Tip: Cut Clutter on Your Archive Page

A Substack workaround

If you’re like Siddhesh who writes Obvious Bicycle on Substack, you might want to be able to remove or hide posts from your archives.

Siddhesh does a once per month special recommendations post with links to other people’s work. But he doesn’t want them on his archive, which should be a showcase for his original work.

How to Hide Posts from Your Archive

You can unpublish posts, of course, but once that is done they are gone forever: you lose access to them and any old links kicking around on the internet will not work either.

Right now, Substack does not have a special feature that allows you to hide a post from the archive pages while still leaving it accessible to the publication owner and external viewers who have a direct link.

The good news is there is a work around. Follow these two steps to “hide” a post from your post archive.

Step 1

Open the post you want to “hide”, click Edit Post and go to Settings. The settings icon is near the bottom right of your screen (desktop).

Step 2

In the post settings, find “Displayed Publication Date” and change it to a really old date.

This will push the post way down your archive page list, while leaving it accessible to you and anyone with a direct link to the post.

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