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[Solved] How can I publish a post in my drafts?

Sean Killeen on January 03, 2018

Problem Currently, when I look at my dashboard, I see several drafts that I've imported via RSS. I have "DRAFT", "EDIT", and "DELETE" b...
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Anish Karandikar •

yup happened to me too. duh! feature request: maybe have a button called "Publish" which explains how to actually publish a draft

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Sean Killeen •

DOH! I missed the published: false in the frontmatter.

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Jakub T. Jankiewicz •

Note that deleting it will not help, it need to be set to true.

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Nicolas Sebastian Vidal •

same here :P !

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Roberto Conte Rosito •

Old but gold, thank you!

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Sean Killeen •

Haha, thank you!

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David Onuta •

This helped, thanks a lot...

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Michael Lustig - halfjew22@gmail.com •

It's weird. At various times throughout my past, I've logged into dev.to with my Twitter and Github respectively. On the account where I logged in with Github, I had a publish button and did not run into this snafu. On the account where I logged in with Twitter, I did run into it, and also have a different UI for publishing posts altogether (with just plain YAML up top and no publish button, just a preview button)

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Michael Lustig - halfjew22@gmail.com • • Edited

Ah! I figured it out. All you have to do is change your editor version.

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Trang Le •

Oh yes, this happened to me, and it took me 15 minutes to discover your post. Thank you.

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Adnan Siddiqi •

Darn, it was so unexpected. As a newbie I was just searching for a button

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Sam Stepanyan •

Publish button is needed - it is a fundamental UX/UI concept! Has somebody raised a feature request already?

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Belma •

Thank you for sharing this tip! I really appreciate it!

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Joe Lowrance •

Thank you!

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n350071πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ •

Great!! Thank you for saving my time!

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Kevin Gathuku •

Thanks for this! I was also expecting to find a Publish button somewhere πŸ˜…

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Hozefa •

Thanks πŸ‘

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Guillaume Chevalier •

omg, that wasn't obvious at first

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NebulaGraph •

Great to find the post and solve my problem!

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Kevin Boosten •

Haha, thanks for that!

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Cameron Presley •

Just ran into this problem myself, why can't we have a button for publishing?

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Arya •

Thanks! I feel stupid now for not noticing it. But that's alright haha!

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Tirth Patel •

Thanks a lot!

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AndrΓ©s Villarreal •

Thanks for this post. This is a hilarious UX blunder

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Rik Schennink •

Thanks! Super helpful :D

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Mariusz •

One of the worst UX I ever encounter!
Thanks for that post though.

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Karan •

THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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JΓ©rΓ©mie Lumbroso •

Gosh, this happened, and 2 mins before a posting deadline! Thank you for the post!

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millan123ta • • Edited

I have given the title but it's still showing that title not be blank? I don't know what happens?

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Eduard Babayan •

Super helpful :)

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Sidd B •

Yup, I also missed the attribute published: false, and was wondering if it gets published automatically after following some process like Editorial approval etc.

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Sanket Maru •

Happened to me too. Thanks for the post.

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Julien Lengrand-Lambert •

Good one! Thanks