I'd like to recommend a change to one of the default behaviors in Couch. Currently, when one saves a template or clonable page, it is immediately published. I would much prefer the default state to be "unpublished."
That seems to be the common practice across all sorts of applications, and it makes sense. You edit, preview, make changes, preview again, and when you're finally satisfied you publish your page. Publishing a page should happen only through conscious intent. I would even take it out of the advanced settings tab and add a Publish/Unpublish button alongside the Save button.
For myself and my admins, the very first step in creating a page is to click "unpublished." We've learned that the hard way, but nonetheless we'll sometimes forget and publish an unfinished page while saving our edits.
It may seem like a trivial problem except when posts are automatically posted to social media through RSS and subscribers are fed a strange and incomplete post or a link that leads to nothing. And once Facebook has taken a look at a page, it won't change the thumbnail, title, and description it serves even if the page is updated. It is fairly easy to reset Facebook's cache of this information, but it's a somewhat tedious and esoteric process.
While I'm at it, some sort of autosave feature would be nice, too. Another common head-slapping blunder is to surf away from a page without saving and loose your work.
That seems to be the common practice across all sorts of applications, and it makes sense. You edit, preview, make changes, preview again, and when you're finally satisfied you publish your page. Publishing a page should happen only through conscious intent. I would even take it out of the advanced settings tab and add a Publish/Unpublish button alongside the Save button.
For myself and my admins, the very first step in creating a page is to click "unpublished." We've learned that the hard way, but nonetheless we'll sometimes forget and publish an unfinished page while saving our edits.
It may seem like a trivial problem except when posts are automatically posted to social media through RSS and subscribers are fed a strange and incomplete post or a link that leads to nothing. And once Facebook has taken a look at a page, it won't change the thumbnail, title, and description it serves even if the page is updated. It is fairly easy to reset Facebook's cache of this information, but it's a somewhat tedious and esoteric process.
While I'm at it, some sort of autosave feature would be nice, too. Another common head-slapping blunder is to surf away from a page without saving and loose your work.