Feature discovery: 'View'

[alan]

I had a nagging question: how do I build copy in the admin, check it in the real site but not allow people to see it until I am sure it is all correct.

Of course it's simple and likely 100% of you knew this already, but just in case you are like me and didn't quite know, this is it:

1. create a page but don't click 'Publish'
   
2. on the page's Settings tab click 'Hidden'
   
3. publish the page
   
4. edit it as much as you like
   
5. click 'Save + Keep Unpublished'
   
6. log out, login, re-read your copy after a nice walk to see if you can improve it
   
7. want to see your page in-situ (as it will look when it's visible)? Click 'View' and you see a private, unpublished but as-it-would-look version of the page as it is now
   
8. repeat 4. and 5. as much as you like until you're ready to release your masterpiece, at which point just un-tick 'Hidden' and re-save click 'Publish'.
   

Update: edited above as it's even easier than I realized, thanks Ryan for correcting me

Happy editing.

Edited June 4, 2012 by alan

[renobird]

Alan,

Stumbled across that feature myself. Was super happy when I did.

[ryan]

Thanks for the post Alan. Unless I'm misunderstanding, you shouldn't need to use the 'hidden' at all, as an unpublished page isn't going to be showing up on the front-end site or navigation either way.

[alan]

Ryan, yes! Doh, I also had forgotten/missed the button 'Save + Keep Unpublished'.

I'll go edit my original post. Thanks for putting me straight