Sitecore How-To: Disable Sitecore Publish Site

• Overview
• How-To
• Step-by-step guide

Overview

This is an article in a series of Sitecore how-to articles. These articles are meant to be quick guides to accomplish various tasks within Sitecore. The how-to articles have proven to be very helpful internally at One North https://www.onenorth.com. These articles assume working Sitecore knowledge. I just wanted to share the articles with the community. Hopefully you find them helpful.

How-To

There are various ways to publish the entire site in Sitecore and it is too often accidentally started by content editors. This is how you hide/disable all the different ways to publish the entire site.

Note: This method will hide/remove Publish Site for all users except administrators.

Step-by-step guide

Deny read access to the sitecore\Sitecore Client Users role on the following items:

1. /sitecore/system/Settings/Key Map/Ctrl-F9
2. /sitecore/content/Applications/Content Editor/Menues/Publish/Publish Site
3. /sitecore/content/Documents and settings/All users/Start menu/Left/Publish Site

Note: There are various ways you can hide these items, but using a deny read access to sitecore\Sitecore Client Users is the easiest way.