I have unpublished nodes in the back office they were unpublished in order to reduce the cash file and to increase the navigation speed, but i couldn't render the unpublished nodes.

I used the following example to handle the nodes that are beneath the "2017" which is unpulbished.

public class MyContentFinder : IContentFinder
{
   public bool TryFindContent(PublishedRequest contentRequest)
   {

    // handle all requests beginning /woot...
    var path = contentRequest.Uri.GetAbsolutePathDecoded();
    if (!path.StartsWith("/2017"))
        return false; // not found

    var content = contentRequest.UmbracoContext.Content.GetByRoute(path);


    if (content == null) return false; // not found let another IContentFinder in the collection try to find a document

    // render that node
    contentRequest.PublishedContent = content;
    return true;


    throw new NotImplementedException();
}
}

What I noticed, I could not get unpulbished content by GetByRoute() with a given path.

so the below line could not do the what I wanted :

 contentRequest.PublishedContent = content;

Any insight ?