Overview

Support blog post drafts, as commonly implemented in other blogging platforms.

Background

Drafts will offer certain new features over the current Anonymous / "Draft" feature we have today:

• Full post preview before publishing to a blog (feature request), including:
  • The blog's design
  • MathJax (discuss)
  • Media embeds
• Posts federate and send out via email upon final publish
• Set post slug before publishing (feature request, discuss)
• Schedule posts / set publish date before publishing (T867, feature request)
• Work on multiple drafts without complicated publishing workflows (feature request)

Implementation

• Create a new endpoint at POST /api/collections/{alias}/drafts
• Store posts as content_type = draft
• Drafts can be edited at POST /api/collections/{alias}/drafts/{post-id}
• Drafts can be published at POST /api/collections/{alias}/drafts/{post-id}/publish
  • Alternatively: add new property on existing-post endpoint to publish drafts and change published posts back to drafts
• Drafts should only be viewable by logged-in owner and team (T858: Shared drafts)

UI

Change Posts page to have tabs for Anonymous posts (current) and Drafts. Part of T810: Blog post management section. Allow easy mass management as mentioned in that task.