The best way to deprecate Confluence pages
Asked by Christopher Zeuch:

Hello!  

I was just wondering if anyone has any suggestions on the best way to deprecate a page in Confluence.

My current process:

* Each Space has either a **Deprecated Pages** or **Archive** page
* The page contains the *Red Warning* macro in its own section with some explanatory text
* The page also contains a section with the *Children Display* macro

Before a page is moved to the **Deprecated Pages / Archive** page I:

* Insert a *Red Warning* macro with some explanatory text
* Insert the *Yellow Note* macro with the link to the more up-to-date page

![Screen Shot 2018-05-10 at 6.24.35 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/21736i51A3F05310863DC6/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2018-05-10 at 6.24.35 PM.png")

Then I move the page.

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While this works quite well in terms of deprecating pages ++going forward++ , my challenge is the hundreds of pages that have been previously deprecated by simply moving the page to the **Deprecated Pages / Archive** page.

I could take the time to do the above to every single on of those pages but I feel that would not be an efficient use of my time.  

Does anyone have any suggestions?


Answers:
author: Aron Gombas _Midori_
body: [@Walter Heck](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4978505) [@Walter](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4843278)Just recently, Better Content Archiving for Confluence Cloud became generally available!

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author: Levente Szabo _Midori_
body: [@Walter Heck](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4978505)

Hi Walter!

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author: Walter Heck
body: Unfortunately this doesn't work for Confluence Cloud :(


author: Matt Skare
body: Hi Christopher, wondering what plugins you are using to highlight the user mention and date?

Thanks


author: Stephan Kuempel
body: Hi Christopher,

we recently released a plugin called "Outdated for Confluence" which may accomplish what you are looking for.

With this plugin, the users can mark pages as outdated with an additional button.

A outdated review table macro then lets you keep track and review the outdated pages.

For more info see:

[https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1219467/outdated-for-confluence?hosting=server\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1219467/outdated-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview)

[https://emapps.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EAD/overview](https://emapps.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EAD/overview%C2%A0)


author: Christopher Zeuch
body: Awesome thanks [@Aron Gombas _Midori_](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/502447)  

I will definitely check it out!


author: Aron Gombas _Midori_
body: Instead of doing this manually, you can use the [Archiving Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/123/archiving-plugin-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview) that automates tracking outdated / irrelevant pages and moving those to archive pages.

Learn more [here](http://www.midori-global.com/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/).


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