Title: Already-published "Drafts?"
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Already-published "Drafts?"

 *  [datinginfoforsingles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/datinginfoforsingles/)
 * (@datinginfoforsingles)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/already-published-drafts/)
 * On the Posts page of my blog, at the top I see “Drafts (2).” Clicking it shows
   two “drafts,” both of which have already been published (one on 2011/07/11).
 * I thought Drafts were unpublished posts, so I don’t understand why two published
   posts are showing up in “Drafts.”
 * Clicking on one of the Drafts, I see an option to “Publish immediately” on the
   right, but not to mark it as already published.

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 *  [brgdzr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brgdzr/)
 * (@brgdzr)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/already-published-drafts/#post-4545394)
 * Are the published posts also shown? In which case, could you just delete the ‘
   drafts’?
 *  [Peninah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/highlight_creative/)
 * (@highlight_creative)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/already-published-drafts/#post-4545395)
 * Is it possible you’ve got doubles by mistake?
    Check the permalinks/slugs to 
   see if they’re identical or slightly different.
 * If they’re different, you can just delete the ones that are drafts.
    If they’re
   identical, then something weird is going on 🙂

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 * [published](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/published/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Peninah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/highlight_creative/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/already-published-drafts/#post-4545395)
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