How to create an orphan page in confluence?
Asked by sidhartha:

Please help me in creating an orphan page


Answers:
author: Hermance NDounga
body: Create a page, Go to Space Tools -\> Reorder Pages , move the page on the top of the home page (outside of the tree) .

comments: author: Chip Blakely
body: It does place the page outside of the tree and it no longer appears in the Page Tree on the left, but the page does not show up under the Space Tools\>Reorder Pages\>Orphaned Pages tab.


author: Phil
body: This worked for me. Thanks a lot.


author: Wayne Wong
body: Hi there,

An orphaned page is a page without any incoming links. This means that, unless you know that the page exists, you are not likely to come across it in the space during the natural course of navigation.

When you are working in a large space with a number of pages, it is difficult to keep track of all of them. An orphaned page may be redundant or may need to be referred to from another page. Confluence allows you to view all the orphaned pages in a space so you can tidy up the space by either deleting pages or reorganising them.

**To create an Orphaned page:**

1. Create a parent page.
2. Create a child page under the parent page.
3. Delete the parent page.
4. The child page will be **Orphaned.**

**To view the orphaned pages in a space:**

1. Go to the space and choose **Space tools** \> **Content Tools** on the sidebar.
2. Choose **Orphaned Pages**.

If your space uses the Documentation theme:

1. Choose **Browse** \> **Space Operations**at the top of the screen.
2. Choose **Orphaned Pages** in the space operations options.

You can do the following:

* Delete an orphaned page by choosing the 'trash can' icon next to the page name.
* Edit a page by choosing the 'pencil' icon next to the page name.
* Give an orphaned page a parent --- see [Moving a Page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Moving+a+Page).

Hope this help.

Do let me know if you have other question.  

Thank you.

Regards

Wayne Wong

comments: author: Phil
body: Hey Wayne, thanks for your detailed answer, however, your instruction to create an orphaned page did not work for me. In my case the child page is parented by the home page after I delete its previous parent page and it does not appear in the Orphaned Pages tab.


author: RPT Admin
body: My mileage varies.

I create a page called "deleteme", and then I create the child page, which I want to be discoverable via search only. i.e. it shouldn't appear in the sidebar.

I delete the deleteme page. The expected behaviour, according to the first answer, is that my child page is orphaned. The observed behaviour is that my child page is adopted by deleteme's parent, so it appears in the sidebar.

My workflow differs.

Create a page in another space. Move the page to the correct space without specifying a parent page. Result: an orphan page.


author: Ronald Fabricante
body: This is not an answer but basically a question. I work with the blueprint templates a lot. Is there a way for me to create a page using the blueprint template and have it save as an orphan so that I am not seeing it added as a child page? For instance, I want to create a new product requirement page, but I do not want to see it added as a child page each time. Thank you!

comments: author: Hermance NDounga
body: No, it won't be possible because you create pages \*under\* another page. From a blueprint, the template or via the create button you cannot create an orphean page \*by default\*.


author: Tony Brown
body: I was able to create an orphaned page by doing the following:

1. Create the page
2. Delete the page
3. Go to Space Tools -\> Reorder Pages
4. Go to the Trash Tab and select Restore next to your deleted page

For me this successfully restored the page and listed it in the 'orphaned pages' tab. Good luck!

comments: author: Hermance NDounga
body: you don't need to delete the page :smile: