Title: Not saving as draft
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Not saving as draft

 *  [cbaltrusis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cbaltrusis/)
 * (@cbaltrusis)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-saving-as-draft/)
 * We have multiple people submitting articles in our department. After the author
   is complete, they are to set their posts as “Review” status so that a team can
   review the post. When they create a new article and select a custom status of“
   Review” and then press Save Draft button, the article is published anyways. The
   visibility status is set to Public, though the custom status was not configured
   to display as Public. These articles are not ready for public viewing and we 
   thought by setting them as this new custom status, they’d would not actually 
   be published.
 * Also – we created another status (“Formatted”) last week to flag articles that
   were ready for final approval, applied this status to one post, then decided 
   that we’d go with another route for approving articles. We deleted the custom
   status of “Formatted” and found out that the article with that custom status 
   applied was deleted from wordpress. Luckily we had the contents of the article
   saved and we could recreate it, however, this would have really sucked to have
   tagged a ton of articles with a custom status and have them be deleted when the
   custom status is deleted.
 * TLDR: Deleting a custom status will also delete any articles with that custom
   status.
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