Enhancement Request: direct link to Drafts under Posts and Pages on the sidebar

[imanilea]

It would be awesome if there were a link under posts and pages to get directly to Drafts. So, for example the sidebar would have:

Pages
   All Pages
   Drafts
   Add New

[bsuneja]

Editing drafts is a (more) frequent event for many content creators than creating new posts/pages. Adding the Drafts link so it's more quickly accessible would be great.

Additionally, it'd be great to have a link to Drafts in the admin bar shown on top when you're logged in, either next to the +New drop-down or as another item in the +New drop-down menu, so it becomes:

+New | Drafts

OR

+New
---Post
---Drafts
---Media
---Link
---Page
---User

[hugobaeta]

This might be an interesting addition, but I'd argue that it might be more useful for "Posts" than for "Pages".

[hugobaeta]

A quick mockup done in the chrome inspector

[karmatosed]

In the design meeting on Slack today we discussed this and Custom Post Types came up. I think it could be interesting to allow developers to decide whether to show drafts in the menu or not. The issue with this is that it adds another variable to them, but it's worth considering as some will and some won't make sense to have drafts.

Another point raised that I agree with, is that pages probably makes less sense than posts to have drafts.

I really like the option above and think it does provide value. Anyone interested in iterating on a patch?

[DrewAPicture]

27253.diff​ implements a Drafts link and show_drafts_in_menu argument for register_post_type(), disabled by default. The patch only enables it for posts.

[helen]

I am not sure about a register_post_type() arg - it feels overly presumptive about post statuses in tandem with other post types. Seems reasonable enough for posts-posts, though.

[jorbin]

Thinking about this in the context of custom post statuses, I wonder if register_post_type should include a show_status_in_menu argument that takes an array of statuses and is empty by default. If a status is passed in, it adds a menu link for the status.

[chriscct7]

I tend to follow @jorbin on this in terms of having statuses register themselves as a menu item with an array default empty for each post type. It would be a lot more flexible for post statuses in the future.

[chriscct7]

Punting per discussion

[chriscct7]

Patching it per discussion

[desrosj]

Most recent patch is currently failing for me.

[chriscct7]

Needs more work and testing that what will be possible in the remaining time left for 4.7 release. Punting to next release.