Drafts and User Level 1, I’m confused!

So am I.

Just went into my test setup with a level 1 user login; I can save as draft or private, and I can delete the post, but I never see an option to publish.

Youch! So inotherwords there’s something bizarro about my setup that’s letting user level 1 people publish?

Finally figured out my own bone-head problem. In the Options -> Writing menu under “Newly registered members” I had checked “May Publish Articles” instead of “May submit drafts for review”. Doing that apparently overrides the user level and lets user level 1 folks publish articles.

I would suggest that maybe a better policy to follow is to scrap that “Newly Registered Members” option entirely and instead there should be a way to set the user level of newly registered members. So let the built-in functionality of user levels take care of the ‘who can post what’ issue rather than providing the afore-mentioned option. Is there a formal way to suggest this?

I’d forgotten about that setting. Guess there’s a drawback to running a blog with one user…

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In working to improve the article: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/User_Levels came across this thread so wanted to add these comments (for 1.5.1.2):

In your Options, Writing choice, under Newly registered members:

If you check ‘Cannot write articles’ new registered users get assigned to User Level 0 (zero).

If you check ‘May submit drafts for review’ new registered users get assigned to User Level 1.

If you check ‘May publish articles’ new registered users get assigned to User Level 2.