How to delete a page in Confluence quickly and easily

One of the most common questions users ask is how to delete a page in Confluence. While straightforward in theory, there are several things to bear in mind with this task.

If you have permission, it's easy to delete a Confluence page. Simply:

1. Click the three dots (… ) at the top right of the page.

2. Click Delete.

If you can't delete a page, this is probably because of your space permission settings. By default, Confluence space permissions restrict end users from deleting pages. If you don't see the Delete option in your dropdown menu, don't worry! Simply ask your Confluence admin to change the permissions settings, and then you should be able to delete pages quickly.

Here's how to delete a page in Confluence Cloud:

See Atlassian's Confluence support for more instructions on deleting page hierarchies and unpublished pages.

If you want to save time and delete pages, comments and attachments in bulk, ScriptRunner for Confluence can help. We recommend restricting access to pages while you're moving content around to ensure that no page edits or moves get missed in the shuffle. You can use scripts like Bulk Delete Attachments, Bulk Delete Comments and Delete Page Tree to perform more thorough clean-ups.

You might be done with a page for now, but you’re not ready to say goodbye to it forever. Maybe it just needs updating, or simply isn’t needed right now but might be in the future.

While deleting pages in Confluence doesn't automatically make them unrecoverable, there's still a chance that a space admin could choose to purge the entire contents of the trash, meaning all the content in it is gone for good.

So if you want to remove a page from your Space but still make sure that it sticks around, you’ll want to archive your Confluence page. Not sure how? We’ve got you. Read our blog to find out how to archive a Confluence page.