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Unpublish region
Recently I had to create a checkbox in Perch so that a client could "unpublish" a region while retaining its information for later use. This is something that comes standard in Wordpress for pages. I think it would be a great addition to standard Perch functionality, in addition to the "Save as Draft" functionality, there could be an unpublish button that, when clicked, changes the region to a draft.
Did you encounter any problems adding the checkbox?
The idea behind the flexibility of Perch templates is that you don't need us to provide every single feature - you can implement what you need on a per-site basis.
Drew, I totally agree! It wasn't difficult at all. The amazing flexibility of Perch is why I love it so much and use it so often :) Just thought I'd toss the idea in the suggestions forum here. I can think of several scenarios where I wouldn't want a client to be able to unpublish a region, for design reasons. But if it were in the region options maybe, and tied in with the draft functionality, that might be cool.
Ok, thanks.
I looked at this and first thought "drew's absolutely right". But then again it occurred to me that a "hidden" flag on each and every item and every query in the api can be a very handy thing. E.g. when it comes to search or relations. Items that have hidden="1" are simply never output - nowhere.