Every piece of content you plan to publish as a WordPress website owner will likely go through multiple stages of editing. Categorizing all of your posts before (and after) going live will save you and your team a lot of time and stress. One way to do this is with post statuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\ud83d\udc49 Post statuses enable WordPress users to get a better idea of what the workflow status of a post is. Adding a post status allows for simple categorization of your WordPress content before it goes live.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n
Using post status, users can notify WordPress of their content\u2019s current status along the editing workflow of the site. For instance, Draft<\/strong><\/em> is the status saved for incomplete posts. Once the post has been made public, the status is updated to Published<\/strong><\/em>. Plus, there’s a range of statuses in between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Specifying a post status gives WordPress more leeway in how it processes and displays individual blog entries. For instance, drafts won\u2019t show up on the front page or anywhere else that visitors can see by default.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you\u2019re editing a page or post, look for the Publish<\/strong><\/em> meta box in the screen\u2019s upper right corner to change the post status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udc49 WordPress has eight different post statuses, some of which are used more frequently than others. For those who have been using WordPress for some time, you might already know about these three:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udc49 Now that we\u2019ve covered the basics of what is post status in WordPress, let\u2019s go over some other options that you may not be familiar with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Custom post statuses can also be added via themes and plugins, so your WordPress setup can contain more than those mentioned above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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