Require Unpublish Date

[mrjarbenne]

We use this plugin to allow users to Unpublish content on our Announcements site.

https://github.com/humanmade/Unpublish

Although it's there, many users don't bother to set a date, leaving the Announcement admin having to clean up old posts. Requiring an Unpublish date would be amazing.

[mrjarbenne]

I meant to mention that in order for this to work, we will need to use the Required Fields branch.

https://github.com/fusioneng/publishing-checklist/pull/33

[r-a-y]

Got some follow-up questions:

• Are these requirements only for certain sites (the Announcements site) or does this need to be enabled network-wide?
• Are requirements only needed for the 'post' post type?

[mrjarbenne]

Not network enabled: only for our announcement set up.

Required for the 'slides' post type.

Currently unpublish is the only requirement.

[r-a-y]

I've written a small plugin called "Announcements Publishing Checklist".

Activate it on the sites you need to use it on and ensure that both "Publishing Checklist" and "Unpublish" plugins are activated. Next, try creating a slide and see if the checklist works as expected.

I tried this locally on the 'post' type and it works.

[mrjarbenne]

Do I need the Fusion Publishing Checklist, or just yours and Unpublish.

If the Fusion one, is it the "required fields" branch?

[r-a-y]

You need to install Fusion's "Publishing Checklist" plugin (using the required-fields branch) as well as "Unpublish" and the newly-created "Announcements Publishing Checklist" plugin.

[mrjarbenne]

It looks right, but I'm still able to get the slide published without an UnPublish Date.

You can find it up and running here: https://announcementstemplate.commons.hwdsb.on.ca/wp-admin

[r-a-y]

I think the issue is the required-fields branch is only optimized for the 'post' post type.

Let me look into this a bit more.

[r-a-y]

Okay, should work now. Forgot to sync up my changes to production!

Can you try again and let me know if it works?

[mrjarbenne]

Now the button defaults to Submit for Review, and even though I've met the requirements, the post goes as Draft, not Published.

[r-a-y]

Try a new post.

You have to set the Unpublish date, then hit "Submit for Review" and then hit "Publish" again.

That's the way the Publishing Checklist required-fields branch works at the moment.

[mrjarbenne]

Ok. I see that now.

https://github.com/fusioneng/publishing-checklist/pull/33#issuecomment-186585382

It would be nice if the button could be changed to say something like "Check Requirements", then Publish. Submit for Review makes it seem like perhaps we have ripped the ability to publish away from users.

[r-a-y]

I've added a JS snippet that dynamically switches out the "Submit for Review" label for "Check Requirements".

Let me know if that is okay with you. I'll comment on that PR once we like these changes.

[mrjarbenne]

That's perfect. Now I just need to find a way to replace the clunky datepicker in Unpublish with something a bit more user friendly. Maybe this one: https://wordpress.org/plugins/publish-date-datepicker/

[mrjarbenne]

New Issue: https://github.com/hwdsbcommons/HWDSB-Commons/issues/116

Closing this as solved. Looks great.

[mrjarbenne]

With the Announcements Publishing Checklist plugin active, the Slides post type can no longer be scheduled to be published in the future.

[r-a-y]

That's a side effect of using the Publishing Checklist plugin.

You first have to complete all required tasks. In our case, set an Unpublish date and hit "Check Requirements". This should fulfill the requirements and you'll have access to the Publish field again where you can set the publish date into the future.