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Sean Killeen
Sean Killeen

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[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 And unlike authoring this post, when I click "SAVE POST", it appears to revert back to the unpublished post, rather than publishing it.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.

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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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Adnan Siddiqi

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

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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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Belma

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

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Joe Lowrance

Thank you!

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Kevin Gathuku

Thanks for this! I was also expecting to find a Publish button somewhere 😅

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n350071🇯🇵

Great!! Thank you for saving my time!

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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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Julien Lengrand-Lambert

Good one! Thanks

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Arya

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

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NebulaGraph

Great to find the post and solve my problem!