[wp-testers] Giving blog drafts their own page..

[spencerp]

Matt wrote:
> Yes, it would be nice to have the Drafts have there own page. So, you 
> could
> have multiple Drafts, and still be able to neatly access/see them.
>
> On 1/18/07, spencerp <spencerp1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> With the discussions of what's going to be going on with, and in WP
>> version 2.2.. I'd like to bring up about the Drafts getting their own 
>> page
>> in the wp-admin, again.. ;) :)
>>
>> Basically saying, like the comments have now in 2.1. Have it so the 
>> drafts
>> have the same thing, just in a different form.. ;) :)
>>
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>> spencerp
>> http://spencerp.net
>>
>> [I wrote Nov 22, 2006 at 9:47pm>
>> I'm sorry if this was mentioned before, I must have overlooked the
>> discussions on it.. The reason for this email is, I was wondering if 
>> anyone
>> knows of a plugin, or, would there be a way to make the blog drafts more
>> organized?
>>
>> Like, maybe give them their own page, in the blog's control panel? As an
>> example, in under MANAGE, the drafts are above the other articles
>> there..but, what if someone has 20 + drafts..?  IMHO, I think it 
>> would be
>> nice, and better to have them on their own page..?~~]
>>
>> [Mark Jaquith replied with>
>> Fleshing out the draft system in WP has been on my mind for a while.  I
>> really hate the way drafts are presented now.  Another thing that 
>> needs work
>> is the user-submitted posts functionality.  We've had that  hanging 
>> around
>> since WP 1.3 and not much has happened since.  There's the potential 
>> there
>> to use WP as a publishing system where authors write their own stuff but
>> editors must approve it before publishing.
>>
>> There needs to be a way of marking posts as "ready for publishing" so 
>> that
>> editors know to proof it.  There needs to be a cleaner way of notifying
>> editors that there are posts ready for proof-reading. Plugins can 
>> fill in
>> gaps for things like editing of author-approved posts and e-mail
>> notification of ready-for-proof drafts, but the core functionality 
>> could use
>> some work.  2.2 or beyond, though.~~] 

Can we see this happen in 2.2 before it officially releases? Or, is this 
a bigger change, that probably won't happen until the next BIG release 
of WP? Just was wondering.. :P

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