I do agree with the logic, Brendan.

However, I think we still needs some mean to "preview" the draft post on the
front end. Which I would think would still be available even should we
exclude drafts from $posts.

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Brendan Borlase
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:29 PM, drzax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I agree that this is very unintuative and I was more than a little
> > confused when I first saw this behaviour. I don't think it's enough to
> > say to theme authors 'please style unpublished posts differently'. I
> > strongly feel unpublished posts should not be displayed on the front
> > end by default. Administrators should have an option to put the system
> > into some kind of preview mode. A simple get parameter would probably
> > sufice IMHO.
> >
>
> They certainly shouldn't (seconded!). The front end should only ever show
> published posts - including when logged in - and really, in future, should
> only show one's own posts (perhaps all published for a site admin).
>
> Drafts aren't part of the published time line and it doesn't follow logic
> for
> them to be presented as a result - drafts should exists *outside* of the
> published and thus visible time-line.
>
> It confused me (having driven several CMS, I can't recall ever seeing that
> behaviour before anywhere else) and I was actually initially concerned
> un-published content was (potentially) being seen where it should not be.
>
> Brendan Borlase
> → http://www.atomicninjalabs.com.
>
> >
>


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