Auto Posting Posts – Is there a Bug?

  • Hi,
    Just a quick question and weather its a possible bug,
    I have my ‘Default Post Category’ in settings set to ‘Unavailable Category’,
    which is password protected.
    When i post (admin),
    The category section is empty and i have to choose the category and it only posts to ‘Unavailable’ if i hit post without selecting a category.
    This is what i believe to be correct and working fine.
    However,
    I also have someone else who posts for me,
    She is just a user rather than admin as i don’t want her to have access to all the setting.
    This is where it starts going wrong.
    She doesn’t have the option to choose ‘unavailable’ category, i just want it as a backup if she forgets to select a post category.

    However,
    Whenever she clicks ‘New Post’, it opens the new post page and instead of saving a draft it seems to auto publish and as shes not had a chance to choose category as it does it as soon as the page opens, it puts it in the unavailable category.

    Is there a way to make it save draft rather than auto post,
    Like it does when i sign in as admin?

    Many Thanks
    Stephan

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    That doesn’t sound like normal behavior, it could be your theme or a plugin is changing default behavior. Are you saying a new post is auto published even when the save as draft or submit for review buttons are not clicked?? That’s not right at all!

    Normal behavior when starting a new post will add two rows to the posts table, first an “auto draft” is added which will not have the default category assigned and represents the current state of the post. Soon afterwards, the auto-save mechanism kicks in and adds a normal draft post as though the save draft button was clicked. This post does have the default category assigned if no others have been selected.

    Once submitted for review, the draft status is changed to pending and if another category is selected, it will appear instead of the initial default. This is for posts created by a user with the Contributor role assigned. This is the least powerful predefined role that can create new posts, but not publish nor do much else. An editor or admin needs to publish contributor posts for them.

    If you are observing anything differently, it’s due to some added code changing default behavior. Correcting aberrant behavior would then be the responsibility of who ever wrote that code.

    Thread Starter Stephanrkhd

    (@stephanrkhd)

    Hi,
    Thanks for the speedy reply,
    Yes that correct,
    It publishes it as it opens the page,

    So i didn’t think that sounded right,
    However, that might be the answer,
    Its could be some modded code that’s the issue,
    I’ll try and have a play tomorrow and report back,
    But i know i have 2 plugins running to limit permissions,
    I have a ‘Role’s’ plugin active which limits what her user role can post in and ‘Adminize’ to limit the amount of options on the screen.

    I’ll try disabling these and see if that fixes it for me.

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