Add a "published" attribute to blog posts

[quad]

This would offer an easy way for the author to hide a blog post regardless of the permissions a person has on it. Most blog systems features this functionality already. Plus, while I recognize the exact behavior needs to be defined first, it can be implemented by adding a single attribute to the post.

Some quick specs I can think of:

• The attribute can be toggled by authors and editors.
• It affects all versions of the blog post.
• It's goal is to prevent the blog from being included in the blog page display.
• A checkbox control needs to be added on the blog post edit and creation pages.

It would allow one to post a new message while still preventing it from being displayed on the blog page. The editor could adjust the blog post freely before actually publishing it on the blog, or prepare a message for future publishing.

I understand that the FullBlogPlugin is not meant to be a full-featured web log system, however this feature seems simple enough for the added benefits.

[Ryan J Ollos]

This feature is similar to the existing BlogDraftPlugin. From the project page:

• Sample plugin that implements blog post 'draft' functionality (BlogDraftPlugin.py).

See also #6047.

[osimons]

This "hide-data-until-it-is-ready" is not really something that is natural for a Trac project. Just like wiki, tickets, source code ++; once data is entered it is shared.

However, FullBlogPlugin provides all the hooks needed to hide data using permissions - which is the trick used by the blogdraft plugin that is included as a sample plugin in the source code. It should work well for most circumstances.

Hopefully the plugin can work OK for you?

I'm closing this ticket as 'worksforme' as there is a working solution, and it is not my intention to add much in the way of richer publishing support.