Showing draft to others
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is it possible to show draft pages to other people, without publishing them, thanks
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I’m hoping that you mean a draft Post.
I would publish it as a Private Post and give out the link. A private Post is not shown publicly and you can revert it back to draft status later on.
You can’t do that as a Page though since you can’t revert it back from Published to Draft.
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drmike – maybe I misunderstood what you wrote but I have changed pages from published to draft (and back again), just in the last couple of days even.
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This actually relates to something I was going to post as a possible way to work around a limitation of some themes.
In some themes, when you create a new page, you get a navigation tab on top or somewhere else around your header image. But suppose you’d like to have, say, 10 or more static pages of information on your blog, with links to them in the sidebar, but not all those tabs cluttering up your header image. One alternative is to make some of those pages “parent” pages and some “children.” That puts the “children” in the sidebar only. But what if they aren’t related in a way that makes that an appropriate solution? Well, I’ve only tested this in a perfunctory way, but I think you can write a post, save in as a *draft*, and then just link to that draft in a text widget in the sidebar. I’ll have an example at the very bottom of my sidebar for a little while right now.
Not sure if it will work the same way with pages, as I tired a few minutes ago and it linked to the admin panel for writing the page. But I think that was just an error in what I linked to.
Hope that isn’t too far off topic. :-/
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I believe you should check engtech’s reviews. I believe he has already itemized the themes where “sub-pages” appear in the sidebar. The Regulus theme treats sub-pages in this manner. They are displayed as links in the sidebar.
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Timethief — Yeah, it’s just certain themes. But what I’m saying is that if you want one of those themes, as I do, but you’d like to create some pages that are *not* sub-pages, and also aren’t tabs at the header image, my method might just work. For all I know, though, it may have some horrible drawback.
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Anyway, I won’t have the example there in my sidebar much longer, but it did seem to work. :)
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I do understand. I tried the one you have as an example and got this when I clicked on it “Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.”
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I tried creating pages and sub-pages in Cutline and the sub-pages display in the sidebar, rather than with the pages above the header.
Pages
* About
* coming home
* contact
* Epona
=> o epona sub - page=> means it’s indented on the blog but not in the comment box
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Ah, interesting. So maybe it was only working for me as a logged in admin. Good to know.
Yep, that was it.
Yes, subpages do display in the sidebar only. But I’d like a way to make that happen without them being subpages. Not a big deal, just a minor wish. I emailed support and was told it would be mentioned, but isn’t on the list of things to do at this point.
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drmike,
When I try making a post private, then log out and try to use its link to see the private post, as would someone to whom I gave the link, I get a 404 error page. Trying to publish it as private gives me the message that it will no longer be private. What am I missing? How can I create a private post that others (to whom I give the link) can see? Do I need to password protect it?
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drmike said: I’m hoping that you mean a draft Post.
I would publish it as a Private Post and give out the link. A private Post is not shown publicly and you can revert it back to draft status later on.
So just to be sure. Have you changed the setting on the right hand side “Post Status” just above “Time stamp” on the post in question? Click on the plus + sign and change the status to “private” and then click “save”.
And like vivian said: it can be done on pages too. I just changed a sub-page and a post back and forth.I’m wondering if a good look at the roles might indicate whether a person you give the url to could see a “private” post
http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/12/what-are-the-different-roles/
This is what the FAQs says about password protected posts
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Thanks. So I guess the options are either make the person an editor or password protect and give them the password. Not stuff I would often use, but good to know. I was trying to see if the “private” option might provide some other work-around for the page issue we discussed above. I guess I’ll just keep using page “parents” and “children”/sub-pages approach until the higher-ups recognize the earth shaking importance of the issue. :)
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@neouto
Thanks for the thanks on behalf of everyone who has posted to this thread. :)@growthmadness
IMO adding those you wish to see the post as “users” to your blog and using a password protected page is the better way to go. These users can later be removed and the password protection can be removed from the post in the future you so choose. So it seems you have two alternatives, neither or which is perfect. http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/17/how-do-i-add-more-authors-users-to-my-blog/ -
I have changed pages from published to draft
I’m thinking regular wordpress. Please excuse me. It came up a few days ago and why this was so in 2.0.6.
Sorry about that. :)
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I said,
“Yes, subpages do display in the sidebar only. But I’d like a way to make that happen without them being subpages. Not a big deal, just a minor wish. I emailed support and was told it would be mentioned, but isn’t on the list of things to do at this point.”
I actually should have said I’d like the option of making pages/subpages not visible at all in the sidebar. For instance, I’d like to be able to create an “all links” page with many more links than I show in the sidebar. It might have, say, 10 categories of links, each an active link itself, leading to a page of links for that category. I wouldn’t want all those categories showing in the sidebar. I’d just want the one link to the “all links” page.
In a wordpress.org blog I had, you could write in some code to specify that a page not be visible in the sidebar. Not sure if that was part of the CSS. I don’t think so. But it would be nice if the development folks would add some toggles of those sorts. I’ll ask them again one of these days. :)
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