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 say to theme authors 'please style unpublished posts differently'.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 strongly feel unpublished posts should not be displayed on the front 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. > > > > -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
