Dangerous Publish Button

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  tinyhousegiantjourney · Member · Dec 21, 2014 at 3:40 am

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  It’s probably my own fault, but I’m tired of hitting the “Publish” button while I’m making edits to a post and I think I’m hitting the “Save Draft” button. It’s just right there, blue, attractive and non-forgiving!
  There is no confirmation such as “Are you sure you want to publish?”. Nope, it goes straight live and sends an email to all of our followers. They receive a half-finished post, an email with working title, typos, missing pictures… etc. It’s very unprofessional and it’s my fault for publishing by mistake.
  Is there any way to add a step to the publish process? Another gate? Or hide the button somewhere else at least?

  Thanks for any help

  Guillaume

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 21, 2014 at 4:07 am

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  Use an offline blog editor like Blogdesk if you find that avoiding the Publish button is too hard.

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  dandelionsalad · Member · Dec 21, 2014 at 6:15 am

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  Use the old “classic” editor that has the “Save Draft” button on the right side bar above the “Publish” button.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Dec 21, 2014 at 6:21 am

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  other offline editors here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/

  Or! set your unfinished post to private; then if you publish it by too quick unconscious keystrokes, nothing will mail away until you set it to public…

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  tinyhousegiantjourney · Member · Dec 21, 2014 at 6:22 am

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  Those are all good ideas, thank you all! The other one I was thinking about was to just have it scheduled for a future date.
  The advantage is two folds:
  1. It can’t publish early
  2. It gives us a due date for finishing the post :P