“Draft” is one of eight post statuses available in WordPress. A post in the Draft status is not published and is not visible to the public.
Draft is often confused with the “Pending Review” status. However, these two statuses have different meanings:
By default, WordPress users which access to the “Posts” screen can see all the Posts on the site, regardless of whether they are the author or can edit then. This is not a problem for many sites. After all, most Posts on most sites are publicly available – there’s no need to hide them. However,…
Here at PublishPress, our focus is on creating publishing workflows in WordPress. This includes allowing you to create custom statuses in WordPress. However, before moving on to more advanced workflows, people often need some clarity on the basic workflow features in WordPress. For example, what exactly is the difference between “Pending Review” and “Draft”?
Many of us spend a lot of time working on our content. We spend hours making sure the spelling, grammar, punctuation are as good as possible. So we are worried about losing content. What happens if my browser crashes? What happens if someone edits my post and makes a mistake? Fortunately, WordPress has the solution:…
This week we talked with a PublishPress customer who wanted to build an approval process for his website. His goal is to allow administrators to assign empty posts to authors, who can then add the content and pass them back to the administrator for approval. Here are the four steps in that workflow: In this…
By default, WordPress does not allow you to see a list of your own draft posts. This can be frustrating if you want to see your work in progress. The image below shows the filters on top of the “Posts” screen in WordPress. As you can see, there are a lot of available filters. However,…
We do our best to write a lot of documentation for PublishPress. However, many of you find it easier to follow video tutorials. So we’ve started posting videos on the PublishPress YouTube channel. There will be 2 new videos every week about PublishPress. We’ll also cover related topics such as WordPress content workflows and user…
PublishPress provides 3 dashboard widgets: Unpublished Content, Notepad, and Posts I’m following. These widgets appear on the main Dashboard screen in your WordPress admin area. If you don’t need these widgets, follow our guide to disabling dashboard widgets in WordPress. Unpublished Content The Unpublished Content widget gives an overview of the content that is in…