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

[spencerp]

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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[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.~~]