It is essential to be able to view individual un-published posts if requested, but I don't think un-published posts should appear in multiple post lists by default.
I do think that this would be quite confusing as it is counter-intuitive and goes against the expected behaviour. Andrew On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:47 PM, rick c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
