ability to save pages as draft

[nilsjeppe]

Please add the ability to save pages as "draft", similar to posts. Oftentimes, I will want to start writing a page, but have not enough time to complete it right away.

I've worked around this by password protecting the page before it's ready, and also modifying the editing form so I could edit the timestamp and "future publish" the page, but this really needs looking at.

I still think the best approach is a unified posting screen, maybe with a "post/page" switch, where the only difference is the category/page_parent swap.

I agree that a unified posting screen would be ideal, but that will take a lot more discussion and planning. In the interim, here's an attachment that allows you to save a page as a draft.

Oh, and it requires a DB change so don't forget to run upgrade.php. Commitors: I haven't done anything about changing the DB version in this patch (couldn't find where to do it), so if you're committing this patch and it requires a change, could you do that for me? Thanks.

Don't commit that patch, I've found and are fixing some problems with it.

New patch. Problems fixed. World hunger solved.

We're going to fix this more thoroughly in a future release. Instead of overloading post_status, a post_type field will be added. post_type can be post, page, or attachment. post_status will be publish, private, and draft.

This is fantastic news. I raised this in a seperate ticket at the first of the year...

​http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2194

(In [3510]) Allow draft pages. Use post_type for object types. Reserve post_status strictly for status. fixes #1820