Suggestion: Publish/unpublish option for pages

[dave-ha]

Hi everyone,

What procedure do you recommend to prepare a page in WPB, i.e. that should not be published yet?

Users can check the hidden page checkbox in order to hide the page in the navigation. But when the site is published, such a hidden page gets added to the sitemap.xml file and is undesirably crawled by search engines...

As an alternative users could check the protected page checkbox and restrict access to the page with a username and password. Or they could manually disallow access in the robots.txt file. However, both seems to me a bit complated for most users.

Wouldn't it be easier to have a simple publish/unpublish option for every page? ... To avoid confusion with the hidden page option, I guess the label for the hidden page option should then be renamed to something more specific like "hide page in menu". It goes without saying that unpublished pages should also be hidden from the menu, so the publish/unpublish option could be a subset of the hide page in menu function.

 

[dave-ha]

Any suggestions?

 

[custer]

Hi Dave,

It seems to me that you need a "WIP" checkbox/control that will hide page from navigation modules and will prevent it from being published. Does this make sense to you?

 

[dave-ha]

Hello Custer,

Does WIP mean "work in progress"? Then yes, and at the time of publication it would be great if those checked pages are omitted in the sitemap.