The state of a node that can be viewed by visitors to the website. To easily hide nodes from the public (i.e. anonymous role), make the node unpublished by unchecking “Published” in the node add/edit form.

A node that is published is visible to all site visitors with the 'view site content' permission. An 'unpublished' node, depending on your exact permissions configuration, is generally only visible to site administrators and its author. Example: When preparing content, an author may leave it unpublished until it has been finishe [..]

Publication, under the Copyright Act, is the distribution of copies of a copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending. The offering to distribute copies to a group of persons for purposes of further distribution, public performance, or public display also constitutes publication. A public pe [..]

(adj) prepared and printed for distribution and sale(adj) formally made public

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