id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	focuses
39896	Customizer: Allow users to Draft changes before Publishing	melchoyce	westonruter	"Inspired by drafting and revisions in the [https://wordpress.org/plugins/customize-snapshots/ Customize Snapshots plugin], the button design in [https://github.com/xwp/wp-customize-posts/issues/207 Customize Posts], and Press This, I want to propose a way to allow users to draft changes in the Customizer.

This introduces a split button to the Customizer that lets you toggle between ""Publish"" and ""Save Draft."" 

This would pair nicely with the Revisions mockups introduced in #21666, but doesn't depend on it. 

Drafting would be helpful if you're setting up your site, or making some big changes, and you don't want to publish them just yet. With drafting, you can leave and come back to the Customizer later to finish making your changes.

If you leave the Customizer without saving a draft or publishing your changes, the next time you enter the Customizer, you'll get a notice asking if you want to restore the autosave.

In future iterations, once Revisions is built, we'll explore adding the ability to have multiple drafts of pending changes. Also related is the ability to schedule the changes for publishing (#28721).

Related: #31089, #39841"	enhancement	closed	high	4.9	Customize		normal	fixed	has-patch needs-testing needs-unit-tests ui-feedback has-dev-note		ui