The location of the PUBLISH button
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Hi
I love WordPress. I don’t have a lot of complaints. I just have one suggestion. Please, please, please relocate the PUBLISH button away from the SAVE DRAFT button in the edit window. I know they are clearly labeled, but I constantly, inadvertently, in the euphoria of writing and saving drafts of my post, hit the PUBLISH button before I’m ready, on accident. This horror causes me to scurry to all of my other social media sites to delete my unready post, delete the published post, and start and new draft.
If you can’t move the button, maybe when the PUBLISH button is pushed, a friendly reminder could ask if I’m really ready to publish, then I could say OKAY, or GOD, NO!
I know this is user error, but I would really appreciate a little protection from my imperfections.
Thanks much,
Carol ParkerThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I’ve been here for over 9 years and I have no trouble at all with the use of the save draft button or the publish button. It seems that in the past only newcomers have posted on this as you have done. To make your suggestion in the correct place ie. in the Ideas Forum please use this link https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/ideas
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Also note that to link your username to your primary active blog so we can click it and immediately arrive on the site see here http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2007/10/06/link-your-username-to-your-blog/ Note: This change is not retroactive. It applies only to comments you submit after the change is made.
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Hello. I agree that this is a basic functionality mistake of the interface, they should have known better. It is another mistake that the ‘publish’ button is in a contrast color but not in a warning color (like red), while the safe-draft button is not. When tired or working too intensely, it is easy to make the mistake. It is impossible to retreive send e-mails that contain a draft version, which causes significant damage to the publishing. It is a second error that this important button does not lead to a second menu from which to confirm or deny that one wishes to publish; or that at least such an option is made available for who needs it. As you may have guessed, I just also inadvertently pushed the wrong button (as I found out much later), but even before that I saw that the interface is incorrectly build. It is an excellent solution to place the publish button in an isolated corner, in which case a secondary menu is probably not necessary either. I hope that this will be corrected, but if not then I am sure more mistakes are going to occur sooner or later.
The mistake is actually compounded by a third mistake: when an article is already published, the contrast button becomes the button to update the article. As the article is already published, one would want to have the update reach the published version as quickly as possible. Hence, when editing an already published article, one has to hit the contrast button, and not the safe-draft button. This shift in the logic of editing a draft and a published article, is also bound to cause further accidental errors. I have also noticed that it is causing me significant additional attention to focus on htis button, when I need my brain on something that matters – and not on an interface that has intuitivity problems. Otherwise the system is very good and worked out.
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Sorry to go on about it, but it is perhaps a solution to use the “example” button rather then the safe-draft button, to avoid mistakes during drafting at least, which are the worst mistakes. After it is published, it doesn’t matter anymore. The example button gives the opportunity to review & correct, without risking to hit publish. I would normally want to hit ‘safe-draft,’ in case the computer crashes and such, so that the material is saved to the last moment. That objective would then have to be sacrificed.
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Right? I agree that the way it’s set up is not intuitive. I’ve been ever so much more careful when composing.
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Timethief, I am unable to see the link you posted regarding linking my blog to posts in the forum. The link states that I need a domain upgrade to see the information.
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