The date stays saved in case you want to set it back to non-draft. It should not publish though, because scheduled posts have a status of “future”, not “draft”. The event that fires to publish that post makes certain that it has that status, it won’t auto-publish drafts.
The relevant function, if you’re interested, is check_and_publish_future_post.
Hmm, thanks for your reply, Otto.
I wasn’t really asking for support, simply making – this is the purpose of this forum after all – a friendly feedback. It’s true I don’t post positive feedback, only negative, but my point was not to complain, I view it as constructive criticism 🙂
In the same manner, I would like to add another form of feedback: once a post has been scheduled to another date than “RIGHT NOW” (you see the idea ^^), it becomes impossible, apparently, to remove all scheduling from the post.
That’s happening to me on the occasion, I have a post that is scheduled to a date, but finally I want to post it “now”.
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“argh, how does that work, must I input the current date and hour ?“
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and, eventually, I end up copy-pasting the html of the post into a brand newly created post, this way I’m sure it’s getting posted right now.
(once again: not a support question, simply providing feedback about something that could perhaps, in my own POV, be improved)
Yes, if you have changed the post time, then in order to post it “now”, then you have to change the post time back to “now”.
When you set something, then it remembers the fact that you set it. If it forgot what you explicitly changed, then that would be rather weird behavior.
Well, still, at the present time, the only option is to schedule it “in a minute or two” to be sure it will be published in the very short term.
My suggestion is a “now” option/button/link.
Or, second option, a way of removing all scheduling things and do as if we were creating the post anew.
(not ranting, Otto. Trying to be constructive 🙂 I always viewed these elements as weird and counter-intuitive, maybe it’s just me of course, but maybe you’re just so used to it you stopped seeing this as an oddity that could be improved ?)
