Deleting a Pages site

Who can use this feature?

People with admin or maintainer permissions for a repository can delete a Pages site.

Pages is available in public repositories with Free and Free for organizations, and in public and private repositories with Pro, Team, Enterprise Cloud, and Enterprise Server. For more information, see ’s plans.

Pages now uses Actions to execute the Jekyll build. When using a branch as the source of your build, Actions must be enabled in your repository if you want to use the built-in Jekyll workflow. Alternatively, if Actions is unavailable or disabled, adding a .nojekyll file to the root of your source branch will bypass the Jekyll build process and deploy the content directly. For more information on enabling Actions, see Managing Actions settings for a repository.

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You can delete your site in two ways:

If you want to remove the current deployment of your site but do not want to delete the site, you can unpublish your site. For more information, see Unpublishing a Pages site.

  1. On , navigate to your site's repository.

  2. Under your repository name, click Settings. If you cannot see the "Settings" tab, select the dropdown menu, then click Settings.

    Screenshot of a repository header showing the tabs. The "Settings" tab is highlighted by a dark orange outline.

  3. In the "Code and automation" section of the sidebar, click Pages.

  4. Under "Build and deployment", under "Source", select Deploy from a branch even if the site is currently using Actions.

  5. Under "Build and deployment", use the branch dropdown menu and select None as the publishing source.

    Screenshot of Pages settings in a GitHub repository. A menu to select a branch for a publishing source, labeled "None," is outlined in dark orange.

  6. Click Save.