"Save as" button disappearing on edit/new post screens

[F J Kaiser]

When switching "visibility" from "public" to "private", the "Save as (draft/etc.)" button disappears. It doesn't come back when switching to "public" anymore.

When a post is published, be it public or private, it's no longer a draft post. You'd have to change the status back to draft for that to work.

Or am I missing what you're doing?

Private posts are considered to be automatically published.

There's a line (introduced in [9639]) in wp-admin/js/post.js to hide the "Save Draft" button:
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.4.1/wp-admin/js/post.dev.js#L445

Related: #5608, #9136

@ipstenu You're slightly missing what core is doing (took me a while too).

Situation:

1. You switch from "public" » "private".
2. ~/wp-admin/js/post(.dev).js gets involved.
3. $.click() 1) handler triggers the updateText(); function.
4. As there's no history tracking, the post gets moved to published - even when not.

This makes a post(type) go public without intention - confirmed in latest 3.5 trunk.

Currently working on a patch.

1) The click handler exists on the following elements inside the #submitdiv.postbox .misc-publishing-actions:

• ('#timestampdiv').siblings('a.edit-timestamp')
• $('.cancel-timestamp', '#timestampdiv')
• $('.save-timestamp', '#timestampdiv')
• $('#post-status-select').siblings('a.edit-post-status')
• $('.save-post-status', '#post-status-select')
• $('.cancel-post-status', '#post-status-select')

Replying to SergeyBiryukov:

Private posts are considered to be automatically published.

That's a problem/bug, as no one knows if the author/editor/whatever really wants to "publish" - so far he hasn't hit a button. Also, there's no AJAX involved, so it's not really "published" (post status changed). It's just the js/UI denying access to the "draft/other status" button.

Related: #18264

What I also think is problematic for the user (at least it was for me):

Scenario 1)

• User has to "publish" a post. (can do it as "private publish").
• Screen reloads » User can access the a.edit-post-status-Link again.
• User sets status to "Pending Review/Draft/Custom" and gets button again.

Scenario 2)

• User hits a.edit-post-status-Link » Status Drop-Down appears
• User switches to "private" » Button disappears
• User still has the drop down/select open (doesn't get hidden by jQuery.click handler) and switches status » Button appears again.

Now that is confusing.

Hides - in case - the open status drop-down/select + "OK"-button and "cancel"-link for consistency.

The patch is for "Szenario 2" actually - it's doesn't allow the "glitch" with the open drop-down anymore.

If we need a patch to change things generall - as in the original description of the ticket - then please ping me, so I can rewrite this stuff.