[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #17255: More statuses (like draft and/or private) for media files

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#17255: More statuses (like draft and/or private) for media files
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 Reporter:  jane          |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Media         |     Version:  3.1
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch   |     Focuses:
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Comment (by pro99):

 I was looking for a way to change media/attachment statuses from Published
 to Draft and found this long thread. Our use case is translation. We have
 a main site in English, each post has many images. We are setting up
 another language with its own WordPress install as we'd like not mess with
 multi-language plugins. My plan was to make it easy for our translator:
 export all content from the English site, import it into the new language,
 unpublish all posts and pages. Then, for each translation, the editor
 could find the English post already formatted in English with all the
 media files in it, and would just need to edit the descriptions and
 content, then hit Publish. But in the current way of WordPress, all media
 files will remain available to search engines for indexing, and we might
 create a SEO mess with Google seeing the same images twice with the exact
 same descriptions, until the translator gets to the post they are part of
 and updates the descriptions.

 But if we could unpublish all media to draft, that would solve our
 problem.
 Can anyone think of a better way of accomplishing our goal, ie duplicate
 content and unpublishing it to make media loading and translating for an
 editor, so she doesn't have to deal with each image transfer one by one?

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