On Sep 23, 2008, at 8:47 AM, Brendan Borlase 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 say to theme authors 'please style unpublished posts differently'.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 strongly feel unpublished posts should not be displayed on the front 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). I'm confused. Why on earth would it not show all published posts? That seems 1 billion times more confusing. IMHO, we should *never* hide published posts from users–whether in the frontend or backend. > > > 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. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
