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.

[error]

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.

[markjaquith]

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.

[davidhouse]

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.

[davidhouse]

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.

[davidhouse]

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

[davidhouse]

New patch. Problems fixed. World hunger solved.

[ryan]

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.

[doc]

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

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

[ryan]

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