This was a standard feature in the Wordpress site we previously used at my workplace. It is extremely helpful for pages on programs that have been paused, but may resume later so you need to save the pages but have them be not viewable. I can use page restrictions as a workaround, but an unpublish option would be so much easier.

There are lots of cases where this would be useful!

I have serious edits to make to a published page, but I'd rather keep the link the same and unpublish while I make changes.

Very easy to hit Ctrl-s while editing a draft, which publishes the page.
A confirmation would be an easy way to avoid this problem.

Hi,

I'm a new user. Not easy not to hit more often than necessary the publish button. A preview button should maybe be right up there alongside the Publish button instead of being in the pulldown menu.

Thanks