Custom statuses that are Published?

  • Resolved ZAP

    (@michaelzap)


    10 years, 8 months ago

    Any way to do this? We’d like to be able to share the site for review by outsiders as we’re working on it, but pages set to a custom status are not visible unless you’re logged into the back end with the right permissions. Ideally we could pick and choose which statuses would be draft and which would be published, but a temporary hack during development would also be workable.

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  • Plugin Contributor Daniel Bachhuber

    (@danielbachhuber)

    Not possible at this time as it’s not supported by core WordPress

    Thread Starter ZAP

    (@michaelzap)

    OK, so then do I need to include a Published status among my custom ones so that posts can be published? Or should it actually be called “Publish” so that the slug becomes “publish”? I’m noticing some weirdness with the statuses of previously-published posts, and I want to be sure that this works as expected.

    Plugin Contributor Daniel Bachhuber

    (@danielbachhuber)

    Sorry — to clarify, what you want to do will need custom development. It’s not possible with Edit Flow or WordPress core at the moment.

    Thread Starter ZAP

    (@michaelzap)

    I understood that, thanks. I think that I can live with all of these statuses being unpublished. I just used Editorial Metadata checkboxes to flag issues that need review post-publishing, and that also works for our purposes.

    What I’m not clear on is whether I need to create a “custom” Published status. It seems as if one is added to the status drop-down menu if I edit a previously-published post, but for new posts none is available. And assuming I do need to add a Published status, should I name it “Publish” so that the slug is “publish” (which I believe is what WordPress expects for a published post)?

    Thanks for your reply.

    Thread Starter ZAP

    (@michaelzap)

    OK, I think that I’ve answered my own question by playing around with this a bit. Basically the Publish button will publish the post and change the status to Published, and the Save Draft button above the status drop-down allows you to save as any unpublished status. It’s a little confusing, but I guess that’s the WordPress way and I can work with it.

    If that’s not right, please let me know.

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