Save drafts of published pages

  • I find it odd that you can’t start editing a published page, save those edits and come back and finish it later.

    My guess is that since WP started off more of a blogging platform the emphasis was on writing and saving posts, then once they’re live that’s it, but since WP is being used more as a full CMS these days this seems like an important feature that got overlooked.

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

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    Can you name me a CMS that allows you to do that? I’ve never seen it (and I use quite a few of them). Not even MediaWiki, which is the most edited crazypants one of the lot.

    Thread Starter Seth Stevenson

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    I guess I can’t think of one that does it right now, but I still think it’s something that would be good for a powerful CMS to have. Save changes to a page for later? Sounds like a useful feature right? ??

    Here’s my situation. I run a university website with hundreds of pages. I have multiple editors and they often need to prepare edits to multiple pages at once and launch them at the same time. They resort to saving each page’s text in a Word file, making edits over a few days and then pasting it over the text when it’s ready to go live.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

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    It would be good, but it’s hard to accomplish and still allow for people’s revisions to not run roughshod over each other.

    Thread Starter Seth Stevenson

    (@sethstevenson)

    Yeah, I imagined something similar to the notices like “There is an autosave of this post”, only “There is a saved draft of this page”.

    Sounds like a SVN solution such as ProjectLocker may be a good route to go; I’m a bit new to it but our company uses it to manage projects with multiple users/revisions. Just a thought.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Subversion

    https://projectlocker.com/

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