For bloggers who
use the WordPress CMS platform of course often experience this kind of thing,
that is accidentally hit the "Publish" button when the writing has
not really finished or require re-check before actually published, or it could
be when you want to schedule or
scheduling an article but instead accidentally pressing the publish button that
results in pre-published posts. In WordPress is already equipped with the
"Draft" button to save writing temporarily before publishing, with
this Draft feature you can continue your writing at a later time. But
even if there is a "Draft" button we may still experience errors that
accidentally hit the "Publish" button. This
often happens to me myself and even the most experienced blogger also
accidentally hit the "Publish" button before the time.
To
minimize the error, In this article I will show you how to avoid publishing an
article error in WordPress by creating a confirmation message before the
article is published. Here
I will share two ways: using plugins and manuals.
WHY
DO YOU NEED TO MAKE A PUBLISH CONFIRMATION WRITE?
Publish
confirmation messages are a simple feature but will be very useful for your
blog. This
is actually a confirmation message that appears when you press the
"Publish" button displayed in the form of a pop-up message asking
"Are you sure you want to publish the article now?", And you will be
given two choices to choose Yes or No. This
simple feature is an easy way to resolve writing errors and article publishing
errors on your blog.
Here
are some positive benefits when you apply this to your WordPress site:
This
feature can stop the unintentional article publication.
This
feature will be very useful when you have multiple authors on your site because
each author may not be as studied as other writers.
This
feature can prevent automatic email and article updates to social media. Many
bloggers are integrating social media and their email campaigns with WordPress.
So,
whenever there's a new post, your social media will automatically update, of
course this will be very detrimental to you when an article that has not been
perfectly spread.
Adding
this feature will not affect the usability or performance of your site. This
is just an extra click before publishing a new post.
Those
are some of the positive benefits that you will get when using this way, but
this is not necessary for you to add a publish confirmation message on your
blog. For
example, if you run a blog with a single author and you never have trouble with
unintentional article publication, you may be safe. However,
this feature is highly recommended for WordPress sites with many authors, to
minimize risk.
1.
USING PLUGIN PUBLISH CONFIRM
 |
| Publish Confirm |
Using
the Publish Confirm plugin is the easiest way to enable confirmation messages
for WordPress. This
plugin works well on posts, pages, and even custom post types. And
the interesting thing is that the message will automatically stop appearing
after you actually publish the post, so you do not need to see this pop up
message appear when updating your article.You can also easily modify the
contents of the message to your liking and even you can also tweaked
some lines of code if you are familiar with coding because this plugin has no
settings at all, so when you enable this plugin then plugin will automatically
work.
2.
USING MANUAL WAY WITH CODE
 |
| Confirm Publish Code |
For
this second way it is a bit more complicated and recommended for WordPress
users who are familiar with the code. How
to please copy the code below and paste the file functions.php in your
WordPress theme or on your Child Themes. after
that save and try to make a new post, and try press publish it will pop up
message with the words "Are You Sure Want to Publish this article?".
Those
are two ways you can create a confirmation message before a published article. You
can choose the one that you think is suitable and easy to apply. Hopefully
this article useful for you and good luck.