exists to show what is the content of fields in the published version. By default, each newly created content is a draft. Drafts can be modified and saved at will, using the **Save** button in the _Entry_ box on the right side of the interface, until they are ready to be published. Once you made changes to a draft, you have 3 possible options, all available in the _Entry_ box on the right side of the interface: - **Publish** your document (see [Publishing a draft](#publishing-a-draft)), - **Save** your draft for later retrieval, - or discard changes, by clicking on and choosing **Discard changes**. ### Publishing a draft **Path:** Content Manager, edit view of your content type To publish a draft, click on the **Publish** button in the _Entry_ box on the right side of the interface. After a draft is published: - The content of the _Draft_ and _Published_ tabs should be exactly the same (but the _Published_ tab remains read-only). - The status, below the document's title, will switch to "Published". :::caution Before publishing a draft, make sure it doesn't have relations with other non-published content, otherwise some of the content may not be available through the API. ::: When a document has both a draft and a published version available, the published version can be found in the _Published_ tab. If the document has only a draft version, you can not click on the _Published_ tab. :::tip To schedule publication (i.e. convert a draft to a published entry at a given date and time) you can include it in a release and schedule the publication of that release. Please refer to the [Releases feature](/cms/features/releases) documentation for more information. ::: ### Unpublishing content **Path:** Content Manager, edit view of your content type To unpublish a previously published content: from the _Draft_ tab, click on in the _Entry_ box on the right side of the interface and choose the **Unpublish** button. If the draft version of the document contains content different from the published version, you can decide what to do with both content when unpublishing: 1. From the _Draft_ tab, click on in the _Entry_ box on the right side of the interface and choose the **Unpublish** button. 2. In the Confirmation dialog that opens, you can choose to: - **Unpublish and keep last draft**, so that all the content you currently have in the _Draft_ tab is preserved, but the all the content from the _Published_ tab is definitely gone - **Unpublish and replace last draft** to discard any existing content in the _Draft_ tab and replace it with the content of all fields from the _Published_ tab 3. Click **Confirm**. The desired changes will be applied to both the _Draft_ and _Published_ tabs and the new status of the entry will also be reflected below the entry title. ### Bulk actions **Path:** Content Manager, list view of your content type Selecting multiple entries from the [Content Manager's list view](/cms/features/content-manager#overview) will display additional buttons to publish or unpublish several entries simultaneously. This is what is called "bulk publishing/unpublishing". :::caution If the [Internationalization feature](/cms/features/internationalization) is installed, the bulk publish/unpublish actions only apply to the currently selected locale. ::: #### Bulk publishing drafts To publish several entries at the same time: 1. From the list view of the Content Manager, select your entries to publish by ticking the box on the left side of the entries' record. 2. Click on the **Publish** button located above the header of the table. 3. In the _Publish entries_ dialog, check the list of selected entries and their status: - Ready to publish: the entry can be published - "[field name] is required", "[field name] is too short" or "[field name] is too long": the entry cannot be published because of the issue stated in the red warning message. 4. (optional) If some of your entries have a status, click the edit buttons to fix the issues until all entries have the Ready to publish status. Note that you will have to click on the **Refresh** button to update the _Publish entries_ dialog as you fix the various entries issues. 5. Click the **Publish** button. 6. In the confirmation dialog box, confirm your choice by clicking again on the **Publish** button. #### Bulk unpublishing content To unpublish several entries at the same time: 1. From the list view of the Content Manager, select your entries to unpublish by ticking the box on the left side of the entries' record. 2. Click on the **Unpublish** button located above the header of the table. 3. In the confirmation dialog box, confirm your choice by clicking again on the **Unpublish** button. ### Usage with APIs Draft or published content can be requested, created, updated, and deleted using the `status` parameter through the various front-end APIs accessible from [Strapi's Content API](/cms/api/content-api): - [REST API](/cms/api/rest/status): Learn how to use the status parameter with the REST API. - [GraphQL API](/cms/api/graphql#status): Learn how to use the status parameter with GraphQL API. On the back-end server of Strapi, the Document Service API can also be used to interact with localized content: - [Document Service API](/cms/api/document-service/status): Learn how to use the status parameter with the Document Service API.