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title: Deleting pages
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

On this page you can learn about:

If you need to delete multiple pages at once, see [Multiple page operations](https://docs.kentico.com/k12sp/managing-website-content/working-with-pages/multiple-page-operations.md).

## Deleting pages in the Pages application

1. Open the **Pages** application.
2. Click on the page that you want to delete.
3. Click **Delete** (). A **Delete page** dialog opens.
4. Specify the deletion options:
   - **Destroy page and its history (page cannot be restored)** – select the check box if you want to make sure the page cannot be [restored later](#restoring-deleted-pages). Note that [linked pages](https://docs.kentico.com/k12sp/managing-website-content/working-with-pages/copying-and-moving-pages-creating-linked-pages.md) are never moved to the recycle bin and you cannot [restore](#restoring-deleted-pages) them once they are deleted.
   - **Redirect old URLs to another page** – ensures that when users visit a link to the deleted page, the system redirects them to a different page instead. Note that redirection for URLs of deleted pages is only available for [Portal Engine](https://docs.kentico.com/k12sp/developing-websites/portal-engine-development-overview.md) sites.

     - **Page** –specify which page users see instead of the one you delete.
     - **Redirect all page aliases** – select the check box to make the website use the redirection page for all available URLs of the deleted page.
     - **Redirect all child pages** – select the check box to use the redirection page for all child page.

     ![Deleting pages](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k12sp/deleting-pages/deleting_pages.png)
5. Confirm by clicking **Delete**.

The system deletes the page. If you specified that you do not want the system to _destroy page and its history_, you can [restore](#restoring-deleted-pages) the page at any time.

## Deleting multiple pages at once

If you need to delete multiple pages at once, see [Multiple page operations](https://docs.kentico.com/k12sp/managing-website-content/working-with-pages/multiple-page-operations.md).

## Restoring deleted pages

You can restore pages (as well as objects) that you deleted. An exception are pages that were destroyed instead of just deleted.

To restore deleted pages:

1. Open the **Recycle bin** application on the **Pages** tab.
2. (Optional) Specify the pages that you want to restore using the filter above the list of deleted pages.

   ![Filtering pages](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k12sp/deleting-pages/filtering_pages.png)
3. (Optional) Use the **View** button next to the pages in the **Bin** to view their details before restoring them.
4. Click the **Restore**  button to undo the deletion of a page.

   > **Tip:** To restore multiple pages at once, select the checkboxes next to these pages. Then use the drop-down list under the selected pages to specify the **Restore** action and click **OK**.

   ![Selecting pages](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k12sp/deleting-pages/selecting_pages.png)
5. A dialog appears, confirm by clicking **OK**.

The system restores the deleted pages back at their original location.

## Emptying the page recycle bin

You can empty the page recycle bin to remove the deleted pages out of the system permanently.

To empty the page recycle bin:

1. Open the **Recycle bin** application on the **Pages** tab.
2. (Optional) If you want to delete specific pages only, use the filter above the list of deleted pages.

   ![Filtering pages](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k12sp/deleting-pages/filtering_pages.png)
3. (Optional) Use the **View** button next to the pages in the **Bin** to view their details before removing them from the system permanently.
4. (Optional) Select the pages that you want to delete using the check box next to the pages.
5. Use the drop-down list under the listed pages to specify whether you want to remove **Selected pages** or **All pages**.
6. Select the **Destroy permanently** option in the second drop-down list under the listed pages.

   > **Tip:** To remove a single page from the system, use the **Destroy permanently**  button next to a page.

   ![Destroying pages](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k12sp/deleting-pages/destroying_pages.png)
7. Click **OK**.

The system removes the pages permanently.