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I was testing the CMA plugin from Realivent last week. I put a page up on the Tucson Real Estate in The News with the CMA plugin on it. The page was supposed to have an introductory paragraph about the CMA, but when I published the page it wasn’t there.
I didn’t have time to look at the code and fix the issue, so I simply set the page back to draft so it wouldn’t show up on the blog. I figured I’d get around to fixing the plugin this past week. I didn’t.
I like Realivent plugins, but I have one complaint. I wish they would make their code W3C compliant. From what I’ve found and fixed on my site it isn’t hard, just old style coding like:
$message = '<B>Request for a CMA</b>';
$message .= ‘<BR><strong>Full Name: </strong> ‘ . $name;
$message .= ‘<BR><strong>Email: </strong> ‘ . $email;
$message .= ‘<BR><strong>Daytime Phone: </strong> ‘ . $phone_day;
$message .= ‘<BR><strong>Evening Phone: </strong> ‘ . $phone_night;
Here is the point. I was on the blog and did a search for CMA to find out where it was mentioned and up popped the CMA Page, that is currently in “Draft” mode.
It appears if you once publish, even if you have set it back to draft, it can be searched and viewed on your blog.
Post Tags: Publish-page-or-post , w3c-compliant , Wordpress-search
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3 responses so far ↓
1 How to hide Pages in wordpress » Realivent Real Estate Technology Blog // Apr 4, 2007 at 10:24 am
[...] Write the page as Draft. This will hide the page from the list of pages in the menu but you can still access the page by search, and the page will be accessible if you type the direct URL to the page. I use this method a lot to provide pages when I do not want them in the menu. I like horizontal menus for my blogs, and if you add too many pages, your menus might start looking bad.Example of hiding with a draft: Real Estate Blog Lab [...]
2 Rocco (1 comments.) // Apr 11, 2007 at 2:12 pm
One thing is for sure. You have to be careful what you write on the internet. Once it is out there it is pretty tough to take back.
3 Dave Smith (540 comments.) // Apr 11, 2007 at 3:53 pm
It has caused me to take a completely different approach to testing. I’ve got a special test site that won’t go to the internet for that kind of thing now.
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