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Separate publication status from workflow status

Open greglinch opened this issue 11 years ago • 4 comments

Problem

If an updated post needs to be edited after publication, having custom statuses tied to publication status doesn't let the writer revert the workflow status to pending review without the post unpublishing.

Proposed solution

Separate the workflow statuses from the publication status. For example, "pending review" or other custom statuses would have no affect on whether the post is published or not.

greglinch avatar May 22 '14 15:05 greglinch

@greglinch For related reading, fun convo on this in core.trac - https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12706#comment:183

AramZS avatar May 23 '14 08:05 AramZS

@AramZS Thanks for sharing that!

greglinch avatar Jun 02 '14 18:06 greglinch

There will be cases where any changes to already published content will need to go through the editorial workflow again, so this would certainly be a good improvement.

philipjohn avatar Aug 09 '16 14:08 philipjohn

The idea of cloning/forking posts can resolve the problem here https://github.com/Automattic/Edit-Flow/issues/400

htdat avatar Apr 13 '21 09:04 htdat