Best Practice for Editing

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#1

Hi,

I edit a live site. I don’t have a license for a staging site and, in any case, it is too labour-intensive to put changes live from staging to production.

So my question is this: Is there a way to save my changes as Draft before publishing? Obviously I want the old page still to be up there until I publish the changes I’m making, but I don’t want to publish every time I hit save (because my changes might only half be done).

What’s the best approach here?

Thanks
Steve

#2

Hi Steve,

You can set your pages private then make them public when you finish.

Regards!

#3

Hi

I dont have that option.
I have Publish or Draft. If I set to draft, it ignores it and publishes anyway. When I reload the page, it’s back to Publish.

Thanks
S.

#4

Hello @skyhawkmedia,

Thanks for updating the thread.

Please set the page visibility to Private. Here is a screencast.

Thanks.

#5

Sorry, but won’t that take the page offline?

#6

Hi There,

The page would be offline if you make it private.
There is no other way to make a page half publish:slight_smile:
You can create a similar page in private mode and when every thing . finished you can import the content template to your published post.

That way you can make it.

Thanks

#7

ok thanks,

I thought (hoped) that, in Pro, there might be a way of saving changes to a live page without publishing them straightaway. Seems there isn’t.

This is one of the major headaches of Wordpress in my view. There is no great way of working on a development, promoting to test then promoting to production…you know, like all other software release mechanism’s in the world :slight_smile:

Thanks again
S.

#8

Hi @skyhawkmedia,

Do you have existing issues with Draft? That shouldn’t publish your page. That’s the only way to create a draft without publishing it.

I just tried it and it works on my end, just add a title then save it as a draft. And hit the button edit with cornerstone or Pro. It’s Wordpress’ feature, if you having issue with draft then maybe we could check it. Please provide your site’s URL and admin login credentials in a secure note.

Thanks!

#9

Hey,

The issue is not with creating new pages, it is with editing (but not publishing) changes to existing pages. I want to edit a page in multiple sessions but not publish until the page is complete. The only real way to do it I think is create a new page (as you say, in Draft) as a duplicate of the current live page, then test it, then replace the links to the current live page to that of the draft, and retire the old page.

It’s all a bit clunky isn’t it. IMHO page revisions should really be built into Wordpress.

My real problem is this: Whenever I edit a text field in Pro (the new version, not classic text), I hit the “Click here to edit” field to change the text. When typing in the editor window, the page is updating in real-time, right? However, sometimes (most times) it doesn’t. It has the little black, whirly “please wait” thing spinning around in the corner and it never finishes. And no other dynamic updates to the page take place after that. The only way for me to get working again is to hit Save and refresh the page…and in doing so publish my half-finished changes.

But I guess I’ll continue to work around it.
Thanks
S.

#10

Hey @skyhawkmedia,

Regretfully, what you need is currently not possible. Please stay tuned for future updates.

Thanks.

#11

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