Zack Grossbart

Thank you very much for looking into this. I was wondering if this was just me.

Thanks,
Zack

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

The only posts that should go live on your blog are scheduled posts. When the date and time specified to schedule a post is reached then the scheduled post goes live and it becomes a published posts.

Posts in the draft or pending state should never go live. Every new post created through the calendar or the standard WordPress mechanism is made a draft by default. To make it go live you have to open it and change the post status to published.

Could you please give me a few more details about the steps you are following and what behavior you’re seeing.

There is also a video about the Editorial Calendar which shows off most of the features. You can watch it here: https://vimeo.com/13196017

Thank you,
Zack

Unfortunately there isn’t much we can do in the Editorial Calendar to work around this problem. The WP Drip plugin changes the dates of each of your posts and the calendar shows them on that date. The only way around it is to disable the WP Drip plugin.

I’ve contacted the creators of the plugin in the past, but they have been unresponsive. Maybe you could give it a try.

Thanks,
Zack

Thank you for trying out the Editorial Calendar. I’m sorry you’re having an issue.

We’ve seen this issue with the WP Drip plugin. It changes the way post dates show up and causes all drafts to show up on January first. Any chance you’re running that plugin?

If not then I would check the other plugins you are running. Do any of them change the dates of your posts?

Thanks,
Zack

Hello Sergy,

If you want to try it you can comment out the save of the post content when you edit a post. That will let you change the title, time, and everything else but the content.

If you look in edcal.php line 791 looks like this:

$my_post[‘post_content’] = isset($_POST[“content”])?$_POST[“content”]:null;

Just comment out that line and you won’t save the post content. You might also want to hide the content field with CSS so it doesn’t look like a bug.

I haven’t tried this, but it looks like it works.

Good luck,
Zack

I have seen some reports of the more tag not working for quick edit. This is the same as the quick edit modes in other areas of the WordPress. In that case you’ll have to use the normal WordPress edit page. You can get access to that page through the edit link on the calendar.

Good luck,
Zack

Hello Sergey,

This is the different between quick edit and the full WordPress edit page. The quick edit translates this tag. You’ll see the same behavior in the QuickPress box on the Dashboard page. However, it looks like the pages still show the read more link in the correct location so this is more of a minor nuisance. Have you been having any trouble with it?

Thanks for using the calendar,
Zack

Hello Daiv,

Adding images to the calendar is a great idea. I need to think about how to implement that.

Dragging and dropping published posts has been a running debate. We are still thinking about the best solution here.

We do support jumping around the calendar by using the up and down arrow keys on your keyboard and the jump buttons in the title. We’ve considered adding the ability to jump to a specific date. We’re working on the best solution.

Thank you,
Zack

Hello Daiv,

We can’t really support the plugin after you make changes to it, but…

The easiest way to make this change is to comment out the isPostMovable function in edcal.js. Normally it looks like this:

isPostMovable: function(/*post*/ post) {
return post.editlink && post.status !== “publish”;
}

Change it to look like this and all posts will be editable

isPostMovable: function(/*post*/ post) {
//return post.editlink && post.status !== “publish”;
return true;
}

This one change will handle all of the classes, the dragging and dropping, and the editing. It should be pretty stable, but I haven’t given it extensive testing and can’t really support it.

Good luck.

-Zack

Hello Erika,

There have been some issues with WordPress 3.0 and auto-draft posts in many plugins. The next version of the calendar will hide auto-draft posts. Version 1.0 should be out very soon.

Thanks for letting us know and big thanks for using the calendar.

-Zack

Thank you so much for the great feedback Erica. I’ve added the ability to see post authors and we are actively thinking of ways to integrate color. I’m also doing some initial design on the drafts feature.

I have two more question about that feature. How many drafts are you typically managing at one time? How long do they typically stay drafts before you publish them?

Thanks,
Zack

> I edited the css to make drafts / pending posts appear in different colors
> so I know which posts need my attention. Would be great if those were both
> configurable in the admin area.

We used to use colors for posts and took them out. Colors are difficult because they never mean the same thing to different people. Most people use red for stop and green for go, but figuring out the right color for pending posts vs. draft posts is tough. I’m curious what colors you used.

> I would also love an option to include the author’s username on the calendar.
> That would really help as on one of my sites I have about a dozen authors.

We keep going back and forth on this. There is a tension between wanting to show as many posts as possible in the calendar and wanting to show more data. How many posts do you normally have on a single day and how many weeks do you normally show in the calendar?

> If drafts and pending posts could be placed in an area at the top of the page
> instead of in the calendar on the day they were created, that would really
> help me see at a glance how many posts I need to schedule.

I’ve never thought about using the calendar this way. It is an interesting idea. I need to think about it a little more.

> Pie in the sky: I put up posts at specific times every day, and if each day
> on the calendar had configurable time slots I could drag and drop posts into,
> that would be amazing!

How many time slots would you have in a day? Is it always the same times for every day, or do they change?

> Looking forward to the new release – I haven’t been this excited about a
> plugin in a long time!

Thank you so much for the feedback. I know how I use WordPress, but it is such a flexible tool that I need other perspectives. I’ll keep thinking about these changes.

By the way, this plugin is open source. If your interested in getting more involved let me know.

Hello Erika,

Thank you for using the calendar. I am compiling a list of blogs that use the calendar, may I add yours?

You are totally right about the way we handling posts that are pending review. I’ve just added support for this the same way we support draft posts. It will be there in the next release.

Keep that feedback coming.

Thanks,
Zack

No problem at all. I’m glad we figured it out.

That does help. Thank you very much.

I’ll try that other plugin and see if I can track down the issue. As for the view issue, does the calendar work the same as the view item for posts in the WordPress edit posts page?

Thanks,
Zack