Unpublish items in CMS - Sitecore PowerShell script

 If you want to delete or unpublish all items under a root item using PowerShell script then this is the post you are looking for. This script disables the 'publishable' option of an item in Sitecore.

Unpublishing an item

Every item has a publishable option. Upon disabling and publishing to the web, the item will be removed from the web database. If there are multiple items which are needed to be deleted, doing it manually will never be a good option. Here is the script which disables the publishing option. The publishable option is disabled by setting the value in the field Never Publish under the section Publishing. This can be viewed by checking the field raw values mode.

Here, setting the $item.Fields["__Never publish"].Value to 1 disables the publishable option.

Sitecore Powershell script to unpublish items by setting off 'publishable' option:

$sourcePath = "/sitecore/content/Site1/Home"

function RunScript

{

    $items = Get-ChildItem -Path $sourcePath -Recurse

    $rootItem = Get-Item -Path $sourcePath

    $items = $items + $rootItem

    foreach ($item in $items)

    {

        if($item.Fields["__Never publish"].Value -ne 1)

        {

            $item.Editing.BeginEdit();

            $item.Fields["__Never publish"].Value = "1";

            $item.Editing.EndEdit();

            Publish-Item $item -Target "web" -PublishMode SingleItem 

            Write-Host "option:" $item.Fields["__Never publish"].Value

        }

    }

}

$items = RunScript