By Jofaba on

First I just wanted to say, I'm definately glad I chose Drupal. The community support is exactly what I was looking for in a CMS. I've been playing with my site over the past two days (started fresh with 4.7 today) and am really starting to get the hang of things. One simple thing I can't figure out though, and believe me, I spent well over an hour looking it up and watching some of the videos, is what each of the Publishing Options do specifically. In each forum post I found that mentioned them, they explain one or two and then say "etc", and same thing for the Basics I video (which said they'd be talked about later but the following videos skiped).

Thanks in advance. I really appreciate anyones explainations on this. I'd try them out for myself but I'm afraid of messing something up.

JFBartalomy (Jofaba)

Site: www.Jofaba.com/drupal (while under construction)

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dz-1 commented

im only a month or so into drupal, so these aren't a definitive word, but they are my understanding.. perhaps someone else can just say 'correct' to verify i'm not lying to you ;)

Published - Made public to the website, meaning that it can be accessed/viewed by users without any special permissions
In moderation queue - Marked as 'in moderation'. This way administrators can go to 'Administer > Content' and filter by content that has not yet been reviewed/moderated. I don't believe that this switch has any effect on the Published switch directly, in other words you can probably have something published that is still marked for moderation. The goal is to allow admins to know what is left to be reviewed, and after reviewing it they can flag it as 'approved' via the content administration section or by editing the node itself.
Promoted to front page - This node will be published to the front page of the site. If this is not true then the node can still be found via a direct link, corresponding menu option, or that section of the website. Ex: a blog entry that isn't promoted to the front page can still be found in the blogs section.
Sticky at top of lists - forces this node to be at the top of a site section's page. Ex: sticky a blog entry and it will always appear at the top of the blogs section.
Create new revision - creates a new version of this node and stores the old one in a revision history. this is useful for static pages that multiple site members update. it allows you to go back and see older revisions of the post while still displaying the most recent revision.

hope that helps, and i hope i didnt totally misunderstand your question ;)

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Jofaba commented

I had a feeling that was what they meant, but I couldn't find definitive answers. Now I have to figure out what is making my blog entries not get archived for my calender. I was hoping it had to do with one of the publishing options =/

Thanks DZ!