# Numbering confusion when unpublishing pages
**URL:** https://forum.getkirby.com/t/numbering-confusion-when-unpublishing-pages/26445
**Category:** Questions
**Tags:** v3
**Created:** [September 9, 2022, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/numbering-confusion-when-unpublishing-pages/26445 "2022-09-09T14:07:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@moritzebeling](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/moritzebeling)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2022, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/numbering-confusion-when-unpublishing-pages/26445/1 "2022-09-09T14:07:40Z")
Hello, when I want to unpublish certain pages while looping through them, the sorting numbers seem to be confused and new pages are being created.
Lets imagine I have a list of pages, all with the template `page` like:
```bash
1_page-one/page.txt
2_page-two/page.txt
3_page-three/page.txt
4_page-four/page.txt
```
and want to unpublish the second of them:
```php
foreach( $pages as $page ){
if( $page->slug() === 'page-two' ){
$page->unpublish();
}
}
```
My pages now look like:
```bash
_drafts/page-two/page.txt # correct
1_page-one/page.txt # correct
2_page-three/page.txt # correct
3_page-three/default.txt # where does this come from?
3_page-four/page.txt # correct
4_page-four/default.txt # where does this come from?
```
Somehow two new pages were created with `default` template. I assume that this is the classic reindexing problem when manipulating an array while looping through it. Do I need to skip one loop? Or reindex manually? Any idea how I could solve that?
Thank you very much!
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### Author:  [@texnixe](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/texnixe)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2022, 2:43pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/numbering-confusion-when-unpublishing-pages/26445/2 "2022-09-09T14:43:07Z")
Where are you calling this code and are you calling this exactly as is?
Which Kirby version are you using?
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### Author:  [@moritzebeling](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/moritzebeling)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2022, 3:02pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/numbering-confusion-when-unpublishing-pages/26445/3 "2022-09-09T15:02:22Z")
I am running the code from a custom route so that it can be triggered by some 3rd party webhook. The example above is a little bit abstracted, but technically the same.
Kirby 3.7.3
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### Author:  [@texnixe](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/texnixe)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2022, 3:27pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/numbering-confusion-when-unpublishing-pages/26445/4 "2022-09-09T15:27:15Z")
I just tested this in a 3.7.5 Starterkit and cannot reproduce the issue. Is it reproducible somehow? How many subpages are there in your folder?
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### Author:  [@moritzebeling](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/moritzebeling)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2022, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/numbering-confusion-when-unpublishing-pages/26445/5 "2022-09-09T16:42:22Z")
Thank you very much!
I just realized, that the problem is not caused by unpublishing the pages, but by updating some of them afterwards.
Doing a `$parent->purge()` solves this.