As long as I can still see what the draft post on my theme using the "preview post" link, I am ok with not displaying unpublished entries with the flow. I personally use this feature to preview my posts after saving them and before publishing. I don't have a problem with how should I access that preview, I do use the preview however.
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 5:34 AM, Chris Meller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I don't think entries other than those which have been published should > ever be displayed on the actual blog. Often I'll publish an entry and go to > my blog to see it. Seeing a draft entry would freak me out, since I hadn't > told Habari to publish it. There's also no way of telling, unless a theme > manually does so, which posts are published and which aren't. > Axe the un-published posts. > > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Arthus Erea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> >> I think we should slow all entries to logged in users. (Eventually, >> this should really tie into ACL and only show entries the logged in >> user has view privileges on) >> >> I used some rather complicated layouts and like being able to confirm >> that an entry doesn't garble anything _before_ I publish it. This >> includes the 'multiple' pages – where the potential for error is the >> greatest. >> >> So, I am in favor of keeping things how they are. >> >> On Sep 22, 2008, at 6:47 PM, rick c wrote: >> >> > >> > For normal readers of our site, only entries which have the >> > 'published' status are available for viewing. The determination was >> > made at some point in the past to show entries of any status if the >> > person reading a site was logged in to the backend. This has caused a >> > great deal of confusion to users. >> > >> > I'm hoping to be able to get a consensus as to whether the ability to >> > see what entries will look like in the normal flow of one's blog is >> > worth the confusion it causes, or whether we should get rid of this >> > ability while still retaining the ability to see a preview of a post >> > from the publish page. >> > >> > If it is something we decide we want to do, the change would be easy >> > to make. All that needs done is to create a url with a boolean >> > parameter that marks the entry as being viewed from the publish page, >> > and in theme.php test for the presence of that parameter as well as >> > whether the user is logged in or not, which is what we do now. If both >> > conditions are met, the entry will be shown, but only on a single >> > entry page. If not, it won't. Then, if the user navigates away from >> > the entry's page, only published posts will be seen, even if the user >> > is logged in. >> > >> > Rick >> > > >> >> >> >> > > > > -- Ali B / dmondark http://www.awhitebox.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
