Post Status:Difference between Draft & Private
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Am new to WordPress.com (a freebie)(during the last week) and have created a photoblog, [jm.n], using the Daydream template. I am an ex-new Blogger user. In the Blogger dashboard, one can prepare posts and save them as Drafts. This means they do NOT appear on the blog.
One of the first things I do after preparing a blog is to check a number of things after logout and after having submitted to blogsearch engines, including searching for posts by name or category. In this way, I can see if things are working and that I can find some posts that should be there.
What I’ve noticed already in WordPress.com re posting to my blog is:
1. Posts that have been set as Draft and saved do NOT appear on my blog, but can be found/viewed via the WordPress.com home page tag clouds search method.
2. On this basis, the only other non-publishing choice that seems to be available is to choose the Private setting. However:
a. Whilst still being logged in, these Private posts can be seen when viewing my site within various Categories.
b. Whilst being logged in, these Private posts are available for viewing, again, via the home page tag clouds search method.
c. After logout, Private posts are not shown on my blog, nor viewable by the tag cloud access method.Setting posts to Private is unsuitable as a ‘holding’ method *before* choosing to publish any of them. Why this concerns me is that, after having imported my old posts and comments from Blogger, and after a necessary culling, I have kept some of the old posts for future showing on my blog. I wish to be able to publish and unpublish these posts, at will. I will have only around 20 posts on my blog at one time, so need to have a ‘holding pen’ to keep the ones that I do not wish to show on my blog at that time.
In Blogger, having the post set as Draft created this ‘holding pen’.
So, my question is:
a) in WordPress.com which is the best Post Status to use, so that *no-one* sees a post on my blog until I choose to publish it?
b) and, after having published a post, what is the best Post Status to use to return it to a ‘holding pen’, without anyone seeing that post until a future time I may wish to re-publish it?I think the Draft status *should* be the status to use, as per Blogger. Any help that is clear and logical would be very much appreciated. Thanks!
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1) Shouldn’t be. Best bet would be to submit that via feedback from your dashboard and point that out to staff. be sure to include specifics like URLs and post titles so that they don’t have to guess as to what they should be looking at.
2a-c) If you are the blog admin, you have the ability to see all of the posts.
Draft status should be the holding method. Private status puts it out that but not within the category index nor on teh front page. Folks have to be given a link click on to find the post.
Hope this helps,
-drmike -
Thanks, drmike! Have checked Point 1) again when logged out, and this seems to be all-clear as of today, as I have today changed the posts with Private status to Draft status, and did a search using the tag cloud on the WordPress.com home page. The results did show two posts, but once I clicked onto them, got the message “Sorry, no posts match those criteria”, so things are working fine now! I presume they will eventually disappear in the normal database clearing process.
I now understand too about being able to view all posts (2a-c), thanks again!
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