How to disable Automatic Draft mode

  • Resolved scgtorino

    (@scgtorino)


    1 year, 8 months ago

    Hi, here again!
    When i create a new post, by default, the post status is set to “Automatic Draft”, that replace also the Title. WordPress default mode allows to publish directly with no need to change the post status.

    This feature is very important for us: our website is updated by many contributors, most of them are very basic user that spent a lot of time on learning how to put something in the editor and just press the publish button. I think that WordPress is designed also for the people like them.

    We look at the Automatic Draft as a complication of the publication process. Considering that this function is not related to the Archive feature, we hope that can be a way to disable it in order to keep WordPress easy user experience.

    Thanks,
    Sim



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  • As you can imagine, this affects everybody who has more than one user working on the backoffice (i.e. anyone using WP beyond a tool for personal blogging).

    You may take a look at https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/save-draft-disappears/ where you’ll get an explanation about what is currently happening and why there is no known workaround for this annoying issue.

    Plugin Author shawfactor

    (@shawfactor)

    Imath patched his library which should fix this issue. Ive tested it and it seems to work. Resolving for god order

    xxxLesy

    (@xxxlesy)

    It appears this is still a thing. When I write a new post, the default status is draft. You have to manually change the post status to publish. This is quite confusing to less savy users, who are used to only hit the big blue button to publish.

    Plugin Author shawfactor

    (@shawfactor)

    this is not the same issue, the auto draft issue involved the title being automatically created and populated as auto draft on a new post title and slug. That is AFAIK (and I’ve tested it) fixed

    your issue is that the workflow is different to the way WordPress normally does it. Which is true. But if you think about it this has to be the case as the plugin adds a new post status. I’d also make the point that adding a new post status is not an easy thing as core does not have properly developed apis for this.

    To achieve this the plugin uses a brilliant library by @imath. that library allows multiple new statuses to be added (and I have other plugins for those other statuses). They all work together. This would not be the case if I tried to add some workflow for archiving alone

    I think the way the plugin does it is a good simple way that is extensible and I’ve no plans to change it. As such I’m resolving this issue but will reopen it if necessary)

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