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As I'm redoing a site, there are pages that should no longer be active. However, the board of directors wants to keep that information for future needs.
I changed the pages to draft. But that just creates a 404.
How can I keep the pages, not have them visible to the public, visible to admins, and not have a 404?
>How can I keep the pages, not have them visible to the public, visible to admins, and not have a 404?
The way you did it, and for avoiding 404 – create redirections to other pages and that’s it:
[https://themeisle.com/blog/wordpress-redirections/](https://themeisle.com/blog/wordpress-redirections/)
[https://themeisle.com/blog/301-redirect-wordpress/](https://themeisle.com/blog/301-redirect-wordpress/)
[https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/best-wordpress-redirect-plugins-compared/](https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/best-wordpress-redirect-plugins-compared/)
This did not do the trick? [https://wordpress.org/plugins/archived-post-status/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/archived-post-status/)
Another idea, download the database, give the SQL to the board, and then delete the content from the live site. If they really want the data, they can pay you or a DBA to look through the DB.