I don’t know how many people who have an idea that they want to write about but just don’t want to put it in print until they’ve revised it a bit. I do. Right now, I have 8 drafts of articles waiting to be written (some are just titles and one line saying, “write about this with this emphasis, etc” or whatever. They way drafts have been listed before is to have the title of the post/page sitting above the post to be written in the write panel of the admin. There could be a whole list there cluttering things up if you had a lot of unfinished business. I don’t know where this will go with further revisions or whether it will even stay in until 2.3 is out, but, for now, I’ve noticed in the current alpha of 2.3, that the list now stops after 3 on my write page with a reference link to 5 more. If I click that link, it brings me to a “Drafts” page, which is a feature that’s been asked for a few times on the wp-testers and other lists and forums. So now, if you have drafts to be published later, they get a seperate page like pages and posts do. This makes it a bit easier to find these drafts in a nice list, layed out the same way as the rest of the editable data on one’s site.
I think that a lot of people will like this feature when its polished well enough to go into the final release. Heads up!
First thing: I hope they discontinue the bloody autosave. That keeps getting on my nerves, creating unnecessary drafts when I am not even sure of an idea. I hate deleting drafts because they lead to discontinuity in article IDs and I try to keep them as continuous as possible.
So far, I’ve not noticed that any drafts have been kept when I publish an article. I don’t see any cruft being left as a result of that, so far. For what they call an alpha, this nightly that I’m running (even on this blog) seems pretty solid. Now I just have to start playing with the tagging structure and see if I can call it like you can with UTW.
I didn’t mean drafts left behind when I publish. I mean drafts when I don’t even want to save a particular topic.
Autosave creates unnecessary drafts in a short when I even start typing a few words. I want to avoid saving any drafts until I’m sure of a post because I want to avoid deleting them to preserve continuous article IDs.
Aha. Got ya there. I’ve not really payed too much attention to that aspect, as I usually rely on the page slug, which has been date based from the beginning. As long as I don’t name an article the same name on the same day, I will never have a problem. I suppose if I ever had to search my database by ID, I’d be more interested in that.