The draft page cannot see Customizing Homepage Settings makes Add New Page

[nukaga]

Customizing Homepage Settings → A static page → Add New Page → Save Draft
Pages cannot see the draft page.
I think that it is inconvenient.

[nukaga]

Customizing Homepage Settings → A static page → Add New Page → Save Draft

[nukaga]

Pages have not draft

[westonruter]

You raise an interesting point. Technically the pages created have the auto-draft status, ensuring that they only appear in the context of a set of customized changes. When you do something in the Customizer, it should not have any impact outside the Customizer until you hit Publish. Nevertheless, we don't yet have a core workflow for editing posts and pages in the Customizer (while this is something you can do with the Customize Posts plugin). This is being explored in #39752 and will be a focus when integrations Gutenberg with customization. However, in the mean time I wonder if we should transition posts and pages created in the Customizer to drafts instead of auto-drafts if the changeset is saved as a draft or scheduled. Not only would this allow the user to edit it in the admin, but it would also fix a defect that I realize we didn't get incorporate from Customize Snapshots: when saving a changeset as a draft, the Customize Snapshots plugin will transition any such posts to a customized-draft so that they will not get garbage collected after a week like regular auto-drafts do. So we could do the same in core, to introduce this customized-draft status and then allow this status to appear in the post list tables. When editing such a post or page, we could also include a link to the Customizer to continue editing other changes in the changeset.

@melchoyce thoughts?

[melchoyce]

This is an interesting point, and a flow I hadn't considered.

However, in the mean time I wonder if we should transition posts and pages created in the Customizer to drafts instead of auto-drafts if the changeset is saved as a draft or scheduled.

I think so, yeah — it'll allow folks to draft or schedule changes, and then go and fill in copy before publishing, or going back to make additional customizations.

[westonruter]

Related:

• [40676] for #39715
• [40041] for #39713
• ​https://github.com/xwp/wp-customize-snapshots/pull/135/files
• ​https://github.com/xwp/wp-customize-posts/pull/348/files

[westonruter]

Work in progress PR: ​https://github.com/xwp/wordpress-develop/pull/287

[nukaga]

Thank you for considering it!

[westonruter]

@melchoyce Please review: ​https://github.com/xwp/wordpress-develop/pull/287#issuecomment-337151362

[westonruter]

In 41887:

Customize: Allow post/page stubs to be edited in WP Admin as "customization drafts" when changeset is saved as draft or scheduled.

• Update stubs to have draft status when changeset is saved as draft, instead of preventing auto-draft garbage collection by giving them a far-future post_date.
• Show notice in publish metabox when editing a customization draft indicating that it will be published automatically with its changeset; a link to Customizer is included.
• Include a new "Customization Draft" display post state in the post list table.
• Disconnect stubs from their changesets when they are updated with a status other than "Draft".
• Trash customization drafts when their related changeset is trashed or deleted.
• Add a _customize_changeset_uuid postmeta to stubs to link them with their associated changeset.
• Include customize_changeset_uuid as context when requesting to insert a new auto-draft.

Props westonruter, melchoyce.
See #39896, #39752, #34923.
Fixes #42220.

[westonruter]

In 41892:

Customize: Remove incorrect test assertions for the post_date of customization drafts.

Amends [41887].
See #42220.

[westonruter]

In 42148:

Customize: Ensure customization drafts are published instead of trashed when scheduled changeset goes live while non-admin user is authenticated (such as during WP Cron).

Props designsimply for testing, dlh for testing, melchoyce for testing.
See #28721, #34923, #42220.
Fixes #42489 for trunk.

[westonruter]

In 42149:

Customize: Ensure customization drafts are published instead of trashed when scheduled changeset goes live while non-admin user is authenticated (such as during WP Cron).

Props designsimply for testing, dlh for testing, melchoyce for testing.
See #28721, #34923, #42220.
Fixes #42489 for 4.9.