On Sep 23, 2008, at 7:04 PM, Brendan Borlase wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 3:44 AM, Arthus Erea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> >> 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 say to theme authors 'please style unpublished posts 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 strongly feel unpublished posts should not be displayed on the 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. >> > > Sorry, I'll make it clearer. Anything published by the same logged in > user should be visible. Key word is "published" here. Are you sure you mean published? I can in no way support hiding posts from logged in users which are visible from logged out visitors! > > > Ideally (ACLs?) a site admin should be able to see all published posts > and in a multi-site blog, so should any additional editors - logged in > users perhaps might see only their own drafts? There is a lot of scope > to build a good ACL model. Why would a user *not* be able to see published posts? It's published, for crying out loud. Why hide it? Frankly, I am dumbfounded that we would consider something so confusing as hiding published posts from _anyone_. > > > But drafts shouldn't exist outside of any preview pages. I'm not > suggesting it should not be possible at all (plug-in ftw!) to show > drafts, > but they typically would be viewed as part of the preview-publish > cycle, > surely? :) Sure. > > > I think there seems to be some confusion over drafts being hidden > entirely versus shown on the front page (which would indicate they > were published on pretty much every other platform I have seen) when > logged in - it's going to confuse many more people than help. I think we agree a plugin would probably be the best approach. > > > +1 as a plug-in. :) > > Cheers, > > Brendan. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
