Moving scheduled posts should not autopublish them

  • Resolved emilprotalinski

    (@emilprotalinski)


    6 years, 3 months ago

    I created a scheduled post for a future date and accidentally dragged the post to today. Because the time had already passed, the post automatically published.

    This is how it works in WordPress: When you change the date/time on a scheduled post to a date/time in the past, the button changes to publish. But there are multiple clicks here, so it’s okay. With drag and drop though, there’s no confirmation: One mess up and you’ve accidentally published a story. Maybe a prompt saying that “this date/time has already passed, are you sure you want to publish this story” or simply not allowing dragging and dropping into the past for scheduled stories?

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  • Plugin Author Zack Grossbart

    (@zgrossbart)

    Thank you for using the Editorial Calendar. I’m sorry you’re having trouble with it.

    Can you tell me a bit more about what happened? We have a check to make sure that you can’t drag posts into the past. Is it possible that you dropped it into the current day just a little earlier than it was scheduled to post?

    Thread Starter emilprotalinski

    (@emilprotalinski)

    Yeah you’re right, it has to be the current day — so it’s more problematic as more of the day has passed. The calendar lets you drag and drop a scheduled post into the current day, even if the time is earlier than the current time, and just autopublishes the post. I realize that’s an edge case, but still a concerning one!

    Plugin Author Zack Grossbart

    (@zgrossbart)

    I’m sorry it took me a while to respond to this. I’ve been thinking about the right response.

    The more I think about this more it seems like a real edge case without dire consequences. You can always unpublish a post if you run into this case. I know this was confusing, but I don’t think an “Are you sure” warning message would really help here.

    Thread Starter emilprotalinski

    (@emilprotalinski)

    You are correct that this is an edge case though, but I figured I would bring it up since it did come up in our testing. Publishing a post accidentally (and then unpublishing it) is a post is a big problem on large installations of WordPress due to SEO implications, broken links, etc.

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