Title: Auto Draft
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Auto Draft

 *  [dalewood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dalewood/)
 * (@dalewood)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-draft-1/)
 * Hi
 * I am getting posts titled AUTO DRAFT, even when published and now articles in
   pages are being titled AUTO DRAFT.
 * Please can someone sort this, it is serious, my sanity is in question!
 * Phil

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-draft-1/#post-1553905)
 * Have you tried:
 * – deactivating **all** plugins to see if this resolves the problem? If this works,
   re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
 * – switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems?
 * – [resetting the plugins folder](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F)
   by FTP or phpMyAdmin? Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause
   problems.
 * – re-uploading the wp-admin and wp-includes folders from a **fresh** download
   of WordPress?
 * – increasing the available memory?
    [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/memory-bump/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/memory-bump/)
   [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/253495#post-1017842](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/253495#post-1017842)
 *  [khalladay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khalladay/)
 * (@khalladay)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-draft-1/#post-1553981)
 * Are you using the postMash plugin, and did you recently upgrade to WP 3? Just
   today I found the same problem with one of my blogs, after moving to WP 3 last
   week, and deactivating postMash SEEMS to have helped.
 *  [mitchellk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mitchellk/)
 * (@mitchellk)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-draft-1/#post-1554187)
 * Esmi …. this is a known bug .. it has nothing to do with plugins or anything 
   else, it’s a wordpress 3.0 bug and a very messy one I might add. For SEO this
   is an absolute nightmare because pages called “Auto Draft” keep appearing in 
   the “default” wordpress random pages widget and Search engines keep getting 404
   errors when calling those pages.
 * I’d like to see a REAL solution this very REAL problem without hacking core and
   template files.
 * [http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11889](http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11889)
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-draft-1/#post-1554189)
 * Since my original post, I’ve learnt that it appears to be an issue with the Atahualpa
   theme:
    [http://forum.bytesforall.com/](http://forum.bytesforall.com/)
 *  [mitchellk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mitchellk/)
 * (@mitchellk)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-draft-1/#post-1554190)
 * Hi esmi, I’ve seen posts about that too but I don’t use that theme at all. I 
   did however find a plugin which disables the autosave and revisions feature altogether.
   I’m going with the plugin for now until this get resolved in a future update 
   to 3.0.
 * [http://exper.3drecursions.com/2008/07/25/disable-revisions-and-autosave-plugin/](http://exper.3drecursions.com/2008/07/25/disable-revisions-and-autosave-plugin/)
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-draft-1/#post-1554191)
 * If it’s an issue in 1 theme, it could well be a problem in others.
 *  [mitchellk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mitchellk/)
 * (@mitchellk)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-draft-1/#post-1554192)
 * I think I will have to dig into this a bit more. The above plugin does disable
   the autosave and revisions functions but it does NOT stop WP creating Auto Draft
   pages. I’ll dig into the template code tomorrow and see if I can find a similarity
   between it and atahualpa.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-draft-1/#post-1554193)
 * If you do find something, please let us know so we can pass a possible solution
   onto to others.
 *  [mitchellk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mitchellk/)
 * (@mitchellk)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-draft-1/#post-1554194)
 * I will certainly do that 🙂
 *  [Anthony Butler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abutlwer/)
 * (@abutlwer)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-draft-1/#post-1554218)
 * To delete these pages you need to use a MySQL front end, go to the posts table,
   sort on post_status and all the auto-drafts will come to the top for ease of 
   deletion. Seems to be a WP core problem – every time I login or switch to the
   dashboard page an auto draft is created unless there is one in the posts table
   already. Search Unleashed finds them, which is a further embarrassment, and duplicates
   can be created.
 *  [Anthony Butler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abutlwer/)
 * (@abutlwer)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-draft-1/#post-1554240)
 * If a plugin or theme does not handle these auto draft pages correctly, you need
   to do some PHP coding. Here is the filter I have added to the Misty Look theme’s
   search.php module to get rid of auto draft and trash items that Search Unleashed
   returns incorrectly:
 *     ```
       <?php $p_status = get_post_status( $post );
              if ($p_status != 'trash' and $p_status != 'auto-draft') : ?>
       ```
   
 * Followed later on by:
 *     ```
       <?php else: echo 'One irrelevant ',$p_status,' item not shown here.';
              endif; ?>
       ```
   
 * This sort of change is very easily done if you use the ‘child theme’ facilities
   of WordPress.
 *  [Muhammad Abdullah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/funorang/)
 * (@funorang)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-draft-1/#post-1554247)
 * Yes I solve this problem.. go to wordpress permalink option and change your cuntom
   permalink structure to %postname% to %post_id% this will solve your problem.
 *  [nativemainer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nativemainer/)
 * (@nativemainer)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-draft-1/#post-1554248)
 * For those of you running Postmash, this appears to be a fairly simple fix. Change
   the following line(s) of code in postMash.php:
 *     ```
       //get pages from database
               $pageposts = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_type = 'post' ORDER BY menu_order");
       ```
   
 * to this:
 *     ```
       //get pages from database
               $pageposts = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_type = 'post' and post_status NOT LIKE 'auto-draft' AND post_title NOT LIKE 'Auto Draft' ORDER BY menu_order");
       ```
   
 * This will prevent postMash from finding any auto-draft entries in the wp_posts
   table (including those already eroneously published). If you already have published“
   Auto Draft” posts, either return them to draft status or delete them.
 * Oh, and if you actually want to use postMash with a post titled ‘Auto Draft’ 
   you can ommit “AND post_title NOT LIKE ‘Auto Draft'”
    –Chillin’ in Portland
 *  [rstritmatter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rstritmatter/)
 * (@rstritmatter)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-draft-1/#post-1554317)
 * I’m having the problem with “Lunatic Fringe”
 * [http://www.Shake-speares-bible.com](http://www.Shake-speares-bible.com)
 * It seems to be connected to postmash — every time I use postmash the system generates
   a new auto save. Or something like that.
 * I’ll try Nativemainer’s fix and report back.
 *  [rstritmatter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rstritmatter/)
 * (@rstritmatter)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-draft-1/#post-1554318)
 * So far so good — it looks like nativemainer’s fix is a good.
 * This maybe obvious but for newbies like me, the postmash.php file is in content–
   plugins–postmash file.
 * Thanks!

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