What does "Available for Purchase" do?

Unchecking the box means that the lesson will not be shown anywhere on the site (browsing, search, product pages, etc)... and not be available for purchase (with the exception noted below)*.

Why would you do this?

Two reasons:

  1. The obvious one is that you want to make the lesson unavailable to the public for some reason**
  2. The other is that the lesson is only available as part of a course or membership program

* If you've marked a lesson as Unavailable and then edit it, you will see a new option titled:"Still allow visitors to view and purchase if they have a direct link"The purpose is to allow you to give certain people to view and purchase the lesson if you give them the direct link... but make sure the lesson doesn't show up to people who are just browsing or searching.

** NOTE: Making a lesson unavailable to the public DOES NOT make the content unavailable to people who have purchased the lesson. If you need to do that, delete the lesson entirely.