Rekhu Builder
Drafts and publishing
New pages and articles are made as drafts, previewed with a link anyone can open, and published now or on a date by the people who may.
Drafts first
What Rekhu Builder makes on a WordPress site starts as a draft: a new page, an article, a converted template, a copy of a page. Nobody outside sees it until someone who may publish puts it live. A change to a page that is already live goes another way; see Changes to live pages.
Rekhu itself never decides to publish. It publishes only when a person who may publish asks for it.
The Drafts panel
On the project's Chat tab, the Drafts panel lists the pages and articles waiting on the site. Press Refresh to read the site again. For each draft you can:
- Open it as it will look, through a preview link;
- Publish it, now or on a date, if you may;
- Approve it, if you are a client who may not publish.
Preview links
WordPress's own preview works only for people signed in to WordPress. A Rekhu preview link works for anyone who has it, without a sign-in, so you can send it to a client or a colleague.
- A link from the Drafts panel works for a day. Opening a draft again makes a fresh link, and the draft's earlier links stop working.
- In the chat you can ask for a longer link: 7 days by default, at most 30.
- The page stays a draft. The link is never cached, and search engines are told not to index it.
- When the draft goes live, its preview links stop working.
Show me the drafts you made this week with their preview links.
Preview links need Rekhu Builder 0.9.46 or newer on the site. On multilingual sites with WPML or Polylang, the link opens the draft in its own language.
Publish a draft
- Open the draft from the Drafts panel and check it.
- Press Publish. The panel says in so many words that the page goes live on the site.
- Choose when. Publish now, or schedule it for a date and time in the site's time.
- Open it. Once it is live, the panel links to the live page. A scheduled draft shows the moment it goes live.
You can also ask in the chat:
Publish the Teeth whitening page next Monday at 9:00.
Publishing from the account needs Rekhu Builder 0.9.49 or newer on the site.
After publishing
To put a new page in the menu, ask for it: Rekhu adds a published page or post under an existing menu item, or at the end of a menu, without touching the rest of the menu. A draft is never added to a menu, since its link would show visitors a "page not found".
Who may publish
| Who | Publishing |
|---|---|
| The account owner and people with edit or manage access | Publish and schedule every draft of the project. |
| A client with Publish new pages and articles | Publishes their own new pages and articles, now or on a date. |
| A client without it | Approve instead. The agency gets a notice and publishes it. |
| A reviewer or someone with view access | Reads only. |
A client sees the drafts their own side's chats made. The agency sees every draft of the project. See Clients.
Approve as a client
- Open the draft from the Drafts panel.
- Check it. Not right? Say what should be different in the same chat.
- Press Approve. The panel says the draft is approved and the agency publishes it. The agency gets a notice under the bell.
Drafts from the SEO work
Articles and pages from the SEO plan, and improvements of pages that already rank, also arrive as drafts. Improvements are previewed and published under Chat → Drafts like any other draft. See SEO overview.
Next
- Changes to live pages: changing a page that is already live.
- Clients: who on the client's side may publish.