[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #23314: Allow published posts to be revised without being updated immediately

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#23314: Allow published posts to be revised without being updated immediately
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 Reporter:  kovshenin                            |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement                          |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  Future
Component:  Revisions                            |  Release
 Severity:  normal                               |     Version:
 Keywords:  editorial-flow needs-screenshots     |  Resolution:
  has-patch                                      |     Focuses:
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Comment (by Robert Hickman):

 To further describe the above image, content_revisions.png​, this is how I
 implemented this functionality in the UI of my own CMS. As a point of
 referance for how it could be implemented in WP.

 All revisions of a content item are first class citizens. When a new
 revision is created, the previously published revision retains it's
 published flag and the latest can be changed without changing the previous
 content items at all. Previous content items can be viewed by clicking on
 them in the sidebar, which simply displays there content in the edit form.

 When the updated content is published it simply clears the 'published'
 flag of the previously published item, and sets this flag to true for the
 item which was chosen to be published. Because of this arrangement, it is
 also easy to republish a previous version, should it be required.

 The data schema of this system is quite different from what wordpress
 uses. As mentioned all 'revisions' are first class, it does not
 distinguish between 'post'/'page' and 'revision' like wordpress does. As a
 side effect of this the DB ID field of the published item will change if a
 different version is published. Doing such would break things under
 wordpress's schema if a plug-in referenced the ID rather than the item
 marked as published.

 This functionality could be implemented on the data schema that Wordpress
 uses if the 'published' revision where copied over the data in the
 'post'/'page' etc record.

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