Sean Killeen

Posted on Jan 3, 2018

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

Problem

Currently, when I look at my dashboard, I see several drafts that I've imported via RSS.

I have "DRAFT", "EDIT", and "DELETE" buttons. Under each post

However, none of those buttons appears to give me the ability to actually publish a post. And unlike authoring this post, when I click "SAVE POST", it appears to revert back to the unpublished post, rather than publishing it.

Anyone know how I can actually get some of these out into the wild?

Solution

The post has a published: false piece in the frontmatter. Change it to true.

Latest comments (32)

David Onuta • Jan 17

This helped, thanks a lot...

Mariusz • Sep 17 '23

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

Roberto Conte Rosito • Dec 28 '22

Old but gold, thank you!

Sean Killeen • Dec 28 '22

Haha, thank you!

Andrés Villarreal • Aug 3 '21

Thanks for this post. This is a hilarious UX blunder

Tirth Patel • Sep 16 '20

Thanks a lot!

Arya • Jul 7 '20

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

Cameron Presley • Jul 6 '20

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

Kevin Boosten • May 18 '20

Haha, thanks for that!

NebulaGraph • Feb 12 '20

Great to find the post and solve my problem!

Guillaume Chevalier • Dec 29 '19

omg, that wasn't obvious at first

Michael Lustig - halfjew22@gmail.com • Sep 22 '19

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)