Unpublished pages don't get deleted

[torleif]

If someone unpublishes a page, it does not get deleted and thus it's possible to still view it.

[torleif]

Also if someone changes a page type from a statically cached type to a non statically cached type, the file remains.

[svandragt]

I suppose this is by design. The docs say:

Note that the path directory will be populated with the new exported files. This script does not empty the directory first so you may which to remove the folder (rm -rf cache && sake dev/tasks/StaticExporterTask path=cache)

[purplespider]

Has anyone come up with a workaround for this?

I've just had a client wondering why pages they deleted are still showing in Google!

[wernerkrauss]

@purplespider you can write a hook onAfterDelete() or onAfterUnpublish() and delete the file?

Alternatively a cron task to delete the files every night and create them again? Afaik RebuildStaticCacheTask deletes the old files, at least when domainbased caching is on.

[dhensby]

static publish queue handles this a lot better for SS4 sites now