Publishing an item in SharePoint makes it available to consume by users who do not have contribution rights to the item. If content approval is required, it will mark the item as Pending Approval. In this recipe, we will publish the publishing page we created in the Creating a publishing web part page recipe.
Tip
When content approval is required, a published item will not be available to noncontributing users until it is marked as Approved.
Follow these steps to publish a publishing page:
Navigate to the SharePoint list or library that contains the item to be published in your preferred web browser.
Select the item by clicking on the checkmark on the item.
Select Publish from the FILES tab on the ribbon.
Provide any applicable publishing notes.
Click on OK.