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 say to theme authors 'please style unpublished posts differently'.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 strongly feel unpublished posts should not be displayed on the front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


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