Modx articles - published default

Hello modxers!!

I need your help.

I am using Articles for my blog.

When i am writing new article unpublished is default.

Is there any way to make published default?

Thanks

In the System Setting, search for "publish_default" and set that to "Yes".
Note that this applies to all your resources.

There is a system setting that should make all Resources, including Articles Resources, 'Published' by default. This should work. Another possible method would be to write plugin that sets all Resources to Published on save.

Seems that publish_default is not working for articles.

Only for documents weblinks etc

This will require a plugin that sets the state to published if the document is a child of the articles container onBeforeFormSave.

Thanks Jay, i will try this!!!

Cheers

Looking at the Articles code, it appears to save a single new resource directly without invoking any events or calling any MODX processors (though I don't have the current version installed, so that may have changed).

That would explain why the System Setting has no effect.

IIRC, there used to be a System Setting OnSaveResource or OnResourceSave that you could connect a plugin to, but I don't find it any more (if it ever existed) so there may be no way to solve this without hacking the Articles code.

Changing this line in the articles.class.php file:



to this:



would certainly do it.