[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #3239: User experience for "publishing" private posts should be improved

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#3239: User experience for "publishing" private posts should be improved
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 Reporter:  foolswisdom     |        Owner:  bryanveloso
     Type:  defect          |       Status:  new        
 Priority:  normal          |    Milestone:  2.2        
Component:  Administration  |      Version:  2.0.4      
 Severity:  normal          |   Resolution:             
 Keywords:                  |  
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Comment (by molecularbear):

 [http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/124 #124] also touches on this subject.

 In my opinion, the main problem is that the '''Publish''' button overrides
 the Post Status with no notice or warning of any kind. Even if one assumes
 that the user knows the difference between '''Save''' and '''Publish''',
 the physical location of the buttons in the UI make it easy to click the
 wrong one. If the post is published publicly for just a second, RSS
 readers, spiders, etc can pick it up.

 I recognize that most bloggers will probably want to write their content,
 then click a single button to publish that content publicly. Here are some
 ideas that might allow us to have our cake and eat it too:

 A) Create an option that allows the disabling of the '''Publish''' button.

 B) Create an option that sets the default action of the '''Publish'''
 button. Right now the default is implicitly, "Save as Public", but one
 could give the user the ability to change this to "Save as Private".

 C) Eliminate the Post Status selection and replace the '''Save''' and
 '''Publish''' buttons with: '''Save Draft''', '''Publish Publicly''',
 '''Publish Privately''' - perhaps one could have pretty pictures next to
 the buttons, i.e. a world globe next to '''Publish Publicly''', a lock
 next to '''Publish Privately''', etc. Somewhere on the page the current
 post status could be displayed as an FYI to the user.

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