Monitor an internal competition without publishing its leaderboard

Can I hide a leaderboard and reveal the results later?

Yes. You can unpublish and republish a leaderboard at any time, including after the campaign ends. Unpublishing does not delete the leaderboard or stop it from tracking qualifying gifts. When you republish it, the standings include qualifying gifts received while it was unpublished, according to the leaderboard’s configured rules. The results are not frozen at the moment you unpublish it.

To hide the standings for the final days of a competition and reveal them afterward:

1. Open Campaign Settings → Motivation & Sharing → Leaderboards → Manage Custom Leaderboards.
2. Find the leaderboard and click Unpublish. It moves to Draft and is no longer displayed publicly.
3. When you are ready to reveal the results, return to the same list and click Publish.
4. Open the public campaign page to view the standings. Allow the results to refresh after publishing.

For a tiered landing page’s leaderboard, use that page’s Custom Leaderboards list and its Unpublish or Publish action.

Can admins see the standings while the leaderboard is unpublished?

No. There is no backend view or private preview of the unpublished leaderboard standings. Admins can still manage the leaderboard’s settings, but the leaderboard itself can only be viewed on the public page when it is published. Publishing it to check the standings also makes it visible to visitors.

Unpublishing an individual leaderboard is separate from hiding the entire Donors section. If you previously hid that section, make it visible again under Campaign Setup → Images & Display → Page Layout so the published leaderboard can appear.

Gift reports can be used to review the underlying donations separately, but they are not a private view of the unpublished leaderboard.