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# Publish Content Items in Marketing Cloud Next

When you create a content item to your content workspace, you can’t use it in messages until you publish it.

## Publish a Piece of Content

To publish content, issue a POST request to the `/services/data/{apiVersion}/connect/cms/contents/publish` endpoint. The body of the request must contain an array called `contentIds`. Each item in the array is the content ID (`managedContentId`) of a content item that you want to publish.

```json
POST /services/data/{apiVersion}/connect/cms/contents/publish HTTP/1.1
Host: {subdomain}.my.salesforce.com
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_BEARER_TOKEN

{
    "description": "Content for new email campaign",
    "contentIds": ["20Y1Q0000000XXyUAM"]
}
```

If the request is successful, the response includes a publish date and deployment ID.

```json
{
    "deploymentId": "0jk1Q000000xXTgQAM",
    "description": "Content for new email campaign",
    "publishDate": "2024-01-22T21:38:53.000Z"
}
```

## Unpublish Content

To revert a published content item back to draft status, issue a POST request to the `/services/data/{apiVersion}/connect/cms/contents/unpublish` endpoint.

```json
POST /services/data/{apiVersion}/connect/cms/contents/unpublish HTTP/1.1
Host: {subdomain}.my.salesforce.com
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_BEARER_TOKEN

{
  "description": "Unpublish an email via the API",
  "contentIds": ["20YQZ0000007G3F2AU"]
}
```

You can unpublish content that has a status of Published. Unpublishing removes the content from active use. The content item itself isn’t deleted, and you can republish it later.

## See Also

- [Create and Manage Emails in Marketing Cloud](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/marketing/marketing-cloud-growth/guide/mc-manage-content-emails.md)
- API Reference: [Publish CMS Content](/docs/marketing/marketing-cloud-growth/references/mc-next-cms-resources?meta=publishContent)
- API Reference: [Unpublish CMS Content](/docs/marketing/marketing-cloud-growth/references/mc-next-cms-resources?meta=unpublishContent)