Temporarily disable page

[Robin S]

I have a page "go" using template "go" that I use for adding/updating pages via the API - I visit mysite.com/go and my code executes.

It's convenient to keep this page in the tree so it's there when I need it but I worry about it being accidentally accessed (by me!), so I want a way to disable the page when I'm not using it. I thought unpublishing the page would do it, but it seems that the template code executes on visiting mysite.com/go even when the "go" page is unpublished.

Is there a way to disable a page so it's template code does not execute?

I'm also interested to learn other techniques that can be used to execute API code besides putting it in a template and accessing it from the frontend.

[Wanze]

You can still visit unpublished pages when logged in as superuser, that's why your template code gets executed.

If you want to handle via this via unpublished status, simply add this on top of your template file:

if ($page->isUnpublished()) {
  throw new Wire404Exception();
}

... or if you want a message remembering yourself that you need to unpublish the page, instead of a 404, echo out something and return

Cheers

[Robin S]

Perfect, thanks!