[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #11889: Create post with special post_status when viewing Add New screen

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#11889: Create post with special post_status when viewing Add New screen
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 Reporter:  markjaquith     |       Owner:  markjaquith
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  accepted   
 Priority:  high            |   Milestone:  3.0        
Component:  Autosave        |     Version:  3.0        
 Severity:  normal          |    Keywords:  featured   
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Comment(by rovo89):

 Updating the status to "draft" seems to work fine for autosave, where it
 is set explicitly. It works fine as well for manual "Save Draft", but only
 if the user has publishing capabilities. Otherwise, the combobox for
 changing the post_status (which defaults to "draft") is not included in
 the HTML and thus missing in the POST data.

 So if e.g. a Contributor creates a new post, types some words into the
 editor, clicks "Save Draft" and navigates to the list of posts, this post
 will be missing as it still has post_status "auto-draft". This does not
 happen if the user fills in the title, as the post will be autosaved upon
 leaving the title input field. Considering that custom post types might
 hide the title input field and users might disable Javascript, I think
 this should be fixed.

 I'm attaching a patch which adds a hidden post_status field with the value
 "draft" for non-publishers. Another option might be to explicitly set the
 post_status to "draft" if it was "auto-draft" before and no post_status
 was passed in the POST data.

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Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11889#comment:18>
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