Draft, review, published
The four states a piece of writing can be in, and why yours is probably a draft.
Everything you write is in exactly one of four states, shown as a coloured label at the top of the editor and in every list.
- Draft — you are still working. Nobody outside your team can see it. Everything starts here, always.
- Needs review — you have asked a colleague to look before it goes out. Still invisible to the public.
- Scheduled — finished, and waiting for a date and time you chose.
- Published — live. Anyone can see it.
Why yours is a draft
A new page starts as a draft. Saving it does not publish it. Changes to a page that is already published are different: Save live changes updates the public version.
That is why you need to save a new page before its publishing controls appear. Save draft keeps your work; Publish makes it public. Two steps, on purpose.
Moving between them
Open the page. If you see Edit page, choose All fields & publishing to find the Publishing panel.
- Publish now — live immediately.
- Schedule for later — pick a date and time. See the scheduling lesson.
- Send for review — flags it for a colleague without publishing.
- Take off website — takes something published back off the website. It is not deleted; it is just no longer public.