Clicking on PUBLISH by mistake
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Hi WordPress, I want to ask if you could change the colour of your PUBLISH button to red. The reason is that I clicked ‘publish’ by mistake the other day when I was meaning to click ‘update’. Of course there was no way back and a slightly unfinished post went public. I had been doing a lot of cleaning up (editing) for a few days previously of older posts and pages. When I was updating them the ‘update’ box was the same blue exactly as the publish box…and I, being tired, automatically clicked it. So I would ask that either the button changed in colour … or… a pop up box automatically comes up when you click publish asking “do you really want to publish this now?” (just like when you click to delete email or photos on some sites…’are you sure you want to do this?’) I figure I can’t be the first person who has clicked on publish in error. A red button or a ‘are you sure?’ box would surely help. Thanks, Julie
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Hi Julie,
Thanks for your suggestion. We will keep it in mind for future updates! Also, don’t forget the ideas forum, where you can discuss your suggestion with the WordPress.com community: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/ideas
In the meantime, I wanted to make sure you know that you can change the status of your blog posts from published to a draft if they are accidentally published before you are ready. We have more information about the post status here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/new-post-screen/#publish
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Thank you Rachel, that was very helpful. I’ve actually learned quite a lot from the places you suggested I look. Julie
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You’re welcome, Julie. :) If you have any other questions about this, please let me know!
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