Custom Publishing Options

This module allows you to create custom publishing options for nodes. It allows you to add to the default options of Publish, Promote to Front Page, and Sticky. It also ingrates with views to allow you add as a field, sort and filter by, your custom options.

It now allows each of the different options to be shown only on selected node types, as well as integration with Actions. Custom Publishing Options also have granular permissions per role, per option.

Using Custom Publish Options

A simple use case for this module would be creating an 'Archive' publish option on nodes. This would add an 'archive' property to the node under the Publishing options. Setting the node as Archived would allow you to then create sections with Views, and filter by nodes that have a status of Archive. Now that content is marked 'Archived', which you can use in Views or Solr to demote it from search relevancy but still have it available to users instead of unpublishing it, which removes it from the site entirely and makes it inaccessible.

Custom Publishing Options was featured as part of Lullabot's Module Monday.