Editing Post Deletes It?

  • Hi all,

    Setting up a blog for some 8th grade students at my school. Running V1.5, clean install. Single blog, two admins (one level 10, one 9), student authors at level 1. There is only greeked text ther now, hope to launch next week. URL: https://www.ncs-nj.org/blogs/bookclub/

    Problem scenario: student user posts an article. It is held as a draft until I approve it (as admin) and it shows up as it should. Comments, everything work great. Problem … if a student subsequently edits the approved post, it dissapears.

    Found this:

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/17175#post-98450

    But it appears to be a long-since closed bug. Any ideas?

    Thanks, kj

    KJ99GT bookclub

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  • Is this happening to ALL posts that are edited? Or just this one? Have you been able to reproduce the problem?

    Are you sure that they didn’t accidentally hit the “delete post” button? It can happen…especially if they start editing things like the timestamp, and just not realize that the button below it is actually “delete” and not “save”.

    Or this might have to do with the user level issue. If they edit it, it might revert to draft because the admin still has to “approve” it?

    Just an idea. Check the draft list and the database to see if the post is still “there” just not visible.

    Thread Starter kjarrett

    (@kjarrett)

    Hi guys, thanks for the quick replies.

    This is reproducible, and has happened to all users I’ve tried it on.

    The post is not visible, though I am sure they are still in the DB. I’ll check. If it is, what difference would that make?

    I would expect the post to be placed in moderation for an admin to re-approve. That is/was my desire.

    I’ll try increasing the user levels and see if that helps.

    -kj-

    Thread Starter kjarrett

    (@kjarrett)

    Can’t increase the user levels – these people need to be 1’s.

    Any other thoughts? We are launching Monday, I don’t want to have to tell people they can’t edit an approved post.

    Thanks, kj

    Thread Starter kjarrett

    (@kjarrett)

    Aha!

    Upgraded to v1.5.1, easy … now I see when an author attempts to edit a previously published post, the following message is displayed:

    “You are not allowed to edit this post.”

    At least this prevents the posts from being edited and placed into limbo.

    I see that if an admin sets the post back to DRAFT, it can then be edited by the original author and reapproved. Understandable and logical.

    Thanks for the upgrade guys!

    -kj-

    Wow. I’m glad the new upgrade fixed it. There are a lot of little things been fixed in there.

    And let us know how your students do! This is so exciting.

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